Pamela Merrill Brekka
Professor of Instruction, Art History
Ph.D. University of °®¶¹´«Ã½
Phone: (813) 974-2360
Email: pmerrill@usf.edu
Office: FAH 252
Pamela Merrill Brekka specializes in Northern Renaissance and Baroque art. Her research interests include the history of cartography; infrared reflectography for the examination of underdrawings in paintings; the sixteenth-century Antwerp print market; Reformation era exegesis and the illustrated bible, and the history of Jewish art.
At °®¶¹´«Ã½, Brekka teaches the History of Visual Arts (HVA) I + II, and undergraduate surveys and seminars in Renaissance Cartography, Northern Renaissance Art and Dutch Baroque Art. She has taught at The University of Tampa, the University of °®¶¹´«Ã½, and Hillsborough Community College, Ybor.
Publications
Book Reviews
Nils Büttner, Hieronymus Bosch: Visions and Nightmares. London: Reaktion Books, 2016. Comitatus 48 (September 2017): 10-12.
Articles
"Tabernaculi interiori," in Voir double. Pièges et révélations du visible, edited by Michel Weemans, Dario Gamboni and Jean-Hubert Martin, 212-213. Translated by Jean-François Allain. Paris: Hazan, 2016.
"Picturing the 'Living' Tabernacle in the Antwerp Polyglot Bible," in The Anthropomorphic Lens: Anthropomorphism, Microcosmism and Analogy in Early Modern Thought and Visual Arts, edited by Walter Melion. Michel Weeman and Bret Rothstein, 207-230. Leiden: Brill. 2014.
"The Antwerp Polyglot's New World 'Indian-Jew' Map as a Reflection of Empire," Imago Mundi: International Journal for the History of Cartography, in "Doctoral Theses in Progress," edited by Elizabeth Baigent, vol. 63, part 2 (June 2011): 240-243.
"Pieter de Hooch," "Nicolaes Maes," "Pieter Brueghel the younger," and "Jan Breughel the elder" in Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution 1600-1720, edited by Christopher Baker, 35-35, 179-180, 247. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002.
"An Early Netherlandish Adoration of the Magi," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, vol. 59 (2000): 56-61.
"Hieronymus Francken's The Witches Sabbath: A Historical Perspective," in Patience and Passion: Old Master Paintings from the Arnold and Seena Davis Collection, 5-7. exh. cat. Fairfield: Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, 1995.
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