Bret Rothstein | Faculty
Associate Professor, Department of History of Art
E-mail: brothste@indiana.edu
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Education
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests
- Northern European art of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries
- Early modern conceptions of visual wit
- Varieties and consequences of interpretive competency
Selected Publications
- “Looking the part: ruminative viewing and the imagination of community in the early modern Low Countries,” Art History 31:1 (2008), pp. 1-32
- “Gender and the configuration of early Netherlandish devotional skill,” in: A.G. Pearson, ed. The Face of Gender: Portraiture and Constructions Female Identity in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2008), pp. 15-34
- “Movable feasts of reason: description, intelligence, and the excitation of sight,” in C. Göttler, ed. Spirits Unseen: The Representation of Subtle Bodies in Early Modern European Culture (Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies, vol. 9) (Brill, 2008), pp. 47-70
- “The rule of metaphor and the play of the viewer in the Hours of Mary of Burgundy,” in: R.L. Falkenburg and W.S. Melion, eds. Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Brepols, 2007), pp. 237-275
- Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Grants and Honors
- Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University, 2008
- Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2006-2007
- Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship, 1996
- J. William Fulbright Fellowship, 1995-1996
