Gauvin Alexander Bailey

Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, 2017

With Xia Junbo, Director of the Beijing Temple of Heaven Museum, at the Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, October 2016

Bailey at Australian National University, 22 October 2015

At Trinity College, University of Cambridge, 8 May 2014

Bailey at the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, 23 March 2011

Gauvin Alexander Bailey is an American-Canadian author and art historian. He is Professor and Alfred and Isabel Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen's University.^[1] He graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.A. in 1989 and M.A. in 1990, and from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1996.

Professor Bailey is a correspondent étranger at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Institut de France ^[2] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He held the 2017 Panofsky Professorship at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich.

Gauvin Alexander Bailey has taught Renaissance, Baroque, Latin American, and Asian art at King’s College at the University of Aberdeen, Boston College, and Clark University, and has held guest professorships at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich (as the 2017 Panofsky Professor), Boston University, and the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) in Bogotá. He has curated and served as consultant on museum exhibitions at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Philadelphia Museum, the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon), and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, among others, and has 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. He has published nine books including, most recently, The Palace of Sans-Souci in Milot, Haiti (ca. 1806-13): the Untold Story of the Potsdam of the Rainforest (Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2017) and Architecture & Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire: State, Church and Identity, 1604-1830 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018). He has also co-authored or co-edited seven other books and over 70 articles and book chapters on topics ranging from Renaissance ivories carved in the Philippines to Italian Baroque paintings in a time of plague. Bailey maintains an active international lecture schedule and has made over 100 presentations at academic institutions and museums on six continents, and his work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. He regularly contributes exhibition and book reviews to The Burlington Magazine and The Art Newspaper.^[3]

In 2017, Bailey and his graduate students launched the Colonial Architecture Project. The website makes publicly accessible thousands of high quality photographs of colonial architecture from the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Spanish Empires.

He is currently working on a tenth book, entitled Architecture and Urbanism in the French Empire: Indian & Pacific Oceans, 1664–1914.

Major Awards

• 2018 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant.^[4]
• 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship.
• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship.^[5]
• 2010 Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship.
• 2000 Villa I Tatti Hanna Kiel Fellowship^[6]

Books

• Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire: State, Church, and Society, 1604-1830, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018, Reviewed in Canadian Architect, Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
• Der Palast von Sans-Souci in Milot, Haiti (ca. 1806–1813): Das vergessene Potsdam im Regenwald/The Palace of Sans-Souci in Milot, Haiti (ca. 1806–13): The Untold Story of the Potsdam of the Rainforest. Berlin and Munich: Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte and Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2017. Reviewed in The Art Newspaper.
• The Spiritual Rococo: Décor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014.
• Baroque & Rococo. London: Phaidon Press, 2012. Reviewed in The Spectator
• The Andean Hybrid Baroque: Convergent Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru, University of Notre Dame Press, 2010, Spanish edition El barroco andino híbrido: culturas convergentes en las iglesias del Sur Andino published by Ediciones El Lector, Arequipa, 2018.
• Art of colonial Latin America, Phaidon, 2005, ISBN 978-0-7148-4157-1 Reviewed in The Times and The Observer (a Book of the Year for 2005).

• Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565–1610. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
• Art on the Jesuit missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773, University of Toronto Press, 2001
• The Jesuits and the Grand Mogul: Renaissance Art at the Imperial Court of India, 1580–1630. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1998.

Lectures and Interviews

• Review 'The enchanted world of Bodys Isek Kingelez' in Burlington Contemporary 1 October 2018
• Lecture 'L'Affaire de Kourou' at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, 7 September 2018
• Interview 'How the Color Blue Changed Art Forever' 14 June 2018 CNN Style
• Interview 'World-renowned early music specialist Ton Koopman and his Amsterdam Baroque Choir to treat Hong Kong to a musical feast' 10 May 2018 South China Post
• Lecture 'Art of the Gesu: Bernini and his Age' at Fairfield University Art Museum, 1 February 2018
• Lecture 6 'From the Rue Saint-Jacques to the Paraguayan Outback: the Itinerant lives of Rococo Decorative prints in 18th-Century South America' June 2013 at the Getty Research Institute
• Lecture 'The Great Debate: "Mestizo Baroque" and Latin American Architectural History" at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, March 2013
• Lecture 'The Andean Hybrid Baroque' 6 October 2010 at the University of St Andrews
• Interview 'A Backpacker's Mission: Travel through South America in search of the legacy of the Jesuit missionaries.' 15 January 2006 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Interview in the documentary Xavier (Fourth Week Films, 2006), featuring Liam Neeson.
• Interview 'A Vanished El Dorado' Archaeology Magazine March/April 2001
• Interview in the documentary The Face: Jesus in Art (PBS, 2001), featuring Ricardo Montalban and others.
• Interview PBS NOVA "Sultan's Lost Treasure", PBS Airdate: January 16, 2001

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