Benjamin David
Associate Professor of Art History
Tuesdays 1:15-2:15 pm, Fridays 11:30-12:30 pm and by appointment
Benjamin David specializes in Italian art from 1300-1600, with an emphasis on Early Renaissance painting. His scholarship and teaching engage the historical and theoretical implications of the practice of narrative in Renaissance art and theories of narrative more generally. He is especially interested in the relationship between art and literature. Other research projects and courses explore the complex nature of the Renaissance engagement with classical antiquity and visualizations of Dante’s Divine Comedy from the fourteenth century to the present day. He is also interested in how contemporary art creates dialogues with Renaissance and Medieval Art and in the intersections of art history and theories of memory.
Academic Credentials
PhD 1999, MA 1993 Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, BA 1991 New York University
Teaching
Core 106, 107 Exploration and Discovery
Art 100 European and North American Art
Art 208 Ancient Art
Art 301 Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture
Art 333 Dante and the Visual Arts
Art 401 American Art After 1945
Art 493 Senior Art History Thesis Seminar
Art 451 Special Topics in Art History (Recent topics include: Visual Narrative, Botticelli, Art History and Memory)
Location: Fields Hall
Classics is located in room 2nd Floor of J.R. Howard Hall on the Undergraduate Campus.
MSC: 45
email clas@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7450
Department Chair Gordon Kelly
Classics
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road MSC 45
Portland OR 97219