Gilbert, Creighton Eddy

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GILBERT, Creighton Eddy

GILBERT, Creighton Eddy. American, b. 1924. Genres: Art/Art history, Translations. Career: Professor Emeritus, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2000- (Professor of History of Art, 1981-2000). Associate Professor, 1961-65, and Sidney and Ellen Wien Professor of the History of Art, 1965-69, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Professor of the History of Art, Queens College of the City University of New York, 1969-77; Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of History of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1977-81. Ed., Art Bulletin, 1980-85. Publications: (trans.) Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo, 1963; Michelangelo, 1967; Change in Piero della Francesca, 1968; History of Renaissance Art, 1972; (ed.) Italian Art 1400-1500: Sources and Documents, 1980; The Works of Girolamo Savoldo, 1986; Poets Seeing Artists' Work: Instances in the Italian Renaissance, 1991; Michelangelo on and off the Sistine Ceiling, 1994; Piero della Francesca et Giorgione; Problemes d'Interpretation, 1994; Caravaggio and His Two Cardinals, 1995; The Saints' Three Reasons for Paintings in Churches, 2001. Address: Dept. of History of Art, Box 208272, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, U.S.A.

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