Stephen J. Campbell, Ph.D.

Stephen Campbell is the Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Campbell is a specialist in Italian art of the 15th and 16th centuries. His work has focused on the artistic culture of North Italian cities, court artists such as Ferrarese painter Cosmè Tura, the representation of Judaism in Christian art, the rise of mythological painting and the history of collecting. He has also published articles on aspects of Giorgione, the Carracci, Agnolo Bronzino, Michelangelo and Rosso Fiorentino.

His are recent books The Endless Periphery: Towards a Geography of Art in Lorenzo Lotto’s Italy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019) and Andrea Mantegna: Humanist Aesthetics, Faith, and the Force of Images (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020).

Dr. Campbell was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A. 1985), the University of North Carolina (M.A. 1987) and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1993). Before joining the faculty of Johns Hopkins in 2002, he taught at Case Western Reserve University, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1993, he published a book for a general audience on the Great Irish Famine of 1847-1851, with a preface by President of Ireland Mary Robinson. In 2002 he was guest curator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, for the exhibition Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara.

Dr. Campbell has held post-doctoral fellowships at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington.