Carmen Bambach

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Carmen C. Bambach (* 1959 in Santiago de Chile ) is an American art historian. She is the curator of graphics at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) and the author of monographs and essays on the Italian Renaissance, has curated several exhibitions and edited ten exhibition catalogs for the MET. She is considered an expert on the art of the Italian Renaissance and the work of Leonardo da Vinci .

life and work

Carmen Bambach was born in Chile. She came to the United States with her parents in 1974 and became a US citizen in 1984. She completed a degree in art history from Yale University in 1981 , which she received in 1988 with a Ph.D. completed. From 1989 to 1995 she taught as an assistant professor at Fordham University in New York. Since 1995 she has been the curator of the “Drawings and Prints” department at MET. Under her leadership, the entire inventory of the Drawing and Prints Department was digitized and put on the Internet . From 1999 to 2005 she was a board member of the Art Bulletin of the College Art Association of America. From 2010 to 2012 she taught as Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art .

The result of her research on the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci, with which she has been concerned for over 20 years, is - in addition to a series of individual studies - the four-volume work “Leonardo da Vinci. Rediscovered, ”which is illustrated with 1,500 images and published by Yale University Press in June 2019. In an interview at MET, she described her working method as an “archaeological method”: According to this, she studied Leonardo's handwriting intensively, transcribed and translated his handwritten texts instead of relying on existing translations, and the books that were available to Leonardo , read if possible in identical editions. As she explains in the interview, she did not focus on Leonardo's artistic work, but looked at him from the perspective of the biographer and historian. From 2019 she works temporarily in the Villa I Tatti in Fiesole as part of a research project to prepare a Raffael exhibition planned at the MET.

Awards

Publications (selection)

In addition to contributions to compilations and catalogs, as well as extensive introductions to the exhibitions she has curated, she has published numerous articles in specialist journals, e.g. B. in Annali Aretini, Apollo Magazine, Art Bulletin, Art History, The Burlington Magazine , Raccolta Vinciana, Renaissance Quarterly.

  • The Tradition of Pouncing Drawings in the Italy Renaissance Workshops . Yale University 1988.
  • Drawing and Painting in the Italian Renaissance. Theory and Practice, 1300-1600 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1999. ISBN 0-521-40218-2
  • Un 'eredità difficil. I disegni ed i manoscritti di Leonardo tra mito e documento . April 14, 2007, Città di Vinci, Biblioteca Leonardiana. Vinci: Comune di Vinci, 2009. (Lettura vinciana.47.)
  • Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered . 4 vols. New Haven, Conn .: Yale University Press 2019. ISBN 978-0-30019195-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carmen C. Bambach, Curriculum vitae Accademia, accessed on April 7, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Quoted from: Claudia Kalb: A 23-year excavation into the life of Leonardo da Vinci. Interview with Carmen Bambach National Geographic, April 25, 2019, accessed June 7, 2019
  3. ↑ Carmen C. Bambach; I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies , accessed June 7, 2019
  4. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ $ 100,000 Vilcek Prize Honoring Immigrants Goes to Art Historian Carmen C. Bambach Artnews, accessed June 7, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Bambach, Carmen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bambach, Carmen C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile