Professor
Bruce Redford
Boston University
Language and literary scholar; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
2002
Professor of Art History and English, Director of University Professors program, Boston University. Work explores visual and literary culture of Baroque and Enlightenment Europe. Particular interest include the Grand Tour, the history of the classical tradition, and relations between poetry and painting. Awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Gallery of Art, and the National Endowment of Humanities. Book titles include Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England, Designing the Life of Johnson: The Lyell Lectures, and Venice and the Grand Tour. Curatorial work includes Grecian Taste and Roman Spirit at the J. Paul Getty Museum and The Measure of Ruins: Dilettanti in the Levant
at Harvard University's Houghton Library. Current work studies the swagger portrait.
at Harvard University's Houghton Library. Current work studies the swagger portrait.
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