Gauvin Alexander Bailey

Alexander Bailey in Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, 2017.

Gauvin Alexander Baileyis an American-Canadianauthorandart historian.He is Professor and Alfred and Isabel Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art atQueen's University.

Bailey is a correspondent étranger at theAcadémie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres,Institut de Franceand a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Canada.He held the 2017 Panofsky Professorship at theZentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichtein Munich.

Early life and education

Bailey was born in Vancouver, B.C., on 8 July 1966. He attended theSchillergymnasium Münsteramong other schools, and graduated fromTrinity College, Torontoat theUniversity of Torontowith a B.A. in 1989 and M.A. in 1990, and fromHarvard Universitywith a Ph.D. in 1996.

Career

Bailey has taught Renaissance, Baroque, Latin American, and Asian art at King’s College at theUniversity of Aberdeen,Boston CollegeandClark University,where he was program director for Art History and twice won the Hodgkins Junior Faculty Teaching Award (1999, 2002), and he has held guest professorships at theZentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichtein Munich (as the 2017 Panofsky Professor),Boston UniversityandGeorgetown University.

Bailey at Australian National University, 22 October 2015

Research and publications

He has published nine books including, most recently,The Palace of Sans-Souci in Milot, Haiti (ca. 1806–13): the Untold Story of the Potsdam of the Rainforest(Deutscher Kunstverlag,2017) andArchitecture & Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire: State, Church and Identity, 1604–1830(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018). A tenth book entitledThe Architecture of Empire: France in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, 1664–1962will be published by Mcgill-Queen's University Press in 2022.He has also co-authored or co-edited seven other books and over 80 articles and book chapters on topics ranging from Renaissance ivories carved in the Philippines to Baroque paintings in Italy in a time ofPlague (disease),especiallyAnthony van Dyckand the cult ofSaint Rosalia.Bailey maintains an active international lecture schedule and has made over 100 presentations at academic institutions and museums on six continents, includingHarvard University,Yale University,theNew York University Institute of Fine Arts,the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at theNational Gallery of Art,theGetty Research Institute,theUniversity of Cambridge,theCourtauld Institute of Art(London), theUniversity of London,theUniversity of St. Andrews,theUniversity of Edinburgh,theInstitut de France,Sorbonne University,Sapienza University of Rome,theBibliotheca Hertziana,Rome,University of Heidelberg,University of Innsbruckand theMetropolitan Museum of Art,among many others, particularly in South America. His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. He regularly contributes exhibition and book reviews toThe Burlington MagazineandThe Art Newspaper.

Major Awards

• 2018National Endowment for the HumanitiesResearch Fellowship[1]
• 2018Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaInsight Grant.
• 2014National Endowment for the HumanitiesResearch Fellowship.NEH grant products: Art and Architecture in the French Atlantic World, 1608–1828
• 2014Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaInsight Development Grant.Diverse projects earn funding
• 2010Guggenheim Fellowship.
• 2010American Philosophical SocietyFranklin Research GrantFranklin Research Grants
• 2010Arts and Humanities Research CouncilFellowship.[2]
• 2010Carnegie Trust for the Universities of ScotlandGrant.Latin travels unearth ‘architectural treasures’ for Aberdeen academic | News | The University of Aberdeen
• 2009British AcademyResearch GrantSmall Research Grants: 2008–09 Round
• 2007Renaissance Society of AmericaRobert Lehman Foundation Research GrantRSA Fellowship Winners – Renaissance Society of America
• 2006American Philosophical SocietyFranklin Research GrantFranklin Research Grants
• 2005American Philosophical SocietyFranklin Research GrantFranklin Research Grants
• 2005National Endowment for the HumanitiesResearch FellowshipNEH grants
• 2003Renaissance Society of AmericaRobert Lehman Foundation Research GrantRSA Fellowship Winners – Renaissance Society of America
• 2000Villa I TattiHanna Kiel Fellowship
• 2000American Academy in RomeRome Prize
• 2000Renaissance Society of AmericaRobert Lehman Foundation Research GrantRSA Fellowship Winners – Renaissance Society of America

Books

• Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire: State, Church, and Society, 1604–1830,Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018,Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire | McGill-Queen’s University PressReviewed in Transactions of theSociety of Architectural HistoriansReview: Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire: State, Church, and Society, 1604–1830, by Gauvin Alexander Bailey,Canadian Architect,Journal of theRoyal Architectural Institute of CanadaBook Review: Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire;Transactions of theAncient Monuments SocietyTransactions – Ancient Monuments Societyand theJournal of Modern HistoryArchitecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire: State, Church, and Society, 1604–1830. By Gauvin Alexander Bailey. McGill-Queen’s French Atlantic Worlds Series, volume 1. Edited by Nicholas Dew and Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec.Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii+620. $67.50.
• Der Palast von Sans-Souci in Milot, Haiti (ca. 1806–1813): Das vergessene Potsdam im Regenwald/The Palace of Sans-Souci in Milot, Haiti (ca. 1806–13): The Untold Story of the Potsdam of the Rainforest.Berlin and Munich: Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte and Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2017.Deutscher Kunstverlag – VorschauReviewed inThe Art Newspaper.Book review | Henry I of Haiti: the little-known story of a king and his amazing building spree
• The Spiritual Rococo: Décor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia.Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014.The Spiritual Rococo: Decor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia
• Baroque & Rococo.London: Phaidon Press, 2012.Baroque & Rococo | Art | Phaidon StoreArchived2021-06-19 at theWayback MachineReviewed inThe SpectatorA selection of recent art books | The Spectator
• The Andean Hybrid Baroque: Convergent Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru,University of Notre Dame Press, 2010,The Andean Hybrid Baroque // Books // University of Notre Dame PressSpanish editionEl barroco andino híbrido: culturas convergentes en las iglesias del Sur Andinopublished by Ediciones El Lector, Arequipa, 2018.El Barroco Andino Híbrido. Culturas convergentes en las iglesias coloniales del Sur Andino – LIBROS PERUANOS
• Art of colonial Latin America,Phaidon, 2005,ISBN978-0-7148-4157-1[3]Archived2013-07-17 at theWayback MachineReviewed inThe TimesandThe Observer(a Book of the Year for 2005).Books of the year
• Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565–1610.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.[4]Archived2020-01-02 at theWayback Machine
• Art on the Jesuit missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542–1773,University of Toronto Press, 2001[5]Archived2018-07-12 at theWayback MachineWinner of the 2001 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize for Art and Music.
• The Jesuits and the Grand Mogul: Renaissance Art at the Imperial Court of India, 1580–1630.Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1998.[6]