| Prior to joining the faculty at LSU, Prof. Spieth curated and wrote the catalogue for an exhibition of 18th-century Venetian prints at Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum, and worked for a major blue-chip gallery in Cologne that specializes in early 20th-century Russian avant-garde art. More recently, his research has focused on French art and cultural history around 1800, resulting in articles on David’s Death of Marat and on the first Western portrait painter active in Egypt, Michel Rigo. His book Napoleon’s Sorcerers: The Sophisians, published by the University of Delaware Press in 2007, explores the Masonic contexts for the revived Isis cult in Napoleonic France. His current research focuses on art auctions and public spectacle in late nineteenth-century France. In addition to his degrees in art history, Prof. Spieth has an M.B.A. in finance from the International University of Japan and has co-authored a paper on statistical correlation patterns between international art prices and Japanese investment strategies in the 1980’s and early 1990’s. |
