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John Varriano teaches European art from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. His intermediate level courses include Italian Renaissance Art, Southern Baroque Art, and Northern Baroque Art. His recent seminars have examined "The Sacred and the Profane," "The History of the City of Rome," "Palladio and Palladianism," and "Caravaggio and his Followers." | ||||||||||
| Professor Varriano is active in the European Studies Program and has served four terms as chair of the Department of Art. As the Idella Plimpton Kendall Professor of Art, he holds an endowed chair named after the first woman in America to spend her junior year abroad, and he strongly encourages his current students to do the same. John Varriano has a special interest in the art and architecture of seventeenth-century Rome and has published more than three dozen specialized studies in his field. He is now at work on a book entitled Caravaggio and the Art of Realism. | |||||||||||
