Kim Butler,
Asst Professor of Art History
Professor Butler (PhD with distinction Johns Hopkins University 2002,
BA with honors, Classics, Harvard University 1992) is Assistant Professor
of Renaissance and Baroque Art History at American University in Washington,
D.C. Her research focuses on High Renaissance art in the context of
humanism, gender, and theology. Articles include “Reddita lux
est: Raphael and the Pursuit of Eloquence in Leonine Rome,” in
Artists at Court: Design in Theory and Production (eds. A.
Chong and S.J. Campbell Isabella, Stewart Gardner Museum of Art, distributed
by University of Chicago Press, 2004: 138-148; volume reviewed in
Renaissance Quarterly no. 1, Spring 2006: 243-4) and
Riconsiderando Il Primo Raffaello," in Accademia Raffaello.
Atti e Studi no.
1, 2006: 63-88. Butler contributed
entries to Masterpieces of Italian Painting: The Walters Art Museum,
ed. M.S. Hansen and J. Spicer, 2005, and Women and Gender in
Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, ed. Margaret Schaus et al.,
Routledge, 2006. A book manuscript From Poetry to Thievery:
Raphael’s
Madonnas, together with articles on Raphael’s artistic relationship
with his father and with Quattrocento sculpture, are in progress.
Butler has been invited to lecture on Raphael in international venues,
including the National Gallery, London and the Bibliotheca Hertziana,
Rome.
Professor Butler teaches the General Education course Art of the Renaissance
and has offered five advanced courses in Early Modern European Art and
Methods: Early Renaissance Art, Late Renaissance Art, High Renaissance
Art, International Baroque Art, and Approaches to Art History, and one
seminar: Text Versus Image?