James G. Harper

James Gordon Harper is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of the History of Art & Architecture at the University of Oregon. He received his B.A. from Trinity College in 1987 and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. Prior to coming to Oregon, Harper worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Harvard University Art Museums. Although a specialist in Italian art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, he teaches courses that range across Renaissance and Baroque Art in Northern and Southern Europe. His research treats the connections between art and power, with particular focus on the use of monumental biographical imagery as a form of propaganda.

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