Louise Rice

Ph.D. 1992, M.A. 1982 (Art History), Columbia University; B.A. 1980 (Classics), Harvard University.

Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture; history of prints and print culture.

Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Digital Resources Grant, 2015; Allen W. Clowes Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2013-14; James S. Ackerman Scholar in Residence, American Academy in Rome, 2008; J. Clawson Mills Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006-07; Frese Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 2000-01; Premio Salimbeni, for The Altars and Altarpieces of New St. Peter's, 1998; Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, American Academy in Rome, 1994-95; summer research grant, American Philosophical Society, 1994; Premio Salvatore Rebecchini, for Specchio di Roma barocca, 1992; Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow, American Academy in Rome, 1984-86

Publications:

"The Pre-Mochi Projects for the Veronica Pier in St Peter's," in The Eternal Baroque: Studies in Honour of Jennifer Montagu, ed. C. Miner, Milan: Skira, 2015, pp. 175-20

"Bernini and the Frame of the Volto Santo," Bollettino dei monumenti, musei, e gallerie pontificie, XXXII, 2014 (2015), pp. 194-200

"The Unveiling of Mochi's 'Veronica'," Burlington Magazine, CLVI, 2014, pp. 735-40

"The Cuckoldries of Baccio del Bianco," in Cuckoldry, Impotence and Adultery in Europe, 15^th-17^th Century, ed. S. Matthews-Grieco, Farnham: Ashgate, 2014, pp. 215-48
"Cardinal Rapaccioli and the Turnip-sellers of Rome: A Satire on the War of Castro by Baccio del Bianco," Master Drawings, XLVII, 2009, pp. 53-69
"Simon Vouet's Hesperus and the Mythopoetics of Praise," in Dialogues in Art History, from Mesopotamian to Modern: Readings for a New Century [Studies in the History of Art, 74], ed. E. Cropper, New Haven and London: National Gallery of Art, 2009, pp. 236-51
"POMIS SUA NOMINA SERVANT: The Emblematic Thesis Prints of the Roman Seminary," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LXX, 2007 (2008), pp. 195-246
"Urbano VIII e il dilemma del portico del Pantheon," Bollettino d'arte, no. 143, 2008, pp. 93-110

"Bernini and the Pantheon Bronze," in Sankt Peter in Rom 1506-2006. Beiträge der internationalen Tagung vom 22. - 25. Februar 2006 in Bonn, eds. G. Satzinger et al., Munich: Hirmer, 2008, pp. 337-52
"Apes philosophicae: Bees and the Divine Design in Barberini Thesis Prints," in I Barberini e la cultura europea del Seicento. Atti del convegno internazionale (Roma 7-11 dicembre 2004), eds. L. Mochi Onori et al., Rome: De Luca, 2007, pp. 181-94
"The Pentecostal Meaning of Borromini's Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza," in Francesco Borromini 1599-1667. Atti del convegno internazionale (Roma 13-15 gennaio 2000), eds. C. L. Frommel et al., Rome and Milan: Electa, 2000, pp. 259-70

"Jesuit Thesis Prints and the Festive Academic Defence at the Collegio Romano," in The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773, eds. J. O'Malley et al., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, pp. 148-69
(reprinted as "Los pliegos de tesis jesuitas y las sustentaciones académicas festivas en el Collegio Romano," in De Augsburgo a Quito: Fuentes grabadas del arte jesuita quiteño del siglo XVIII, ex. cat., ed. A. Ojeda, trans. M. González, Quito, 2015, pp. 67-80)

The Altars and Altarpieces of New St. Peter's. Outfitting the Basilica, 1621-1666, New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Specchio di Roma barocca. Una guida inedita del XVII secolo (with Joseph Connors), Rome: Edizioni dell' Elefante, 1991; paperback ed. 1996