List of Mellon Lectures for the end of The Roots of Romanticism:
THE A. W. MELLON LECTURES IN THE FINE ARTS
Delivered at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1952 Jacques Maritain, Creative Intuition in
Art and Poetry
1953 Sir Kenneth Clark, The Nude: A Study
of Ideal Form
1954 Sir Herbert Read, The Art of Sculpture
1955 Etienne Gilson, Art and Reality
1956 E. H. Gombrich, The Visible World and
the Language of Art
1957 Sigfried Giedion, Constancy and Change
in Art and Architecture
1958 Sir Anthony Blunt, Nicolas Poussin
and French Classicism
1959 Naum Gabo, A Sculptor’s View of the
Fine Arts
1960 Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Horace Walpole
1961 André Grabar, Christian Iconography
and the Christian Religion in Antiquity
1962 Kathleen Raine, William Blake and Traditional
Mythology
1963 Sir John Pope-Hennessy, Artist and
Individual: Some Aspects of the Renaissance Portrait
1964 Jakob Rosenberg, On Quality in Art:
Criteria of Excellence, Past and Present
1965 Sir Isaiah Berlin, Sources of Romantic Thought
1966 Lord David Cecil, Dreamer or Visionary:
A Study of English Romantic Painting
1967 Mario Praz, On the Parallel of Literature
and the Visual Arts
1968 Stephen Spender, Imaginative Literature
and Painting
1969 Jacob Bronowski, Art as a Mode of Knowledge
1970 Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Some Aspects
of Nineteenth-Century Architecture
1971 T. S. R. Boase, Vasari: The Man and
the Book
1972 Ludwig H. Heydenreich, Leonardo da
Vinci
1973 Jacques Barzun, The Use and Abuse of
Art
1974 H. W. Janson, Nineteenth-Century Sculpture
Reconsidered
1975 H. C. Robbins Landon, Music in Europe
in the Year 1776
1976 Peter von Blanckenhagen, Aspects of
Classical Art
1977 André Chastel, The Sack of Rome:
1527
1978 Joseph W. Alsop, The History of Art
Collecting
1979 John Rewald, Cézanne and America
1980 Peter Kidson, Principles of Design
in Ancient and Medieval Architecture
1981 John Harris, Palladian Architecture
in England, 1615-1760
1982 Leo Steinberg, The Burden of Michelangelo’s
Painting
1983 Vincent Scully, The Shape of France
1984 Richard Wollheim, Painting as an Art
1985 James S. Ackerman, The Villa in History
1986 Lukas Foss, Confessions of a Twentieth-Century
Composer
1987 Jaroslav Pelikan, Imago Dei: The Byzantine
Apologia for Icons
1988 John Shearman, Art and the Spectator
in the Italian Renaissance
1989 Oleg Grabar, Intermediary Demons: Toward
a Theory of Ornament
1990 Jennifer Montagu, Gold, Silver, and
Bronze: Metal Sculpture of the Roman Baroque
1991 Willibald Sauerländer, Changing
Faces: Art and Physiognomy through the Ages
1992 Anthony Hecht, On the Laws of the Poetic
Art
1993 Sir John Boardman, The Diffusion of
Classical Art in Antiquity
1994 Jonathan Brown, Kings and Connoisseurs:
Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe
1995 Arthur C. Danto, After the End of Art:
Contemporary Art and the Pale of History
1996 Pierre Rosenberg, From Drawing to Painting:
Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David, and Ingres
1997 John Golding, Paths to the Absolute
1998 Lothar Ledderose, Ten Thousand Things:
Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art
1999 Carlo Bertelli, Transitions
2000 Marc Fumaroli, The Querelle des Anciens
et des Modernes and the Fine Arts (1640–1760)
2001 Salvatore Settis, Giorgione and Caravaggio:
Art as Revolution
2002 Michael Fried, The Moment of Caravaggio
2003 Kirk Varnedoe, Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock
2004 Irving Lavin, More Than Meets the Eye
2005 Irene Winter, ‘Great Work’: Terms of Aesthetic Experience in Ancient Mesopotamia
2006 Simon Schama, Really Old Masters: Age, Infirmity and Reinvention
2007 Helen Vendler, Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death
2008 Joseph Leo Koerner, Bosch and Bruegel: Parallel Worlds
2009 T. J. Clark, Picasso and Truth
2010 Mary Miller, Art and Representation in the Ancient New World
2011 Mary Beard, The Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from Ancient Rome to Salvador Dalí
2012 Craig Clunas, Chinese Painting and its Audiences
2013 Barry Bergdoll, Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750
2014 Anthony Grafton, Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe
2015 Thomas Crow, Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814–1820
2016 Vidya Dehejia, The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c.855–1280
2017 Alexander Nemerov, The Forest: America in the 1830s
2018 Hal Foster, Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period
2019 Wu Hung, End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time
2021 Jennifer L. Roberts, Contact: Art and the Pull of Print
2022 Yve-Alain Bois, Transparence and Ambiguity: The Modern Space of Axonometry