CAAD Guest Lecture: Douglas N. Dow

Douglas N. Dow, associate professor of art history at Kansas State University, will give a public lecture titled "Never adequately praised: Bernardino Poccetti's Lost Paintings at Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence." Dow’s research interests focus on issues of collective patronage, the production and consumption of art by non-elites, and the professional and social networks of artists and patrons in late 16th century Italy. His interest in the intersection of digital technologies, popular culture, and the history of Renaissance art led to an article on the presence of anachronistic architectural monuments in the video game “Assassin’s Creed II." At Kansas State, Dow teaches introductory art history courses, as well as upper-level courses on Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art. He also had led several summer study-abroad programs in Italy.