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Professor Pamela Jones Pamela Jones is a specialist in Italian art of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with particular interests in art and religious culture, the reception of art, patronage and collecting, and art theory and criticism. She has received grants from such organizations as the Kress Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Humanities. She is the author of the book Federico Borromeo and the Ambrosiana: Art Patronage and Reform in Seventeenth-Century Milan (Cambridge University Press, 1993; Italian translation by Vita e Pensiero, Milan, 1997). In 1998, she edited an issue of the Art Journal entitled The Reception of Christian Devotional Art: The Renaissance to the Present, and in 2002 she co-edited the volume From Rome to Eternity: Catholicism and the Arts in Italy, ca. 1550 to 1650 with Thomas Worcester (E.J. Brill). Jones has recently co-curated two exhibitions that examine old master paintings in their original stylistic, religious, and social contexts: Saints and Sinners: Caravaggio and the Baroque Image (McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 1999) and Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500 to 1800 (Worcester Art Museum, 2005). Jones’s new book entitled Altarpieces & Their Viewers in the Churches of Rome from Caravaggio to Guido Reni (2008) is now available from Ashgate. She and Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr. are currently preparing editions of Federico Borromeo’s De pictura sacra and Musaeum Bibliothecae Ambrosianae for Harvard University Press’s I Tatti Renaissance Library. In 1995 Professor Jones was inducted into the Accademia di S. Carlo in Milan. She has served on the Program Committee and Gordon Prize Committee of the Renaissance Society of America, and is currently serving a five-year term as a Corporator of the Worcester Art Museum. She is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the Ambrosiana Foundation. |
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