Donald McColl
Nancy L. Underwood Associate Professor of Art History
Education
- B.A., University of Western Ontario, 1986
- M.A., Oberlin College, 1992
- Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1996, with postdoctoral study at Northwestern University
Research Interests
- Netherlandish, German and Swiss art of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries
- art and the Reformations of the sixteenth century
- iconoclasm
- Early Christian/Late Antique art and archaeology
- museology
Course Offerings
- Introduction to History of Western Art
- World Art (in planning)
- Late Antique Art in the Making
- Wars Against Idols: Cross-Cultural Studies in Iconoclasm
- Northern Renaissance Art
- Italian Renaissance Art
- Art from the Baroque to Neoclassicism
- Dürer and his Culture
- Rembrandt
- Museums (Broken Homes?): History, Theory, Practice
- Exhibition Seminar: Rembrandt’s Poor
Recent Publications
- “Agony in the Garden: Dürer’s ‘Crisis of the Image.’” In The Essential Dürer. Ed. Jeffrey Chipps Smith and Larry Silver. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
- “Ad fontes: Iconoclasm by Water in the Reformation World.” In Michael Cole and Rebecca Zorach, eds., The Idol in the Age of Art: Objects, Devotions, and the Early Modern World. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom, and Burlington, Vermont, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008, 189-220.
- “Signs of the Times: The Cleveland Marbles.” Byzantine Studies Research Reports, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC, 2006 (http://doaks.org/research/byzantine/byzantine-fellowship-reports/signs-of-the-times-the-cleveland-marbles)
