The College of Arts and Sciences

Email: lsdixon@syr.edu

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Art & Music Histories
308 E Bowne Hall
Phone: 315-443-5031

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• Laurinda Dixon CV

Laurinda Dixon

Professor of Art History, Director of Graduate Studies

Research and Teaching Interests

Laurinda Dixon, a professor at Syracuse University since 1982, teaches a variety of courses, from the large, introductory Arts & Ideas lecture to specialized graduate seminars. Her scholarly specialty is the relationship of art and science before the Enlightenment, and she lectures widely on the subject at Universities and Museums throughout the world.

Education

Ph. D. Department of Art History, Boston University, 1980

Courses

Undergraduate 
Arts & Ideas (Survey of Art History, Paleolithic to contemporary),
Masterpieces of Art, 15th-Century Northern Ren., 16th-Century Northern Ren.,
Ancient Art, Women in Art, Art and Music in the 19^th  Century

Graduate

Art and Science in the Renaissance, Renaissance Iconography, Albrecht Dürer, Primary Sources for Renaissance Artists,
Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Art and the Medici, Romanticism, Women and Art in Early Modern Europe,
Jan Van Eyck, Interchanges:  Art and Music




Selected Articles/Book Chapters

"Emmanuel Fremiét's Gorilla Carrying Off a Woman: Beauty, the Beast, and Their Contexts," in Laurinda Dixon and Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, eds., Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Art, in press (University of Delaware, 2008)




Books

	Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Art, co-editor with Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, in press (University of Delaware Press, 2008)
	In Sickness and In Health:  Disease as Metaphor in Art and Popular Wisdom, editor (University of Delaware Press, 2004)
	Bosch:  Arts and Ideas  (Phaidon Publishers, 2003)
	Perilous Chastity: Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine  (Cornell University Press, 1995)
(NO IMAGE)	Alchemical Imagery in Bosch’s “Garden of Delights” (UMI Press, 1981)