Name Irving Lavin | ||
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Education Harvard University (1953–1955) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Visible Spirit: The Art of Gia, Past‑present: Essays on Historicis, The Liturgy of Love, Bernin et l'art de la satire soc, The Form of Meaning / the Mea | ||
Irving Lavin on the Institute for Advanced Study
Irving Lavin (born 1927) is an American art historian who specializes in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and published groundbreaking studies on Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Contents
- Irving Lavin on the Institute for Advanced Study
- Scholarly life and work
- Select publications
- References
Scholarly life and work
Lavin was a student of Horst W. Janson at Washington University, St. Louis, where he graduated with a B.A. in 1949. In 1952, he received his first M.A. at New York University under Richard Krautheimer and in 1953 a second M.A. at Harvard University. In 1955, he completed his Ph.D. under Ernst Kitzinger. From 1959 to 1962, he taught art history at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. In 1963, he was appointed associate professor and later professor at New York University. In 1973 he was appointed professor of historical studies at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, succeeding Erwin Panofsky, where he worked until his retirement in 2001.
Lavin mainly wrote on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, for instance, on Donatello, Michelangelo, Pontormo, Giambologna, Caravaggio and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, but also on Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock. His studies focused on the correlation between form and meaning in the visual arts.