Henri Thomas Zerner#
Membership Number: | 3639 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | MUSICOLOGY & ART HISTORY |
Elected: | 2013 |
Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1973 - present Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
- 1973 - 1988 Curator of Prints, Fogg Art Museum
- 1972 - 1973 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Harvard University
- 1970 - 1973 Associate Professor, Brown University
- 1966 - 1970 Assistant Professor, Brown University
- 1966 Guest Curator of Prints and Drawings, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
- 1965 - 1966 Acting Curator of Painting and Graphic Arts, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I.
- 1963 - 1964 Reader in Art History at Columbia University (equivalent of Teaching Assistant)
- 1959 - 1961 Stagiaire at the Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Fields of Scholarship
- History of history of art
- Historiography of art history and of connoisseurship
- Renaissance art and architecture (especially French Renaissance)
- Prints and photographs (XIXth C)
- History of prints
- XIXth Century Art
Honours and Awards
- 1961 Focillon Fellowship, Yale University
- 1971 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1971 Prix Achille Fould, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres for L'Ecole de Fontainebleau (see bibliography).
- 1978 A.C.L.S. Fellowship
- Officier dans l’Ordre des arts et lettres