Gauvin Alexander Bailey

Professor and Bader Chair in Southern Baroque 
Ph.D. (Harvard University)
baileyg@queensu.ca
(613)533-6000 x77354

Research Interests

16th-18th century Southern and Central European arts and their international diffusion in Latin America and Asia; also the patronage of Catholic religious orders, notably the Society of Jesus (Jesuits); more recently the relationship between Rococo décor and spirituality in France, Central Europe, Iberia, and Latin America

Biography

I have taught Renaissance, Baroque, and Latin American art at Clark University, Boston College, and the University of Aberdeen, and have held guest professorships at Boston University and the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. I have curated and served as consultant on museum exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution, the Philadelphia Museum, the Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon), the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, the Victoria & Albert Museum among others and have held fellowships with the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), and the British Academy. I am currently working on a book for Ashgate Publishing called Spiritual Rococo: Décor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Paraguay on the impact of a theology of "happiness" in French literature on the proliferation of Rococo arts and architecture not only in France and Central Europe but also in present-day Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Paraguay. 

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Publications

	Baroque & Rococo (2012)		The Andean Hybrid Baroque: Convergent Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru (2010)
	Art of Colonial Latin America (2005)		Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610 (2003)
	Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773 (1999)

Courses Taught

ARTH253 Baroque Art

ARTH370 Architecture of the Baroque Period

ARTH451 Caravaggio & Artemisia

ARTH272 Latin American Art

ARTH372 Art of Colonial Latin America

ARTH472 Art & Global Encounter

ARTH854 Studies in Baroque and Rococo