J.R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and the History of Art; PhD, Harvard University
B.A. Princeton, 1959. Rhodes Scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, 1959-61. Ph.D., History of Art, Harvard University, 1969. Assistant Professor and Associate Professor, History of Art, Harvard University, 1868-75. Professor, Humanities Center and History of Art, Johns Hopkins University, 1975-2017. Numerous books including Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot, Art and Objecthood: Essaysand Reviews, Manet’s Modernism, The Moment of Caravaggio, What Was Literary Impressionism?, French Suite: A Book of Essays, and others. Four books of poems, most recently Promesse du Bonheur. Delivered Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 2002 (on Caravaggio). Member American Philosophical Society. Corres–ponding member British Academy. Member of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres.
Current Interests: Art Criticism. Art History, Poetry, Literature