John Garton
Associate Professor, Visual and Performing Arts
Scholarly Interests
art history; European Art 1300-1700, Latin American Art & Architecture; Pre-Columbian Art; Museum Studies
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Dr. Garton received a B.A. in Philosophy from Trinity University (San Antonio, TX) and Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He joined the Clark faculty in the autumn of 2008.
Dr. Garton's interests include Renaissance and Baroque art, Latin-American Art and modern architecture. His scholarly research has focused on European portraiture, Venetian art and architecture, Renaissance engineering and designed landscapes. Occasionally he publishes on Pre-Columbian subjects, a secondary area of study.
Dr. Garton teaches lecture courses on Renaissance and Baroque art and Latin-American Art. His upper-level courses include Art, the Public, and the History of Worcester (ARTH 201), The Art of Art History: Teaching and Methods (ARTH 210), both required for the art history major, and seminars on Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio and Pre-Columbian Art & Architecture.
Dr. Garton is currently completing a book-length, multi-author study of the Renaissance designed landscape and statuary of Vicino Orsini's sacro bosco in Bomarzo, Italy (1552-ca.1585). Other current projects include analysis of Leonardo da Vinci's so-called ‘grotesque heads,' and a study of depictions of the Aztec deity, Xipe totec "Our Lord the Flayed One."
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Specialization in European Renaissance and Baroque Art, minor in Latin American Art, New York University, 2003
- M.A., New York University, 1998
- B.A. in Art History and Painting/Liberal Arts, Truman University, 1997
- B.A. in Philosophy, Trinity University, 1992
Affiliated Department(s)
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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Book proposal The Sacro Bosco at Bomarzo: Landscape and Sculpture in Renaissance Lazio
Architecture and the Arts in Early Modern Italy
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2025
Brepols Publishing: Harvey Miller
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Book review A View of Venice: Portrait of a Renaissance City, ed. Kristin Love Huffman (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2024).
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Fall
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2024
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Book review of Beasts, Humans, and Transhumans in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance edited by J. Eugene Clay
Renaissance Quarterly
Spring
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2024
Renaissance Society of America
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New York, New York
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"Digital Study of a Renaissance Designed Landscape: the Sacro Bosco, Bomarzo, Italy
Renaissance Society of America annual conference
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(virtual)
December 3
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2022
Sponsored by Renaissance Society of America
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"3D Model Creation of a Renaissance Designed Landscape: the Sacro Bosco, Bomarzo, Italy
Duke University's Virtual Cities: Analyzing Fragmented History and a Built Future
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Universita di Padova, Italy
June 24
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2022
Sponsored by Duke University
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Visualizing Bomarzo: LiDAR and the interpretation of an enigmatic Renaissance landscape
Hidden Landscapes of the Past: Uncovering the Ancient World through Lidar
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Washington, D.C.
July
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2021
Sponsored by Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University)
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“Botanical Symbolism in the Sculptures at Bomarzo,”
Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
Spring
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2021
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Issue #41:2 (Spring 2021)
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Review of Raymond Waddington’s Titian's Aretino: A Contextual Study of All the Portraits
The Sixteenth Century Journal
Spring
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2020
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Vol. 51
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Issue #1
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Women of WAM: Depictions of Femininity in Early Modern Europe
Worcester Art Museum
May. 9, 2021
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Paradigms of the Grotesque
Chapter: “Letters on the Grotesque by Pirro Ligorio (c. 1512-1583),”Published by Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies Press
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2019
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Awards & Grants
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Digital Humanities Summer Institute Scholarship
Renaissance Society of America & the University of Victoria, CA
Jun. 12, 2023 - Jun. 17, 2023
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Fairchild Arts & Technology Grant
Sherman Fairchild Foundation
Jan. 1, 2024
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