Carmen C. Bambach

Carmen C. BAMBACH, born and raised in Chile, is the Marica F. and Jan T. Vilcek Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013), and is a leading specialist of Italian Renaissance art. She was awarded the Inaugural Vilcek Prize for Excellence by the Vilcek Foundation, New York, for her contribution to U. S. society and culture as an immigrant, New York, April 4, 2019. She was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in 2010-12 at CASVA-Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts- National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C; and has held numerous fellowships and grants, including John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence; "Rome Prize" (Post-Doctoral Fellowship), American Academy in Rome; Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center. She is author of books, Drawing and Painting in the Italian Renaissance Workshop: Theory and Practice, 1300-1600 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), awarded the "Premio Salimbeni 2000 per la Storia e Critica d’Arte" (Italy’s highest award for art books), and Una eredità difficile: i disegni ed i manoscritti di Leonardo tra mito e documento (Florence: Giunti Publishing Group, 2009). Her book Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019), 4 volumes, has won the First Prize, Premio internazionale Leonardo da Vinci (International Leonardo da Vinci Award, for a publication between 2009 and 2019). The text of her book on Leonardo divides as follows: vol. 1: The Making of an Artist 1452-1500; vol. 2: The Maturing of a Genius 1485-1506; vol. 3: The Late Years 1506-1519; vol. 4: Scholarly Apparatus to Volumes One, Two, and Three. Her exhibition Michelangelo Divine Draftsman and Designer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (November 6, 2017-February 13, 2018) was visited by 702,514 persons; and the book accompanying this exhibition, with the same title, won the Phyllis Goodhart Book Prize of the Renaissance Society of America in 2019. She has also organized or co-organized other exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and authored the accompanying catalogues, including The Drawings of Bronzino (2010); Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman (2003); Correggio and Parmigianino: Master Draughtsmen of the Renaissance (2000); The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle (1997); An Italian Journey: Italian Drawings from Correggio to Tiepolo from the Tobey Collection (2010); From Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna (2009); Genoa: Drawings and Prints, 1530-1800 (1996). She has taught at Fordham University, The Institute of Fine Arts-New York University, and Columbia University, and has published eighty scholarly articles.