Gary Radke
Visual Arts

Gary M. Radke is professor of Fine Arts at Syracuse University . A fellow of the American Academy in Rome , he has received fellowship support from the Mellon Foundation, Kress Foundation, ACLS, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, among others. His publications include Viterbo: Profile of a Thirteenth-Century Papal Palace ( Cambridge , 1997) and, with John T. Paoletti, Art in Renaissance Italy, 3rd edition ( London and New York , 2005), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on Italian Renaissance architecture and sculpture. He is past president of the Italian Art Society and guest curator for exhibitions of Italian art at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. In 2001 he was guest curator of “Michelangelo: Drawings and other Treasures from the Casa Buonarroti, Florence”. In 2005 he curated “Verrocchio's David Restored” (the exhibition website is accessible at http://www.high.org/david) and is currently at work on a special project regarding the restoration of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise. Professor Radke’ss success in the classroom has been recognized by his being named a Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence and winning the William Wasserstrom Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching in 2005. In Spring 2006 he is teaching a course on the synergies of historic preservation and sustainable design with a professor in the Whitman School of Management and another on Leonardo da Vinci as artist and engineer with a colleague in Civil Engineering.

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