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Tanya Tiffany

Curriculum Vitae

Tanya Tiffany

Assistant Professor
Department of Art History
Ph. D., Johns Hopkins University

Office: Mitchell Hall 147D
Phone: (414) 229-5015
E-mail: tiffanyt@uwm.edu
Office Hours: Thursday, 12:15 - 1:15pm and by appointment


Tanya Tiffany teaches Italian and Spanish art from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Her research focuses on artistic theory and practice in Golden-Age Spain. In recent articles, she has analyzed the role of images in religious devotion and intellectual discourse, and her latest research considers issues of gender and race in Spanish art. She is currently writing a book on Diego Velzquez's early career, in which she investigates the painter's close but critical engagement with the artistic, religious, and social practices of his native Seville.

Teaching Experience:

2004 - Present   University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art
2002 - 2004   Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX Haakon Fellow in Art History. Nationally competitive fellowship awarded to one candidate on even-numbered years. Included one year of research and one year teaching at Southern Methodist University.
2001   Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Instructor, "Painting and Society in Golden Age Spain." Dean's Teaching Fellowship awarded to design and teach the course.

Education:

2003   Ph. D. in History of Art, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Dissertation: "Interpreting Velzquez: Artistic Innovation and Painted Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Seville."
1997   M.A. in History of Art, Johns Hopkins University.
1995   B.A. with Honors and Distinction in Art History and Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Academic year abroad with UW's program at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.

Fellowships and Honors:

2006-2007   Center for 21st Century Studies Research Fellowship, UW-Milwaukee
2002-2004   Haakon Fellowship in Art History, Southern Methodist University
2002   Roth Travel Fellowship, Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
2001-2002   Carol Bates Curatorial Fellowship, Department of Renaissance and Baroque Art, Waters Art Museum
2001-2002   Walter Read Hovey Fellowship, Pittsburgh Foundation
1999-2000   Metropolitan Museum of Art Theodore Rousseau Fellowship for research in European museums
1998-1999   Fulbright grant for research in Seville. Extension for research in Madrid. Summer 2000
1998   Fellowship from the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education and Culture and United States' Universities
1998   Singleton Fellowship for a semester at Johns Hopkins's Villa Spelman, Florence
1995   University of Wisconsin-Madison Dean's Fellowship. Awarded to four outstanding members of the graduating class.
1995   Mark Mensink Honors Award from the Honors Program, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tuition grant awarded for senior honors thesis, "Velzquez, Venice, and the Court of Philip IV."
1995   Phi Beta Kappa, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Publications:

  • "Visualizing Devotion in Early Modern Seville: Velázquez’s Christ in the House of Martha and Mary," Sixteenth Century Journal, 32, no. 2 (2005): 433-53.
  • "El Cristo en casa de Marta y María de Velázquez: Una nueva lectura," in Symposium Internacional Velázquez: Actas, ed. Alfredo J. Morales (Seville: Junta de Andalucía, 2004), 95-108.
  • "Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652: Saint Paul the Hermit, ca. 1638," catalogue entry in Masterpieces of Italian Painting: The Walters Art Museum, ed. Morten Steen Hansen and Joneath A. Spicer (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, 2005), 146.
  • Review of Velázquez’s "Las Meninas," ed. Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt, Seventeenth-Century News, 61, nos. 3-4 (2003): 342-45.
  • Review of The Cambridge Companion to Velázquez, ed. Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt, Seventeenth-Century News, 61, nos. 1-2 (2003): 117-20.
  • "Velázquez’s Bodegones and the Art of Emulation," in progress.
  • Envisioning Velázquez: Painting and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Seville, in progress.

Papers Presented

  • "New Approaches to Caravaggism," panel co-organizer. Panel includes my paper, "Imitating Nature and Destroying Painting: Debates on Caravaggio in Seventeenth-Century Spain." Renaissance Society of America Conference, San Francisco. Scheduled for March 2006.
  • "Velzquez's Bodegones and the Art of Emulation" (revised version, in preparation for publication), Early Modern Studies Group, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 2005.
  • "Servitude and Salvation in Velzquez's Supper at Emmaus," Congress of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Charleston. 2005.
  • "Velzquez, Caravaggio, and Artistic Competition," Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Annual Meeting, Toronto. 2004.
  • "Gender and Holiness in Velzquez's Mother Jernima de la Fuente," Congress of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Los Angeles. 2004.
  • Invited speaker, "Velzquez's Bodegones and the Art of Emulation," Art History Lecture Series, Meadows Museum, Dallas. 2004.
  • Invited speaker, "Velzquez in Seville: Religious Paintings and Theological Discourse," Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 2003.
  • Invited speaker, "Ribera's 'Horrifying Things,'" Spanish Master Drawings from Dutch Collections Symposium, Meadows Museum, Dallas. 2003.
  • "Beauty and Devotion in Diego Velzquez's Virgin of the Immaculate Conception," Renaissance Society of America Conference, Toronto. 2003.
  • "Diego Velzquez and Carmelite Spirituality in Seville," Congress of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Madrid. 2003.
  • "Jusepe de Ribera and the Art of Invention," Curatorial Colloquium, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2002.
  • "El Cristo en casa de Marta y Mara de Velzquez: Una nueva lectura," Symposium Internacional Velzquez, Seville. 1999.
  • "Francisco Pacheco's 'Crcel Dorada del Arte': Italian Art Theory in Golden Age Seville," Johns Hopkins's Villa Spelman, Florence. 1998.

MUSEUM TALKS:

  • Lecture on The Draughtsman's Contract, Film Series, Milwaukee Art Museum. 2005.
  • "Velzquez's Early Works," Art in Context Lecture Series, Meadows Museum, Dallas. 2004.
  • "Spanish Paintings in the Meadows Museum," Meadows Museum, Dallas. 2004.
  • "El Greco's Saint Francis and Jusepe de Ribera's Saint Paul the Hermit," The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2002.
  • "Jusepe de Ribera's Etching of the Drunken Silenus (1628)," Baltimore Museum of Art. 2001.
  • "Anthony van Dyck's Frederik Hendrik, Prince of Orange (1631/32)," Baltimore Museum of Art. 2001.

   
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