This symposium is organized on the occasion of Tod A. Marder’s retirement from active teaching. A generous and insightful scholar, mentor, and colleague, Tod has been a significant influence on the fields of Baroque architecture, Bernini studies, and architectural history and criticism for over forty years. To celebrate Tod’s scholarship and to reflect on the current state and historiography of architectural history and Bernini studies, this symposium brings together colleagues, mentees, and former students who will speak on a range of topics inspired by Tod’s work and example.

Organizers: Karen Lloyd and Stephanie Leone
Host: Erik Thuno, Chair, Department of Art History, Rutgers

Sponsored by the Department of Art History, Rutgers University and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

9:00-9:20  WELCOME 

  • Erik Thuno, Chair, Department of Art History
  • Stephanie C. Leone (Boston College) and Karen J. Lloyd (Stony Brook University); Co-organizers

9:20-10:40  SESSION I: Reconstructions

10:40-11:10  LAUDATIO: John Pinto, Princeton University. Tod Marder: An Appreciation

11:40-1:00  SESSION II: Dissemination

2:00-3:20  SESSION III: Bernini

3:20-3:40  VIDEO Susanna Pasquali, Pantheon

4:10-5:15  KEYNOTE LECTURE: John Beldon Scott, University of Iowa. Bernini’s Colonnade: Anxiety and Control in Piazza San Pietro

5:15  RECEPTION