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Bruce M. Cole

Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Sciences
IU Bloomington

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, School of Fine Arts
College of Arts and Sciences

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature

Interests:

Art history, humanities, national endowment for the arts

Education:

• B.A. at Case Western Reserve University, 1962
• M.A. at Oberlin College, 1964
• Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr College, 1969

Background:

• Nominated by President George Bush to the National Council on Humanities, the advisory board to the National Endowment for the Humanities.
• Influential in the interpretation of Renaissance art.
• Member of the Academia Sienese Degli Intronati, the oldest learned academy in Europe.
• His book on Sienese painting won the President's Award of the American Association for Italian Studies.
• Co-author of "Art in the Western World" with Adelheid Gealt, director of the IU Art Museum.

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