Dr. Sara Nair James ...

                 Publications

Book:

Signorelli and Fra Angelico at Orvieto: Liturgy, Poetry and a Vision of the End-time. Aldershot [UK]: Ashgate Press, November 2003.

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Nominated in May 2005 for the ACE/Mercers International Book Award (UK) for a book that makes an outstanding contribution to the dialogue between religious faith and the visual arts. Received honorable mention.

Articles:

“Antichrist in the Visual Arts” for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, published by Verlag Walter de Gruyter in Berlin (Germany), Volume A, 2009.

“Apocalypse in the Visual Arts” for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, published by Verlag Walter de Gruyter in Berlin (Germany), Volume A, 2009.

Co-authored with Dr. Ulysse Desportes a biography of Horace Day, The Dictionary of Virginia Biography, the Virginia State Library 2006.

Penance and Redemption: The Role of the Roman Liturgy in Luca Signorelli’s Frescoes at Orvieto” in Artibus et Historiae vol XXII, no. 44 Fall, 2001.

Rome Diary” in Mary Baldwin College Magazine, vol. 15, no.1 fall, 2000.

Chapters:

“Cardinal Wolsey: The English Cardinal Italianate,” Renaissance Papers (published by the Southeast Renaissance Conference), 2008.

“Vasari on Signorelli: The Origins of the Grand Manner of Painting,” a chapter for Reading Vasari, Essays Honoring Paul Barolsky, ed. by Andrew Ladis, Anne Barriault and Norman Land. London: Phillip Wilson, Publishers with the Georgia Museum of Art, 2005.

Book Reviews

(selected):

Rubin, Patricia Lee. Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Renaissance Quarterly, vol. LXI/1 (spring 2008) pp. 160-61.
Eunice D. Howe. Art and Culture at the Sistine Court: Platina’s “Life of Sixtus IV” and the Frescoes of the Hospital of Santo Spirito. Studi e Testi 422. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2005. paper. ISBN: 8821007715. 268 pp. 57 b/w ill.; $45.00. Renaissance Quarterly, vol. LIX/3, (fall 2006), pp. 858-90.
Creighton Gilbert. How Fra Angelico and Signorelli Saw the End of the World (Penn State Press, 2003) in Renaissance Quarterly, LVII/2, summer, 2004, pp. 588-90.

Tom Henry and Laurence Kanter. Luca Signorelli: the Complete Paintings in the Bulletin of the Association for Textural Scholarship in Art History, vol. XI, no. 1, winter/spring, 2003, p. 3.

Book Reviews in the Sixteenth Century Journal

Andrew Ladis. Giotto’s O: Narrative, Figuration, and Pictorial Ingenuity in the Arena Chapel. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. Sixteenth Century Journal XLI/4 (2010) pp.1248-1249.

Diane Cole Ahl. Fra Angelico. London: Phaidon Inc., Ltd., 2008, vol. XLI/2 summer 2010, pp. 616-17.

Lindow, James C. The Renaissance Palace in Florence: Magnificence and Splendour in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007), vol. XL, no 3, fall 2009, 817-18.

Falomir, Miguel, ed. with contributions by Robert Echols, Frederick Ilchman, and others. Tintoretto, Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado/Ediciones El Viso, 2007 and London: Paul Holberton, 2007, vol. XL, no.2, summer, 2009, pp.   .

Gioacchino Barbera, with contributions by Keith Christiansen and Andrea Bayer. Antonello da Messina: Sicily's Renaissance Master by New Haven and London: Yale University Press in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. in Sixteenth Century Journal XXXIX/3, fall 208, 935-36.

 Fiorani, Francesca. The Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography, and Politics in Renaissance Italy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005 in Sixteenth Century Journal, vol XXXVII, no 3 (summer 2006), pp.948-49.

Strehlke, Carl Brandon. Italian Paintings, 1250-1450, in the John G. Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. College Park: Penn State Press with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2004.in Sixteenth Century Journal, vol XXXVII, no 1 (spring 2006), pp. 577-79.

Jeffrey Chipps Smith. The Northern Renaissance. Arts and Ideas. London: Phaidon, 2004.volume XXXVI/4 winter 2005, p. 1207-08.
Anne Derbes and Mark Sandona, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Giotto Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. vol. XXXVI/2 summer 2005, pp. 517-18.

Eliot W. Rowlands. Masaccio: St. Andrew and the Pisa Altarpiece. Los Angeles: Getty Museum Studies on Art, 2003. vol. XXXV/4 winter 2004, p. 1178.

Pauline Croft, editor.  Patronage, Culture and Power: The Early Cecils. New Haven and Washington: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Yale Center for British Art, 2002. SCJ vol. XXXV/3 fall 2004, pp. 954-55.

David Alan Brown, editor. Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo’s Genevra de’Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women. Princeton: Princeton University Press in association with the National Gallery of Art. Paper, 2003. SCJ  vol. XXXV/3, fall 2004, pp. 923-24.

Stuart McClintock. The Iconography of Georges de la Tour’s Religious Paintings 1624-1650. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. XXXV/2, summer 2004, pp. 587-88.

Xanthe Brooke and David Crombie. Henry VIII Revealed: Holbein’s Portrait and its Legacy. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2003. XXXV/2, summer 2004, pp. 600-01.

Mark Roskill and John Oliver Hand, eds. Hans Holbein: Paintings, Prints and Reception. Studies in the History of Art vol. 60. Washington and New Haven: National Gallery of Art and Yale University Press, 2001 , vol. XXXV1 spring, 2004, pp. 318-19.

H. Colin Slim. Painting Music in the Sixteenth Century: Essays in Iconography.   Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2002 in Sixteenth Century Journal, XXXIV/3, fall, 2003, pp. 798-99

Richard Cocke. Paolo Veronese: Piety and Display in an Age of Religious Reform. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2002 in Sixteenth Century Journal, XXXIV/2, summer, 2003, pp. 466-67.

Walter Liedtke and others. Review of Vermeer and the Delft School. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001; XXXIII/4 (winter, 2002) 1239-40.

Gabriele Neher and Rupert Shepherd, ed. Revaluing Renaissance Art. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2000; XXXIII/2 (summer, 2002) 471-72.

Patricia Lee Rubin and Alison Wright with Nicholas Penny. Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s. London: National Gallery, 1999, XXXII/3 (fall 2001) pp. 852-53. 

Hellmut Wohl. The Aesthetics of Italian Renaissance Art:  A Reconsideration of Style. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999, XXXII/2, pp. 498-500.

Steffi Roettgen, Italian Frescoes: The Flowering of the Renaissance, 1470-1510, New York: Abbeville Press, 1997, XXX/4 (winter 1999), pp. 481-82.

Rona Goffen, editor, Masaccio’s Trinity, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.  XXX/1, (spring 1999), 174-75.

Francis Ames-Lewis, Tuscan Marble Carving 1250-1350: Sculpture and Civic Pride. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 1997, XXX/1 (spring 1999), pp. 145-46.

David Ekserdjian Correggio. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998, XXIX/4 (winter 1998), pp. 1223-24.

Steffi Roettgen, Italian Frescoes: The Early Renaissance. New York: Abbeville Press, 1996, XXIX/3 (fall 1998), pp. 791-93.

Diane Cole Ahl, Benozzo Gozzoli. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, XXVIII/3 (spring, 1997), pp. 1074-75.

Lew Andrews. Story and Space in Renaissance Art: The Rebirth of Continuous Narrative. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, XXVIII/1(spring, 1997), pp. 375-76.

Jonathan Riess. The Renaissance Antichrist: Luca Signorelli's Orvieto Frescoes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, XXVII/3 (fall 1996), pp. 910-911.

Reviews published in the Historians of British Art

Goodall, John. The English Castle: 1066-1650:  New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 20 11, Summer 2011, pp. 16 -17.

Girouard, Mark. Elizabethan Architecture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2009. Summer 2010, pp. 14-16.

Ayers, Tim ed. The History of British Art, Volume 1: 600-1600. David Bindman, General Editor New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, Spring 2009, pp. 22-23.

Campbell, Thomas P. Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty: Tapestries at the Tudor Court. New Haven and London: Yale University Press and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2009. Spring 2009, pp.20-21.

Howard, Maurice. The Building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. spring/summer 2008, pp. 15-16.

Anderson, Christy. Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition. Cambridge and New York: (Cambridge University Press, 2006. spring/summer 2007.

McClendon, Charles B. The Origins of Medieval Architecture: Building in Europe, 600-900 A.D. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005 spring/summer 2006, pp. 11-12.

Henderson, Paula. The Tudor House and Garden: Architecture and Landscape in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries. New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Yale Center for British Art, 2005, fall/winter 2005, pp. 10-11.

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Books

Stained Glass Windows in First Presbyterian Church, Norfolk, Virginia. Norfolk: First Presbyterian Church, September 1988.
Chapters

"Stained Glass Windows in Trinity Church,” a chapter in Conformable to Doctrine and Discipline: A History of Augusta Parish, Trinity Church, Staunton, Virginia by Nancy Sorrells, Katherine Brown, and Suzanne Simmons (Fall, 1996).

"A Guide to Historic St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church, Staunton, Virginia" with Father John Abe, a chapter in A History of St. Francis of Assisi Parish, Staunton, Virginia: Celebrating 150 Years 1845-1995 by Hampton Hairfield, Elizabeth Hairfield, and Jane Smith (Spring, 1996)

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Book manuscript:

Articles:  

 

 "Art in England 600-1603:from the Saxons through the Tudors

 "Cardinal Wolsey, his Court, his King and the Italian Rhetoric of Magnificence.”

 "Liturgy as a Source of Narrative Design in the Duomo of Orvieto”

"The Life of the Virgin Mary at Orvieto"

"The Remarkable Role of St. Joseph at Orvieto" .

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