Ph.D. Columbia University, 1983
Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History

William E. Wallace received his Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University in New York in 1983 and is currently Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology. He teaches Renaissance art and architecture 1300-1700, and is an internationally recognized authority on Michelangelo and his contemporaries. In addition to more than eighty essays, chapters and articles (as well as two works of fiction), he is the author and editor of four different books on Michelangelo: Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: the Genius as Entrepreneur (Cambridge 1994); Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English (Garland, 1996), Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture (Hugh Lauter Levin, 1998), and Michelangelo: Selected Readings (Garland 1999). He has completed a biography of Michelangelo.

In 1990-91 he was a fellow at Villa I Tatti, Harvard University's Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence; in 1996-97 he was at the American Academy in Rome, and in Spring 1999 he was the Robert Sterling Clark Distinguished Visiting Professor at Williams College in Williamstown, MA.

Courses:
Early Italian Renaissance: Giotto to Leonardo
High Renaissance Art: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael
Michelangelo: Painter, Sculptor, Architect
Italian Renaissance Architecture
Venice
Mannerism
Old Master Drawings
Renaissance Patronage
Michelangelo the Architect

Recent Publications:
– “The Iconography of Absence.” Festschrift in honor of Andrew Ladis, 2007
– “Non ha l’ottimo alcun concetto.” Essay for Festschrift in honor of Roy Eriksen, 2007
– “Florence Under the Medici Pontificates, 1513-1537” in Florence ed. Francis Ames-Lewis (2007)
– “Una Frittata,” Source 2007
– “Michelangelo’s Baby,” Master Drawings 2006
– “Doni’s Double,” Source 2006
“Masaccio’s Trinity,” Source 2006
– “‘The Greatest Ass in the World’: Michelangelo as Writer.” (The Norman and Jane Geske Lecture, Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts), 2006
– “Michelangelo Admires... Antiquity and Marcello Venusti” in Ashes to Ashes: Art in Rome Between Humanism and Maniera, ed. Roy Eriksen and Victor P. Tschudi, 2006
– “Zio Michelangelo” in Watching Art: Writings in Honor of James Beck/ Studi di storia dell’arte in onore di James Beck, ed. Lynn Catterson and Mark Zucker 2006
– “Michelangelo Ha Ha” in Reading Vasari ed. Anne Barriault et al. 2005
– “'Nothing else happening': Michelangelo Between Rome and Florence,” in Michelangelo's Last Judgement, 2004.
– “Orazio Gentileschi's Living Crucifix.” Source, 2003.
– “Caravaggio's St. Francis.” Source, 2003.
– “Titian Looks at Michelangelo Looking at Titian.” Source, 2003.
– “Michelangelo and Marcello Venusti: A Case of Multiple Authorship” in Reactions to the Master: Michelangelo's Effect on Art and Artists in the Sixteenth Century ed. F. Ames-Lewis and P. Joannides, 2003
– “Michelangelo Engineer” in Architettura e tecnologia ed. C. Conforti and A. Hopkins, Rome, 2002
– “Michelangelo’s Leda: The Diplomatic Context.” Renaissance Studies, 2001
– “Michael Angelus Bonarotus Patritius Florentinus” in Innovation and Tradition: Essays on Renaissance Art and Culture, Rome, 2000
– “Michelangelo, Tiberio Calcagni, and the Florentine Pieta.” Artibus et Hisoriae, 2000
– “Friends and Relics at San Silvestro in Capite, Rome.” Sixteenth Century Journal, 1999.
– “A Week in the Life of Michelangelo,” in Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture, Cambridge, 1998
– “Matters of Life and Death: Galileo in the Afterlife of Michelangelo.” Source, 1998
– “Michelangelo's Risen Christ.” Sixteenth Century Journal, 1997
– “Manoeuvring for Patronage: Michelangelo's Dagger.” Renaissance Studies, 1997
– “Verrocchio's "Giudizio dell'occhio'.” Source, 1995
– “Instruction and Originality in Michelangelo's Drawings,” in The Craft of Art: Originality and Industry in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque Workshop, 1995
– “Miscellanae Curiositae Michelangelo: A Steep Tariff, a Half-Dozen Horses, and Yards of Taffeta.” Renaissance Quarterly, 1994
– “The Myth of Michelangelo and il Magnifico.” Co-author with Paul Barolsky, Source, 1993
– “Drawings from the Fabbrica of San Lorenzo during the Tenure of Michelangelo,” in Michelangelo Drawings, 1992
– “How Did Michelangelo Become a Sculptor?” in The Genius of the Sculptor in Michelangelo's Work, 1992
– “Michelangelo's Rome Pieta: Altarpiece or Grave Memorial?” in Verrocchio and Late Quattrocento Italian Sculpture, 1992
– Book Reviews in Renaissance Quarterly, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Master Drawings, Sixteenth Century Journal.