Professor Emeritus
Biography
David Wilkins's many publications range from articles and monographs on the Florentine Renaissance to introductory textbooks on the history of world art. A passionately committed teacher and mentor, Prof. Wilkins has won top prizes for his teaching from both the University of Pittsburgh and teh College Art Association.
Education Details
PhD, University of Michigan
Selected Publications
The Collins Big Book of Art (general editor), 2006.
Revised fifth edition of Art Past/Art Present, by David Wilkins, Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn Linduff, Pearson & Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2004
Co-author for the Fifth Edition of Frederick Hartt and David G. Wilkins, History of Italian Renaissance Art, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and Harry Abrams, New York, 2002
The Search for A Patron in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, edited by David G. Wilkins and Rebecca L. Wilkins, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, 1996
The Illustrated Bartsch, volume 53 ("Pre-Rembrandt Etchers"), with Kahren J. (Hellerstedt) Arbitman, New York, Abaris Books, l985.
Donatello (British edition), with Bonnie A. Bennett, Oxford, Phaidon, 1984.
“Opening the Doors to Devotion: Trecento Triptychs and Suggestions Concerning Images and Domestic Practice in Florence,” in Victor M. Schmidt (ed.) Italian Panel Painting of the Duecento and Trecento (Studies in the History of Art, 61), Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2002, 371-93.
Selected Awards
National Award for Distinguished Teaching of Art History from the College Art Association, 2005
Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh, 1987