MICHAEL ZELL

725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 205B
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Telephone: (617) 353-1452
Fax: (617) 353-3243
E-mail: mzell@bu.edu

curriculum vitae

Associate Chair, Art History Department, Associate Professor; Baroque and Eighteenth-Century Art. BA, McGill University; PhD, Harvard University

Associate Professor Michael Zell received his Ph.D. from Harvard University's Department of Fine Arts in 1994 and has been teaching at Boston University since 1996. His area of research is seventeenth-century Dutch art, with a particular focus on Rembrandt. His book, Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam was published by the University of California Press in 2002. He is the author of articles in the journals Art History, Simiolus and the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, and has co-edited the volume Rethinking Rembrandt (2002), to which he contributed an essay on Rembrandt and gift giving. He has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for his current book project For the Love of Art: Liefhebbers and Gift-Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art. Professor Zell teaches courses that cover a wide range of themes in his field of specialization, European art and architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He regularly offers the survey classes "Northern Baroque Art" and "Southern Baroque Art", as well as graduate and undergraduate seminars on focused topics such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, “Print Culture in Seventeenth-Century Holland”, and “The Alliance of Art and Power in the Baroque”.