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
Bernini's Beloved, National Gallery of Art podcast, March 10, 2013
James Cuno of the Getty interviews Sarah McPhee at the Jaipur Literary Festival, January 2016
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
