After living and teaching in Rome, Italy, for seven years, Dr. Barcham returned to the US where he taught at SUNY, Albany, and Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.  A specialist in Venetian art of the Renaissance and Baroque, he has presented papers and talks at conferences and seminars in the US, Italy, Germany and Russia, and has published numerous articles and several books.  His books include two on Giambattista Tiepolo, one each on Antonio Canaletto and Gianlorenzo Bernini, and he is currently preparing an exhibition on Venetian painting and sculpture that will take place at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York in 2011.

Prof. Barcham has won grants and prizes from the Teaching Institute of FIT, the Research Foundation of SUNY, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, which funded the Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome.  Dr. Barcham was honored with the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 2004.

Education:

B.A.   Hunter College, City University of New York
M.A.  New York University  (English)
M.A.  New York University  (History of Art)
Ph.D.  Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Current Courses:

HA 111  History of Western Art and Civilization: Ancient to Renaissance
HA 112  History of Western Art and Civilization: Renaissance to the Modern Era
HA 231  Modern Art
HA 392  Venetian Art from Titian to Tiepolo