Speaker: Shelley Perlove at Winter Michigania, Ring in the New Year, 2011-12

Shelley Perlove, (Ph.D. 1984, University of Michigan), is a distinguished scholar of Renaissance and Baroque art, and an esteemed teacher and public lecturer. She has been honored to receive three faculty awards for Distinguished Teaching and Research from the University of Michigan-Dearborn, where she is Full Professor. Dr. Perlove is the author of 7 books and exhibition catalogues and more than 30 articles. Her most recent, award-winning book , co-authored with Larry Silver, is titled Rembrandt’s Faith. Church and Temple in the Dutch Golden Age. An earlier book by Perlove, Bernini and the Idealization of Death, was honored by the Gustav Alt Humanities Book Award. Prof. Perlove has curated six exhibitions, three of which were devoted to Rembrandt’s etchings. She is author of a catalogue essay and is on the scientific team for the exhibition, “Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus,” which opened at the Louvre, and traveled to Philadelphia and opened in Detroit (November 20). Dr, Perlove was honored to give the Plenary Address to the Sixteenth Century Society in October 2011, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Historians of Netherlandish Art.