William Hood is an art historian and the Mildred C. Jay Professor of Art Emeritus at Oberlin College

Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...

, where he taught from 1974 through 2007. Since January 2008 Professor Hood has been teaching this history of Italian Renaissance Art in Columbia University's Department of Art History and Archaeology.

Research

His research interests center around Italian Renaissance art, as well as the art of 17th and 18th century France, Italy, and Spain. He has published on a variety of subjects in Renaissance and Baroque art. His book, Fra Angelico at San Marcohttp://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300057342, published by Yale University Press

Yale University Press

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, won the 1993 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award, the 1994 Eric Mitchell Prize and was a finalist in the Premio Salimbeni Competition in Italy. His book-in-progress is entitled Made Men: Afterlives of the Classical Nude.

Education and scholarship

Professor Hood received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. at the University of Georgia

University of Georgia

The University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...

. He did his doctoral work at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1977.

He has taught at Oberlin College

Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...

 since 1974 and holds the endowed Mildred C. Jay professorship in art history

Art history

Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...

. He is a fellow

Fellow

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 at the American Academy in Rome

American Academy in Rome

The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo in Rome.- History :In 1893, a group of American architects, painters and sculptors met regularly while planning the fine arts section of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...

, as well as the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at the Villa I Tatti

Villa I Tatti

Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies is a research institute in Florence, Italy.-History:Villa I Tatti is located on an estate of olive groves, vineyards and gardens on the border of Florence and Fiesole...

http://www.itatti.it/ in Florence

Florence

Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

, where he held two visiting professorships from 1989-90 and from 1999-2000.

He is also a 2005 recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon

Andrew W. Mellon

Andrew William Mellon was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932.-Early life:...

 fellowship

Fellow

A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes. It is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is often part of an elite group of learned people who are awarded...

 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...

in New York City. http://www.metmuseum.org/education/fellowship_awards05_06.htm

External links

1. Publisher Page for Fra Angelico at San Marco

2. Oberlin College "Faculty Expert" Page

3. Professor Hood at Columbia University

4. William Hood Fine Arts