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Kim Butler Associate Professor CAS | ART | Art

Additional Positions at AU
MA Director, Art History
Degrees
PhD, History of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, Johns Hopkins University
MA, History of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, Johns Hopkins University
BA, Classics, Harvard University

Languages Spoken
Italian
Latin, French and German (reading proficiency)
Bio
Professor Butler (PhD with distinction Johns Hopkins University 2003, BA with honors, Harvard University 1992) is Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History in 国产小呦女 in the Art Department. Having completed a book manuscript on Raphael鈥檚 Madonnas and having published several articles on 鈥楬igh Renaissance鈥 artists including Raphael and Michelangelo, her research focuses on Early Modern Art in the contexts of Italian humanism, gender, and theology. Professor Butler鈥檚 methodological interests include formalism, iconology, social history, gender studies, and semiotics and鈥攎ore broadly鈥攊ntellectual history and interdisciplinarity.
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • ARTH-205 Renaissance Perspectives

  • ARTH-205 Renaissance Perspectives

  • ARTH-403 Italian Art: Late Renaissance

Spring 2025

  • ARTH-205 Renaissance Perspectives

  • ARTH-205 Renaissance Perspectives

  • ARTH-307 International Baroque Art

Partnerships & Affiliations

  • Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference
    Member (2002-present)

  • Renaissance Society of America
    Member (2002-present)

  • College Art Association
    Member (2000-present)

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

See CV for full list.

Work In Progress

Book Manuscripts:

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  • From Poetry to Thievery: Raphael鈥檚 Madonnas (complete, under review)
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  • Poetic Theology in the Sistine Chapel (second project begun, chapter excerpts in press)

Articles:

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  • 鈥淧ainted Tondi and Devotional Practices in Renaissance Florence,鈥 journal article.
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  • 鈥淧ious Histories in the Piccolomini Library,鈥 journal article.

Professional Presentations

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  • 鈥淭ranslating Word to Image: the Sistine Ceiling,鈥 guest lecture, CMRS, Ohio State University, May 2008.
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  • 鈥淐onstructing Pius Aeneas in Pinturicchio鈥檚 Piccolomini Library Frescoes in Siena,鈥 paper delivered at the annual Renaissance Society of America Conference, Piccolomini papacy session, Miami, April 2007.
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  • 鈥淩aphael and Giovanni Santi,鈥 guest lecture Raphael: from Urbino to Rome exhibition opening, National Gallery, London, November 2004.
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  • 鈥淩aphaels Madonnas and the Triumph of Eros?,鈥 paper delivered at the annual Renaissance Society of America Conference, Representing Eros: The Arts of Love in Italy (1420-1520) session, New York, April 2004.
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  • 鈥淭he Problem of Metaphor in the Sistine Ceiling,鈥 guest lecture, University of Pennsylvania, March 2003.
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  • 鈥淩aphael: From Poetry to Thievery,鈥 guest lecture, University of Vermont, April 2003.
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  • 鈥淧oetic Metaphor and the Legacy of Savonarola: Madonna Paintings in Early Sixteenth-Century Florence,鈥 paper delivered at the annual Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Vasari and Savonarola:Method, Theory and Approaches session, San Antonio, October 2002.
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  • 鈥淭he Canonical Woman in Renaissance Culture: Raphael鈥檚 Madonnas,鈥 paper delivered at the College Art Association conference, Symbolic Woman II session, Philadelphia, February 2002.
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  • 鈥淩aphael, Giovanni Santi, and Quattrocento Sculpture,鈥 closed roundtable Raphael symposium, National Gallery of Art, London, November 2002.
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  • 鈥淩ethinking Early Raphael,鈥 Conference Raffaello - pluralit脿 e unit脿, Bibliotheca Hertziana/Max-Planck-Institut and the Instituto di Norvegia, Rome, May 2002.

Selected Publications

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  • 鈥淭he immaculate body in the Sistine Ceiling,鈥 Art History, vol. 32, issue 2, April 2009.
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  • 鈥淕iovanni Santi, Raphael, and Quattrocento Sculpture,鈥 Artibus et Historiae, no. 59 (XXIX), June 2009.
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  • 鈥淩affaello ed I pittori della Cronaca Rimata di Giovanni Santi,鈥 Raffaello e Urbino exh. cat. (Urbino, Palazzo Ducale Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 5 April-12 July), Electa, April 2009.
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  • 鈥淭he Eloquent Image in the Sistine Chapel,鈥 Charles Dempsey Festschrift: Accademia Dempsiana, ed. M. Schlitt, University of Toronto Press, 2009.
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  • 鈥淩eddita lux est: Raphael and the Pursuit of Eloquence in Leonine Rome,鈥 in The Renaissance Court Artist: Design in Theory and Production, eds. A. Chong and S.J. Campbell Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Art, distributed by University of Chicago Press, 2004: 138-148. [volume reviewed in Renaissance Quarterly spring 2006: 243-4].
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  • 鈥淩iconsiderando il primo Raffaello,鈥 in Accademia Raffaello Atti e studi, no. 1, January 2006: 63-88.