Ackerman, James S(loss)

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ACKERMAN, James S(loss)

ACKERMAN, James S(loss). American, b. 1919. Genres: Architecture, Art/Art history. Career: Yale University, New Haven, CT, part-time instr., 1946-48; American Academy in Rome, research fellow, 1949-52; University of California, assistant professor to professor, 1952-60; Art Bulletin, ed.-in-chief, 1956-60; Harvard University, professor, 1960-90, chairman, 1963-68, 1982-84, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts, 1982-90, emeritus, 1990-; Kings College, Cambridge, Slade Professor of Fine Arts and Fellow, 1969-70; Columbia University, Meyer Shapiro Professor, 1989-90; New York University, adjunct professor, 1992. Publications: The Cortile del Belvedere, 1964; The Architecture of Michelangelo, 1961, 1986 (Alice D. Hitchcock Award, Charles R. Morey Award); (with Rhys Carpenter) Art and Archaeology, 1963; Palladio, 1967; Palladio's Villas, 1967; The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses, 1990; Distance Points: Essays in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture, 1991; Origins, Imitation, Conventions, 2002. Address: Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]