History of Art and Architecture

David Wilkins, PhD

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