Joseph Manca’s areas of research interest include
Renaissance, Baroque, and early American art and architecture. He teaches courses on European and early
American art and architecture from 1300 to 1850. He has published numerous articles
on Italian Renaissance and early American art; recent studies include an essay
on Leonardo da Vinci's Cecilia Gallerani (Word and Image) and a study of the Hudson Valley Dutch and the origins of the American porch (Winterthur
Portfolio). Manca's books include The Art of Ercole de' Roberti (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1992); Titian 500, ed. Joseph Manca (Washington: National Gallery of
Art, 1993); Cosme Tura: The Life and Art of
a Painter in Estense Ferrara
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000); Moral Essays on the High
Renaissance: Art in Italy in the Age of Michelangelo (Lanham, MD: The University Press of America,
2001); and Andrea Mantegna and the Italian
Renaissance (Parkstone: London,
2006). Books under contract include Meaning
in Italian Renaissance Art: A Study of Early Sources (Tempe, AZ: Arizona
State University Press [Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies]); and George Washington's Eye: Landscape, Architecture, and Design at Mount Vernon (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press). Also in progress is a book on Shaker ideology and material
culture.
Select Publications
Books:
George Washington's Eye: Landscape, Architecture, and Design at Mount Vernon (Baltimore,
MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming).
Meaning in Italian Renaissance Art: The
Evidence in Early Sources, Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies [series:
Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies], forthcoming.
Andrea Mantegna and the Italian
Renaissance,
London and New York: Parkstone Press
International, 2006. [Published also
in French (Andrea Mantegna et la Renaissance italienne) and German (Andrea Mantegna: Kunst und Kultur im
Italien der Renaissance).]
Moral Essays on the High Renaissance:
Art in Italy in the Age of Michelangelo, Lanham, MD and Oxford: University Press of America, 2001.
Cosm Tura: The Life and Art of a Court Painter
in Estense Ferrara, Oxford
and New York: Oxford University Press,2000.
The Art of Ercole de’ Roberti, New York and
Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1992.