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Arthur J. DiFuria

Dean, School of Liberal Arts

Education

  • Ph.D., art history, University of Delaware
  • M.A., art history, Temple University
  • B.A., English literature, Temple University

Credentials

  • Dean, School of Liberal Arts, Summer 2025–present
    Associate dean, School of Liberal Arts, Fall 2024–Spring 2025
    Chair, Department of Art History, 2017–2024
    Professor, Fall 2010–present
    Associate chair, Department of Art History, Winter 2017–Summer 2017
    Graduate coordinator, Department of Art History, Winter 2016–Summer 2017
    Program coordinator, Department of Art History, Winter 2016–Fall 2016, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Chair, Liberal Arts and Art Education, Fall 2008–Spring 2010
    Assistant professor, Art History and Curatorial Studies, Spring 2008–Spring 2010
    Visiting scholar and adjunct instructor, Spring 1998–Spring 2008, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
  • Adjunct instructor, University of Delaware, Spring 2000–Spring 2005
  • Adjunct instructor, Temple University, Fall 1997–Spring 1998

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Publication Subvention Fellowship, Historians of Netherlandish Art, 2016–17
  • Dean’s Award for Teaching Effectiveness, Savannah College of Art and Design, Fall 2015
  • Research Sabbatical Award, Savannah College of Art and Design, Spring 2014
  • Presidential Research Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design, Summer 2011
  • Faculty Development Grant, Moore College of Art and Design, 2009–10
  • Kress Travel Fellowship in the History of Art, May–Dec. 2005
  • Bloc Fellow, University of Delaware, Fall 2002–Spring 2003
  • Allen Research Grant, University of Delaware, Spring 2002
  • Research Fellow, Studium Urbis, Rome, Summer 2002
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Delaware, Spring 2002
  • Bloc Fellow, University of Delaware, Fall 2001–Spring 2002
  • Presidential Fellowship, University of Delaware, Fall 1999–Spring 2000

Organizations

  • Southeastern College Art Conference, 2010–present
  • Sixteenth Century Society, 2000–present
  • Historians of Netherlandish Art, 2004–present
  • Renaissance Society of America, 2001–present
  • College Art Association, 1996–present
  • American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 2008–2012
  • American Association for Netherlandish Studies, 2003–2010

Publications and presentations

Books

  • Maerten van Heemskerck's Rome: Memory, Antiquity, and the Netherlandish Cult of Ruins. Leiden: Brill Publishing, 2019.

Essays, articles, and book chapters

  • "The Timeless Space of Maerten van Heemskerck’s Panoramas: Ruth and Boaz." In The Primacy of the Image in Northern European Art, 1400–1700: Essays in Honor of Larry Silver, edited by Debra Taylor Cashion, Henry Luttikhuizen, and Ashley West, 405–418. Leiden: Brill Publishing, 2017.
  • "The Concettismo of Triumph: Maerten van Heemskerck’s Prints and Spanish Omnipotence in a Late Sixteenth Century Writing Cabinet." In Prints in Translation, 1450–1575: Image, Materiality, Space. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate and London: Routledge, 2016.
  • "Genre: Audience, Origins, Definitions." In Genre Imagery in Early Modern Northern Europe: New Perspectives. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate and London: Routledge, 2016.
  • "Maerten van Heemskerck’s Caritas and the Rhetoric of Animating Stone with Paint." In Intersections: Personification: Embodying Meaning and Emotion, edited by Walter Melion and Bart Ramakers, 518–545. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2016.
  • "Maerten van Heemskerck’s Heliodorus Driven out of the Temple: Translatio and the Interrogative Print." In Intersections 33: 'Ab historia proprie figurative: Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400–1700': Proceedings of the 2012 Lovis Corinth Colloquium, Art History Department, Emory University, February 16-18, 2012, edited by Walter Melion and Michel Weemans, 711–736. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2014.
  • "The Eternal Eye: Memory, Archeology, and Topography in Maerten van Heemskerck’s Roman Vedute." In Rom, Zeichnen: Maarten van Heemskerck 1532 – 36/37 (Proceedings of the Conference "Die Roem. Zeichnungen Maarten van Heemskerck (Dec. 8, 2008)") edited by Tatjana Bartsch, Peter Seiler, 157–170. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2012.
  • "Maerten van Heemskerck’s Collection Imagery in the Netherlandish Pictorial Memory." Intellectual History Review 20 (2010): 27–51.

Conference papers and lectures

  • "Panoramic Thinking and the Ruin in mid-Cinquecento Rome." Presented at Renaissance Society of America Conference, New Orleans, Spring 2018.
  • "Towards an Understanding of Mayken Verhulst and Volcken Diericx." Presented at SECAC, Columbus, Ohio, Fall 2017.
  • "The Mannerist Landscape: Shearman, Antiquity, and the Temporality of Pictorial Space in the Age of Art." Presented at Renaissance Society of America Conference, Chicago, Spring 2017.
  • "The Fine Art of Feedback: the Conference Paper in the Undergraduate Classroom." Presented at SECAC, Roanoke, Va., Fall 2016.
  • "The Timeless Space of Maerten van Heemskerck’s Panoramas." Presented at Renaissance Society of America Conference, Boston, Spring 2016.
  • "Privileging the Object: History of European Art Past and Present." Lecture by invitation at University of Delaware Department of Art History 50th Anniversary Banquet, Oct. 2016.
  • "Bringing the Vatican North: Scorel, van Heemskerck, and the Rhetoric of Conspicuous Quotation." Presented at Renaissance Society of America, Berlin, Spring 2015.
  • "Maerten van Heemskerck’s Caritas: Personification and the Rhetoric of Animating Stone with Paint." Presented at Historians of Netherlandish Art, Boston, Summer 2014.
  • "Artistic Exchange Between the North and South." Lecture at Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga., Nov. 2012.
  • "Antiquity and Iconoclasm in the North." Presented at Live / Art / History Conference, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., Fall 2011.
  • "Shared Memory: Maerten van Heemskerck and His Cohorts, Drawing in Rome." Lecture at Memphis College of Art, Spring 2010.