Irving Lavin
ART HISTORY
Professor Emeritus
School of Historical
Studies

Irving Lavin is one of America’s most distinguished art historians. He has written extensively on the history of art from late antiquity to modern times. His numerous books on Roman and Florentine sculpture and architecture include Bernini and the Crossing of St. Peter’s (1968); Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts (1980); Past-Present: Essays on Historicism in Art from Donatello to Picasso (1993); Santa Maria del Fiore: The Cathedral of Florence and the Pregnant Virgin (1999); and Caravaggio and La Tour: The Occult Light of God (2000). Professor Lavin has recently delivered the A.W. Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art.

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1955; Senior Research Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks, 1957-59; Senior Fulbright Scholar, 1961-63; American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, 1965-66; Guggenheim Fellow, 1968-69; Institute of Fine Arts faculty, New York University, 1963-74; Institute for Advanced Study, Professor, 1973-2001, Emeritus, 2001-; Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, College Art Association of America, 1959, 1962, 1968; Medal of Honor, City of Rome, 1980; Premio, Daria Borghese, Rome, 1981; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome.