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As part of the campus\u2019 month-long celebration, \u201cArts in April,\u201d Delta State University will welcome Dr. Douglas Lewis, former curator for Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., to campus, Tuesday, April 18 at 12:15 p.m., in the art history lecture hall of Holcomb-Norwood. <\/P>
Lewis will present a lecture, \u201cMississippi\u2019s Surprising Architecture,\u201d which will include a slide presentation and commentary. <\/P>
His association with the National Gallery of Art in Washington lasted 40 years (1964-2004), 36 of which he served as Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts. He received his bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s and doctorate degrees in Art History from Yale University, as well as a bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s in Fine Arts from Clare College of the University of Cambridge. <\/P>
A Prix-de-Rome Fellow, Lewis holds a diploma in Classical Studies from the American Academy in Rome. The international fellowships for his doctoral research supported a three-year residence in Rome and Venice, and he has returned to Europe several times a year, ever since. He is an expert on Renaissance, Baroque, and 19th century painting, sculpture, and decorative arts.<\/P>
His principal books, among a list of some 150 publications, include \u201cThe Late Baroque Churches of Venice,\u201d Garland Press, New York, 1979; \u201cThe Drawings of Andrea Palladio,\u201d 1st ed. 1981, 2nd revised and enlarged ed., Martin-St. Martin, New Orleans, 2000; and \u201cRenaissance Bronze Reliefs and Plaquettes,\u201d vol. 1, 2006, and vol. 2, 2007 (being published by the National Gallery of Art). He was, most recently, selected as author of a forthcoming encyclopedic survey of \u201cThe Buildings of Mississippi,\u201d a component in the 50-volume series of \u201cThe Buildings of the United States\u201d that is co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Society of Architectural Historians.<\/P>
He has taught art and architectural history, and decorative arts, at a half-dozen of the country\u2019s pre-eminent universities, including Yale (1962-1964); Bryn Mawr (1967-1968); the University of California at Berkeley, in 1969-1970, as well as in 1979-1980; The Johns Hopkins University, 1973-1977; Georgetown University (in Washington, and also at the Georgetown Villa near Florence), 1980-1993; and at the University of Maryland, Honors Program (1993-2003), where he was voted Outstanding Advisor (for his work as Coach of the Men\u2019s Crew), and in 2000 as \u201cBest Teacher on Campus.\u201d <\/P>
Currently, Lewis lives on his family\u2019s 203-year-old plantation in southern Mississippi.<\/P>
The lecture will be free and open to public. For more on this event or any associated with the \u201cArts in April\u201d festival, please contact Dr. Mark Butler, Chair of the Delta State Special Programs Committee, at (662) 846-4619 or mbutler@deltastate.edu<\/A>.<\/P> <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Douglas Lewis As part of the campus\u2019 month-long celebration, \u201cArts in April,\u201d Delta State University will welcome Dr. Douglas Lewis, former curator for Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the National…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40385,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/40385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}