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Elizabeth Bernick

Art history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., art history, Johns Hopkins University
  • B.A., art history, Barnard College

Credentials

  • Professor of art history, Fall 2023–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Adjunct professor, 2017, Catholic University of America
  • Instructor, 2014–17, Johns Hopkins University
  • Research assistant to Stephen Campbell, 2016, History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
  • Research assistant to Mitchell Merback, 2015, History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
  • Coordinator, 2014–15, Johns Hopkins History of Art Graduate Student Lecture Series
  • Invited distinguished scholars to present lectures on topics ranging from the Ancient to Modern eras.

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Scholars Program, The Getty Research Institute
  • ACLS Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies
  • Graduate Intern, J. Paul Getty Museum, Drawings Department
  • The Pedretti Fellowship, Renaissance Society of America
  • Kress History of Art Institutional Fellowship, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence
  • Frances A. Yates Fellowship, The Warburg Institute (declined)
  • Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellowship, The Drawing Institute, Morgan Library & Museum
  • Dean's Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
  • Exchange Fellow, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick
  • Hall Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
  • Carlson/Cowart Fellowship, Baltimore Museum of Art
  • Robert and Nancy Hall Fellowship, The Walters Art Museum

Publications and presentations

Selected publications

  • "Drawing Connections: New Discoveries Regarding Cesare da Sesto's Sketchbook," Master Drawings Vol. 57 No. 2 (Summer 2019): 147–196.
    Finalist for the journal's annual Ricciardi Essay Prize for the best new article on a drawing topic (of any period) by a scholar under the age of forty.
  • Elizabeth Bernick, Julian Brooks, Davide Gasparotto, Kari Rayner. "Lavinia Fontana's Wedding Feast at Cana," Collection: J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2022.
  • Sketchbooks in the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the J. Paul Getty Museum: A Research Guide. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2023.

Selected presentations

  • "Going Viral in Renaissance Sicily: Cesare da Sesto's Pala Kress as a Challenge to the Local," presented at Panel: Contesting the Center: Imitation as Relocation in the Renaissance City, Renaissance Society of America, Dublin, Ireland.
  • "Cesare da Sesto in Raphael's Roman Workshop ca. 1508–1513," guest speaker in Stephen Campbell's graduate seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
  • "Chain Lines: Using New Technology to Answer Old Questions," presented at Technological Revolutions and Art History, symposium jointly organized by the Frick Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, [online].
  • "Sketchbooks in the Morgan's Collection," presented at Invention and Observation in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Drawings, graduate seminar co-taught with Nicholas Penny, Morgan Library & Museum.
  • "The Role of Drawings in the Creation of the High Renaissance Style," undergraduate lecture, Notre Dame of Maryland University.

Selected curated exhibitions

  • 18th-Century Pastels, J. Paul Getty Museum, August 30, 2022–February. 26, 2023
  • Pastel Portraits: Drawn from Life?, J. Paul Getty Museum, March 14–September 17, 2023
  • Exploring the Alps, J. Paul Getty Museum, January–April 2024