| Ph.D., Columbia University. A specialist in Renaissance art, Professor Zucker has contributed seven volumes on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian engraving to The Illustrated Bartsch, a definitive series of scholarly reference books on Old Master prints. He has also published on various aspects of Renaissance art in leading international journals and is currently working on relationships between Italian Renaissance art and literature. Professor Zucker was the recipient in 2001 of LSU's Distinguished Faculty Award and was named J. Franklin Bayhi Alumni Professor of Art in 2003. He chaired a sesion on "The Italian Renaissance Print" at the 2002 conference of the College Art Association, and his paper "Homeliness and Humor in Renaissance Italy: Tales of Ugly (and Witty) Artists and Other Paragons of Ugliness" won the award for the best article of 2004 published in the journal Explorations in Renaissance Culture. Zucker is currently Professor and Art History Area Coordinator in Renaissance and Baroque Art. |
