Awards
Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Finalists
Below are the names of authors, their book titles, and publisher information for the finalists of the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from 1996 to 2012. You may also read a list of all winners of the award from 1956 to the present.
2012 Finalists
Michael W. Cole, Ambitious Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011).
Rebecca Messbarger, The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010).
Nina Rowe, The Jew, The Cathedral, and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
2011 Finalists
Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009).
Juliet Koss, Modernism after Wagner (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010).
Hui-shu Lee, Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010).
2010 Finalists
Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008).
Matthew Biro, The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
Shelley Perlove and Larry Silver, Rembrandt’s Faith: Church and Temple in the Dutch Golden Age (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009).
2009 Finalists
Jennifer A. González, Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008).
D. Fairchild Ruggles, Islamic Gardens and Landscapes (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
Harvey Stahl, Picturing Kingship: History and Painting in the Psalter of Saint Louis (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008).
2008 Finalists
Todd Porterfield and Susan L. Siegfried, Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006).
Eric Jan Sluijter, Rembrandt and the Female Nude (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006).
Ann Terry and Henry Maguire, Dynamic Splendor: The Wall Mosaics in the Cathedral of Eufrasius at Poreč (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007).
2007 Finalists
Gregory P. A. Levine, Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005).
Rebecca Zurier, Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).
2006 Finalists
D. Medina Lasansky, The Renaissance Perfected: Architecture, Spectacle, and Tourism in Fascist Italy (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004).
Michael Leja, Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004).
Alison Wright, The Pollaiuolo Brothers: The Arts of Florence and Rome (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005).
Xiaoneng Yang, New Perspectives on China’s Past: Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2004).
2005 Finalists
Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).
John R. Clarke, Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans: Visual Representation and Non-Elite Viewers in Italy, 100 BC–AD 315 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).
Sarah E. Fraser, Performing the Visual: the Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618–960 (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004).
2004 Finalists
Nina Maria Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
Michael Fried, Menzel’s Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002).
Beth Irwin Lewis, Art for All? The Collision of Modern Art and the Public in Late-Nineteenth-Century Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003).
2003 Finalists
John Klein, Matisse Portraits (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).
Richard Meyer, Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
Lowery Stokes Sims, Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923–1982 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002).
Natasha Staller, A Sum of Destructions: Picasso’s Cultures and the Creation of Cubism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).
2002 Finalists
Rebecca Bedell, The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).
Ivan Gaskell, Vermeer’s Wager: Speculations on Art History, Theory, and Art Museums (London: Reaktion Books, 2000).
Annabel Jane Wharton, Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
2001 Finalists
Carmen C. Bambach, Drawing and Painting in the Italian Renaissance Workshop: Theory and Practice, 1300–1600 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Patricia Mathews, Passionate Discontent: Creativity, Gender, and French Symbolist Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
Mitchell B. Merback, The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).
2000 Finalists
Christopher M. S. Johns, Antonio Canova and the Politics of Patronage in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
Jean C. Wilson, Painting in Bruges at the Close of the Middle Ages: Studies in Society and Visual Culture (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998).
Joanna Woods-Marsden, Renaissance Self-Portraiture: The Visual Construction of Identity and the Social Status of the Artist (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).
1999 Finalists
Patricia Fortini Brown, Venice and Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
Andrew Stewart, Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
1998 Finalists
Oleg Grabar, The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).
Wu Hung, The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
Mary D. Sheriff, The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).
1997 Finalists
Thomas Crow, Emulation: Making Artists for Revolutionary France (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
William L. MacDonald and John A. Pinto, Hadrian’s Villa and Its Legacy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).
Gülru Necipoğlu, The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (Los Angeles: Getty Center for History of Art and the Humanities, 1995).
Patricia Lee Rubin, Giorgio Vasari: Art and History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).
Claire Richter Sherman, Imaging Aristotle: Verbal and Visual Representation in Fourteenth-Century France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
1996 Finalists
David Landau and Peter Parshall, The Renaissance Print, 1470–1550 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).
Jeffrey Chipps Smith, German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, c. 1520–1580: Art in an Age of Uncertainty (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).
William E. Wallace, Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Genius as Entrepreneur (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
