Professor Dr. Adrian Randolph

Biography

Adrian Randolph is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Humanities and Dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. His work examines medieval and Renaissance Italian art and architecture, with a focus on Florence. His research interests encompass gender, politics, poetry, space, and the sense of emotion in fifteenth-century Italian art, particularly Florentine painting, sculpture, and architecture. Currently, he is investigating Donatello’s Mary Magdalen and exploring issues related to cultural, material, and biological hybridity. Prior to his appointment at Northwestern, Randolph served as the Leon E. Williams Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College, where he also directed the Leslie Center for the Humanities. He co-edits the book series ‘Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture’ published by the University Press of New England. His selected publications include 'Touching Objects: Intimate Experiences of Italian Renaissance Art' (Yale University Press, 2014) and 'Renaissance Love: Eros, Passion, Friendship in Italian Art 1500,' co-edited with Jeanette Kohl and Marianne Koos (Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2014).

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