Sarah McPheeSamuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History
Education
- Ph.D., Columbia University, 1997
- A.B., Harvard College, 1982
Research Interests
- Seventeenth and eighteenth-century European architecture, urbanism and drawings
- Baroque sculpture
- History of the Book
- Artistic Biography
- Cartography
- Print Culture
Selected Publications
Books
 | Antichità, teatro, magnificenza: Renaissance & Baroque images of Rome, exhibtion catalogue (Atlanta, GA: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2013) |
 | Bernini's Beloved: A Portrait of Costanza Piccolomini (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012)
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 | Bernini and the Bell Towers: Architecture and Politics at the Vatican, (New Haven:Yale University Press, 2002) |
 | Filippo Juvarra: Drawings from the Roman Period, 1704-1714. Part II (Rome: Edizioni dell'Elefante, 1999) |
Exhibition Catalogue
Antichità, teatro, magnificenza: Renaissance & Baroque images of Rome (Atlanta, GA: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2013)
Digital Humanities Project
Selected Articles
"The Stratigraphy of Poetic Landscape at the Esquiline Villa," in Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500-1700, eds. Karl A.E. Enenkel and Walter Melion (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021), 367-390.
“Falda’s Map as a Work of Art,” The Art Bulletin 101, no. 2 (June 2019): 7-28
“The House of Costanza Scultora,” in The Display of Art in Roman Palaces, 1550-1750, ed. Gail Feigenbaum (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2014), 107-111
“Teatro,” in Antichità, Teatro, Magnificenza: Renaissance and Baroque Images of Rome, exhibition catalogue, ed. S. McPhee (Atlanta, GA: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2013), 22-39.
“Rome 1676: Falda’s View," in Piante di Roma. La città dal Rinascimento ai catasti, eds. Mario Bevilacqua and Marcello Fagiolo (Rome: Artemide, 2012), 232-243.
“The Long Arm of the Fabbrica: St. Peter’s and the City of Rome,” in Sankt Peter in Rom 1506-2006. Beiträge der internationalen Tagung Bonn 22.-25, February 2006, eds. George Satzinger and Sebastian Schütze (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2008), 341-362.
“Bernini's Books," The Burlington Magazine 142, no. 1168 (July 2000): 442-448
“The Architect as Reader," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 58, no. 3 (September 1999): 454-461.
Interviews and Podcasts
Interview: Krys Boyd of KERA public radio program "Think" interviews Sarah McPhee about Bernini's Beloved: A Portrait of Costanza Piccolomini, April 2013. (Click here to listen to the interview)
Podcast: Bernini's Beloved, National Gallery of Art podcast, March 10, 2013. (Click here to listen to the podcast)
Podcast: James Cuno of the Getty interviews Sarah McPhee at the Jaipur Literary Festival, January 2016. (Click here to listen to the podcast)
Current Projects
Books
The Eye of the Etcher: A Brief Life of Giovanni Battista Falda
A Topographical Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Selected Seminars
Borromini and Bernini; The Italian Garden; The City of Rome; Artistic Biography in the Renaissance and the Baroque; Architectural Competition; Rome in Print; Envisioning Baroque Rome
