Assistant Curator of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art at the Walters Art Museum
jbriggs@thewalters.org
Jo Briggs' published research spans various nineteenth-century topics including the work of the Austrian genre painter Franz von Defregger, David Wilkie's orientalist Bible paintings and Paul Gavarni's caricatures of London life. Her current projects are a focus show on the watercolors of Léon Bonvin (1834-1866), and a larger exhibit on the Scottish Colorists. She is also planning further work on Paul Gavarni to coincide with the 150th anniversary of his death in 2016. MORE INFO »
Senior Curator at Large and Director of the Archives
wjohnston@thewalters.org
In 1966, William R. Johnston joined the staff of the Walters Art Museum as assistant director. Previously, he had served as general curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1964-66) and as curator of the Robert Lehman Collection, New York (1962-63). He received his MA at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, in 1963 and a fellowship in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1962. Over the years, he has held various positions at the Walters including chief curator, associate director and senior curator at large as well as director of the archives and has organized, or co-organized, numerous exhibitions devoted to 18th and 19th century European paintings, sculpture and decorative arts and American paintings. He is the author of "William and Henry Walters; The Reticent Collectors, Baltimore," Presently, William Johnston is curator emeritus at large and is engaged in cataloguing the Jean M. Riddell collection of Russian enameled silver and the Olga Pertzoff collection of ethnic jewelry.
Associate Curator of Islamic Art and Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum
alandau@thewalters.org
Amy Landau is Associate Curator of Islamic Art and Manuscripts. Landau received her PhD from the Department of Islamic Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, in 2007. She is currently working on an international loan exhibition on the art of the Islamic manuscript. Her other exhibitions include Poetry and Prayer; The Art of the Writing Instrument from Paris to Persia (2011); Cairo's Ben Ezra Synagogue (2012) and Views of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul (2014). Amy's research explores shifts in the visual culture of early modern Iran, with particular emphasis on interaction between Safavid Persia and Europe and the Armenian merchant community of New Julfa. Landau teaches in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. MORE INFO »
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Quincy Scott Curator of Asian Art at the Walters Art Museum
rmintz@thewalters.org
Mintz has explored topics ranging from Japanese medieval narrative paintings and Chinese legends to contemporary institutional architecture and the post-pop avant-garde in Asia. His most recent publication, Japanese Cloisonné Enamels (2009) accompanies a 2010 exhibition of the same name. Today his research focuses on issues arising from the interrelationship of Chinese and Japanese works of art with an emphasis on products of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. MORE INFO »
Assistant Curator of Ancient Art at the Walters Art Museum
mnichols@thewalters.org
Nichols is interested in relationships between image and text in antiquity, as well as in contexts for the display of classical art across a range of periods. Recent publications discuss ancient Roman domestic decor and the moral discourse of luxury, similarities in the authorial personae of Horace and Vitruvius, and the reception history of plaster cast replicas of classical art. She is currently working on the upcoming exhibition, "Secrets of the Universe: The Egyptian Book of the Faiyum." MORE INFO »
Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Walters Art Museum
wnoel@thewalters.org
Since January 1999, Dr. Noel has directed an international program to conserve, image and study the Archimedes Palimpsest, the unique source for three treatise by the ancient Greek mathematician. He has co-written a popular account of the project, entitled "The Archimedes Codex". The Department of Manuscripts is currently in the process of creating fully cataloged digital surrogates of its manuscripts under a creative commons license. MORE INFO »
The James A. Murnaghan Curator of Renaissance and Baroque Art at the Walters Art Museum
jspicer@thewalters.org
Spicer is working to create a major international loan exhibition, Saints, Slaves and Diplomats: The African Presence in Renaissance Europe. The exhibition is opening in the fall of 2012, with support for the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is also writing a publication on the Walters' Chamber of Wonders. Her other current research interests include: Italian spalliera 15th century paintings in the Walters (including the Walters' famous Ideal City painting), the social role and symbolism of the rapier, and the role of the study "from life" in the observational sciences and art of the Renaissance. MORE INFO »
Director of the Walters Art Museum
gvikan@thewalters.org
An internationally known medieval art scholar, Dr, Vikan has curated a number of the most significant exhibitions in the museum's history, including Gates of Mystery: The Art of Holy Russia (1992) and African Zion: The Sacred Art of Ethiopia (1993). Trained as a Byzantinist, he has published and lectured extensively on topics as varied as early Christian pilgrimage, medicine and magic, icons, the Shroud of Turin and Elvis Presley. His most recent book, Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Art, will be published in 2010 by Dumbarton Oaks; he is currently working on a book-length study entitled Pilgrimage to Graceland. MORE INFO »
