Curators at the Walters Art Museum
- Martina Bagnoli
- Robert and Nancy Hall Associate Curator of Medieval Art
- Bagnoli is currently working on an international loan exhibition on medieval reliquaries, provisionally titled, A Matter of Faith; Relics and Reliquaries in the Middle Ages, co-organized with the Cleveland Museum of Art and with the participation of the Vatican Museums and the British Museum. Martina has taught widely in regional universities and is presently adjunct Associate Professor in the department of History of Art at the Johns Hopkins University.
- Amy Landau
- Assistant Curator in the Dept. of Manuscripts and Rare Books
- Landau's recent publications include 'Adaptation of Religious Iconography in Seventeenth-Century Iran: the Case of Bethlehem Church', in W. Floor and E. Herzig (eds.), Iran and the World in the Safavid Age, London (in press) and 'From Poet to Painter: Allegory and Metaphor in a Seventeenth-Century Persian Painting by Muhammad Zaman, Master of Farangi-Sazi (the Europeanized Style)', in Muqarnas. An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, volume 28, due out in 2011. Landau is working on a book project tentatively entitled Global Visions in Early Modern Iran: Art and Culture during the Epoch of Shah Sulayman (1666-1694).
- Robert Mintz
- Associate Curator of Asian Art
- 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.
- William Noel
- Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books
- 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.
- Regine Schulz
- Director of International Curatorial Relations/Curator of Ancient Art
- Since becoming Curator of Ancient Art in 2001, Regine has curated two major exhibitions Eternal Egypt and Faces of Ancient Arabia, and several smaller shows. Schulz is deeply committed to the International Council of Museums (ICOM). Presently, she serves on the board of International Committee of Egyptology and on their Ethics Committee. She also teaches Egyptology at Munich University (Germany) and Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).
- Joaneath Spicer
- The James A. Murnaghan Curator of Renaissance and Baroque Art
- Spicer is working to create a major international loan exhibition, Face to Face: 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.
- Gary Vikan
- Director of the Walters Art Museum
- 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.
- Alicia Weisberg-Roberts
- Assistant Curator, 18th & 19th Century Art
- Dr. Weisberg-Roberts' work encompasses the fine arts, decorative arts, and design in 18th century France and Britain. Recently, she co-curated the exhibition Mrs. Delany and her Circle, at the Yale Center for British art and Sir John Soane's Museum, London, and edited the accompanying volume of the same title. She has also published on the collections of Horace Walpole in Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill. Further articles, on the visual culture of natural history and its influence on 18th century textile design, are forthcoming. She is currently working on a book-length study of the drawings of Antoine Watteau.