INVENTORY OF THE LEO STEINBERG RESEARCH PAPERS, 1945-1996,
bulk 1950-1993
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INVENTORY OF THE LEO STEINBERG RESEARCH PAPERS, 1945-1996,
bulk 1950-1993
Accession no. 930046
Finding aid prepared by Rose Lachman
Getty Research Institute
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Leo Steinberg research papers
Date (inclusive): 1945-1996
Date (bulk): 1950-1993
Collection number: 930046
Creator:
Steinberg, Leo, 1920-
Extent:
ca. 12 linear ft.
(28
boxes)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA
90049-1688
Abstract: Art historian, critic, lecturer, and professor. The papers consist of research notes, correspondence relating to Steinberg's
lectures and essays, papers written by his students, several versions of some of his essays, an abandoned dissertation project,
and many of his notebooks from courses he took at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York. The archive reflects Steinberg's career
as an art critic, lecturer, and teacher, ca. 1945-ca.1996.
Language: Collection material in English
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Leo Steinberg research papers, 1945-1996
(bulk 1950-1993), Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no.
930046.
Acquisition Information
Received from Leo Steinberg, in two acquisitions, 1993, 1996.
Processing History
Jocelyn Gibbs processed and wrote a box list for the first acquisition
(accession no. 930046). A supplementary acquisition (accession no. 960096) was
moved to this collection and processed by Rose Lachman.
Biographical/Historical Note
Leo Steinberg, art historian, critic, lecturer and professor, was born
in Russia in 1920 and lived in Berlin and London before emigrating to the
United States in 1938. After studying at the Slade School of Art in London, he
entered the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in the mid-1950s
(Ph.D., 1960), where he studied art and architecture with historians Harry
Bober, Richard Krautheimer, Karl Lehmann, Wolfgang Lotz, Erwin Panofsky, Alfred
Salmony and Charles Sterling. In 1958 and 1959 he was a guest of the American
Academy in Rome, where he researched and wrote his dissertation on the baroque
architect Francesco Borromini.
Steinberg taught drawing and art history at Hunter College and the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York from 1961 to 1975, and ended
his teaching career as Benjamin Franklin Professor at the University of
Pennsylvania (1975-1991). His lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Studio School in New York, Columbia University, and elsewhere attracted a broad
audience of artists, art lovers and scholars. As an art critic, he is known for
his writings on historical subjects and individual artists, as well as on
modern and contemporary art subjects.
Published works range from short reviews and essays to book-length
studies and include
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, a study in multiple form and
architectual symbolism
, 1960;
Jasper Johns, 1963;
Other Criteria, 1972 (compilation of 18 essays);
Michelangelo's last paintings, the Conversion of St. Paul and the
Crucifixion of St. Peter in the Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace
, 1975;
The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance art and in modern
oblivion
, 1983.
Leo Steinberg is the first art historian to receive the Award in
Literature from the American Academy and the Institute for Arts and Letters
(1983). He also received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art
Criticism from the College Art Association (1984), and a MacArthur Fellowship
(1986).
Scope and Content of Collection
The Leo Steinberg Research Papers consist of research notes,
correspondence relating to his lectures and essays, papers written by his
students, several versions of some of his essays, an abandoned dissertation
project, and many of his notebooks from courses he took at the Institute of
Fine Arts, New York University. The archive reflects Steinberg's career as an
art critic, lecturer and teacher from ca. 1945-ca. 1996. Correspondence from
ca.1993-1996 consists mainly of letters and notes by Steinberg about the
archive.
The research notes and course notebooks, which contain numerous
photographs, give a clear picture of Steinberg's topics of interest. The
artists he concentrated on include Francesco Borromini, Auguste Rodin and
Titian (boxes 1-8). The correspondence deals mostly with lectures he gave at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and elsewhere (boxes 9-10); the publication
series refers almost exclusively to the essays compiled in his book
Other Criteria (boxes 11 and 12, the latter an audio
tape). The abandoned dissertation,
Afterlife of Romanesque, reflects his interest in
romanesque art and architecture under the influence of his professor, Richard
Krautheimer (box 13); and the course notebooks contain his notes from his
student days with such distinguished art historians as Erwin Panofsky, Richard
Krautheimer, Charles Sterling, Karl Lehmann, Alfred Salmony, Harry Bober and
Wolfgang Lotz (boxes 14-28).
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Borromini, Francesco, 1599-1667
Johns, Jasper, 1930-
Rodin, Auguste,1840-1917
Titian, ca. 1488-1576
Art critics—United States
Art historians—United States
Art—History—Study and teaching (Graduate)—United States
Art, Modern—History
Genres and Forms of Material
Notebooks
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
Contributors
Barr, Margaret Scolari, 1901-1987
Bober, Harry, 1915-
Canaday, John, 1907-
Chastel, André, 1912-
Cohen, Gerson D. (Gerson David), 1924-
D'Harnoncourt, Rene, 1901-1968
Goldwater, Robert John, 1907-1973
Held, Julius Samuel, 1905-
Janson, H. W. (Horst Woldemar), 1913-
Kitzinger, Ernst, 1912-
Kramer, Hilton
Krautheimer, Richard, 1897-
Lavin, Irving, 1927-
Lehmann, Karl, 1894-1960
Leider, Philip, 1929-
Lotz, Wolfgang, 1912-
Lowry, Bates, 1923-
Michelson, Annette
Panofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968
Salmony, Alfred, 1890-1958
Sterling, Charles, 1901-
Weissberger, Herbert, 1892-
Wittkower, Rudolf
Art journal (New York, N.Y.)
Arts (New York (New York, N.Y.)
Series I.
Borromini research,
1953-1993
bulk
1953-1960
Physical Description:
2 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Series contains research notes and
photographs accumulated by Steinberg for his dissertation on Francesco
Borromini, written 1958/1959. Primary sites described include S. Carlino, S.
Agnese, S. Ivo, Palazzo Falconieri and Palazzo Spada. This series also includes
correspondence with Rudolf Wittkower and Erwin Hainisch; lecture given at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
and Harvard; articles by Paolo Portoghesi; and original typescript of the
dissertation.
Box 1, Folder 1
S. Carlino - Albertina drawings & non-Albertina
drawings
Scope and Content Note
3 pp ltr (July 1993) from Steinberg to Kevin Salatino (curator, Getty
Research Library) explaining items in this file; 2 sets of numbered registers for
Albertina's Borromini drawings, re-constructed by Steinberg in the course of his
research; notes, many with drawings, including notes made by Margot Scolari
(Daisy) Barr at the Albertina for Steinberg Ca. 60 items
Box 1, Folder 2
Correspondence with Wittkower,
ca.
1960-1967
Scope and Content Note
1 explanatory note from Steinberg (dated June 1993); 6 letters
between Steinberg and Wittkower; 8 pp. "Appendix IV: Borromini and Stoicism" (by
Wittkower?), with pencil annotations by Steinberg
Box 1, Folder 3
Correspondence with Albertina, 7 ltrs,
1960-1961,
1976-1977
77
Scope and Content Note
Ltrs between Steinberg and Erwin Hainisch regarding access to Borromini
drawings at the Albertina (1960-1961); later correspondence regarding reproduction
rights (1976-1977)
Box 1, Folder 4
Wolfgang Lotz comments on Steinberg's dissertation, 2
sheets, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 5
S. Carlino - interior, excluding dome and conches
photographs
Scope and Content Note
ca. 30 items
Box 1, Folder 6
S. Carlino - dome pattern
Scope and Content Note
34 photographs, some negatives, notes, some printed material
Box 1, Folder 7
S. Carlino - diagram, drawings notes, drawings,
photographs
Scope and Content Note
ca. 60 items
Box 1, Folder 8
S. Carlino - vedute
Scope and Content Note
notes, some correspondence regarding obtaining photographs, photographs, printed
material, ca. 25 items
Box 1, Folder 9
S. Carlino - crypt and cloister
Scope and Content Note
photographs with some annotations, ca. 13 items
Box 1, Folder 10
S. Carlino - exterior
Scope and Content Note
photographs, 21 items
Box 1, Folder 11
S. Carlino - inverted volutes
Scope and Content Note
notes, photographs, printed material, negatives, ca. 12 items
Box 1, Folder 12
S. Carlino - Introduction
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes, ca. 15 items
Box 1, Folder 13
S. Carlino - photographs of drawings
Scope and Content Note
Berlin, 30 photographs from Kunstbibliothek, plus handwritten
inventory list with negative nos.
Box 1, Folder 14
S. Carlino - miscellaneous
Scope and Content Note
notes, 1 letter, copies of drawings, ca. 12 items
Box 1, Folder 15
S. Carlino - miscellaneous
Scope and Content Note
printed material, photographs, notes, ca. 15 items
Box 2, Folder 1
S. Carlino - miscellaneous notes
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes, ca. 30 items
Box 2, Folder 2
S. Carlino - miscellaneous notes & drawings
Scope and Content Note
notes, drawings, 1 letter, ca. 20 items
Box 2, Folder 3
S. Carlino - miscellaneous "new matter to
consider"
Scope and Content Note
notes, some typed, ca. 30 items
Box 2, Folder 4
Bernini-Borromini lectures,
1960
Scope and Content Note
7 typed lectures, with annotations, given at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, NY, and Harvard, Spring 1960
Box 2, Folder 5
San Carlino lecture,
1960
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes ("to recast & condense S. Carlo lecture")
& typed annotated lecture given at the Met and Harvard, Spring 1960
Box 2, Folder 6
Borromini - not S. Carlino, notes
Scope and Content Note
2 small notebooks, 1 bundle of loose notes
Box 2, Folder 7
S. Maria dei Sette Dolori
Scope and Content Note
notes, drawings, annotated photographs, ca. 25 items
Box 2, Folder 8
S. Agnese / Palazzo Pamphili
Scope and Content Note
notes, drawings, photographs, ca. 15 items
Box 2, Folder 9
Lateran
Scope and Content Note
notes, printed material, drawings, photographs, ca. 60 items
Box 2, Folder 10
Oratorio
Scope and Content Note
notes, drawings, photographs, ca. 80 items
Box 2, Folder 11
S. Ivo - text
Scope and Content Note
notes, drawings, photographs, some printed material, ca. 60 items
Box 2, Folder 12
S. Ivo - notes
Scope and Content Note
notes in several small bundles, 7 letters with Konrad Hoffman,
1962, ca. 30 items
Box 2, Folder 13
S. Ivo - photographs
Scope and Content Note
20 items
Box 3, Folder 1
Propaganda Fide
Scope and Content Note
photographs and notes, drawings, ca. 30 items
Box 3, Folder 2
Articles by P. Portoghesi,
1953-1956,
1958
Scope and Content Note
9 issues or parts of issues of
Quaderni dell 'architettura,
with articles by Paolo Portoghesi; 3 offprints by
Portoghesi on Borromini
Box 3, Folder 3
P. Portoghesi World encyclopedia article on
Borromini
Scope and Content Note
typescript (translated into English), ca. 25 pp.
Box 3, Folder 4
Borromini drawings, miscellaneous & "destination
uncertain"
Scope and Content Note
16 photographs, some heavily annotated
Box 3, Folder 5
Palazzo Spada
Scope and Content Note
18 photographs, 2 drawings (1 ink drawing on tracing paper)
Box 3, Folder 6
Palazzo Carpegna
Scope and Content Note
7 p of notes with drawings, 1 photograph
Box 3, Folder 7
Falconieri - Palazzo a villa
Scope and Content Note
12 photographs of building, and drawings, some with annotations; 4 pp of
notes
Box 3, Folder 8
Kate Ganz paper regarding Falconieri
ceilings,
1968
Scope and Content Note
written for Wittkower, with a note from Ganz to Steinberg
Box 3, Folder 9
S. Sabina - cell of St. Dominic
Scope and Content Note
notes, 1 photograph, 5 items
Box 3, Folder 10
S. Giovanni in Oleo
Scope and Content Note
5 sheets of notes with drawings, 4 photographs
Box 3, Folder 11
S. Lucia in Selci
Scope and Content Note
7 sheets of notes, 6 photographs
Box 3, Folder 12
Palazzo Giustiniani
Scope and Content Note
5 sheets of notes, 1 offprint, 1 photograph
Box 3, Folder 13
Biblioteca Angelica
Scope and Content Note
1 drawing, 1 photograph of interior
Box 3, Folder 14
miscellaneous photographs
Scope and Content Note
5 photographs mounted on 3 boards, various buildings.
Box 3, Folder 15
S. Giovanni dei Florentino - Falconieri
chapel
Scope and Content Note
4 sheets of notes
Box 3-4
Dissertation - original typescript as photographed &
republished by Garland, 1977
Scope and Content Note
Dissertation written 1958-1959, NYU, S. Carlo alle quattro
Fontane
Series II.
Rodin research,
1962-1977
Physical Description:
2 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Series contains photographs,
clippings, and notes for Steinberg's essay "Rodin: Sculptures and Drawings,"
published as introduction to an exhibition catalog for the Charles E. Slatkin
Galleries, NY, May, 1963 and in
Other Criteria. Most of the photographs are by Farrell
Grehan.
Box 4, Folder 4
Rodin groups
Scope and Content Note
ca. 10 photographs, printed material, some notes, ca. 15 items
Box 4, Folder 5
Rodin - abstracts and clippings
Scope and Content Note
ca. 16 pp. notes & a few printed materials, mostly
articles
Box 4, Folder 6
Rodin correspondence,
1962-1963,
1971
Scope and Content Note
with Charles Slatkin of Charles Slatkin, Inc. Galleries, NY: 13
letters, most regarding Rodin exhibit
Box 4, Folder 7
Rodin notes, miscellaneous
Scope and Content Note
ca. 25 items
Box 4, Folder 8
Rodin - Esen notes &
correspondence,
1962-1963,
1971,
1977
Scope and Content Note
8 letters with Albert Esen; Esen 2 pp typed
notes regarding Steinberg essay on Rodin (publ. 1962) with Steinberg annotations; notes, ca. 25
items
Box 4, Folder 9
Rodin - on working stone
Scope and Content Note
notes and parts of draft essay, 11 sheets
Box 4, Folder 10
Rodin - unused notes,
1962,
1969,
1971
Scope and Content Note
notes, with drawings, ca. 50 pp.
Box 4, Folder 11
Rodin - Durig estate - fakes,
1969
Scope and Content Note
4 letters (1969): 3 regarding Durig estate of 154 drawings, presumably
by Rodin, on which Steinberg gave an assessment; 1 letter from unidentified collector
regarding a "Rodin" watercolor; photographs, notes, printed material, ca. 50 items
Box 5, Folder 1-2
Rodin - miscellaneous photographs and clippings I
Scope and Content Note
ca. 80 items
Box 5, Folder 3
Rodin - miscellaneous photographs and clippings II
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 items
Box 5, Folder 4
Rodin - miscellaneous photographs and clippings III
Scope and Content Note
ca. 30 items
Box 5, Folder 5
Rodin - gates and related works (1880-1885?)
Scope and Content Note
photographs and clippings, 10 items
Box 5, Folder 6
Rodin - broken nose
Scope and Content Note
photographs and notes regarding man with broken nose sculpture, 5 items
Box 5, Folder 7
Balzac
Scope and Content Note
5 photographs
Box 5, Folder 8
Rodin afterlife
Scope and Content Note
notes, most regarding influence of Rodin on later artists, 4 items
Box 5, Folder 9
Rodin Q
Scope and Content Note
notes & printed material regarding Rodin's sources, ca. 30
items
Box 5, Folder 10
Rodin figures, 183-232
Scope and Content Note
photographs, most marked for publication, ca. 30 items
Box 5, Folder 11
Rodin figures, 233 ff
Scope and Content Note
photographs, 22 items
Box 5, Folder 12
Burghers of Calais
Scope and Content Note
photographs, notes, clippings, ca. 40 items
Box 5, Folder 13
Rodin - miscellaneous photographs
Scope and Content Note
ca. 30 photographs, with some printed material (include clipping regarding
Ernst Durig estate) and notes
Box 5, Folder 14
Rodin hands
Scope and Content Note
photographs, negatives, ca. 15 items
Box 5, Folder 15
Rodin - Farrell Grehan photographs
Scope and Content Note
27 photographs & 1 letter from Steinberg to Grehan
Box 5, Folder 16
Rodin - Farrell Grehan photographs
Scope and Content Note
10 items
Box *6
Rodin oversize photographs
Scope and Content Note
9 photographs, 8 mounted, all by Farrell Grehan
Series III.
Titian research,
1965-1986
Physical Description:
1 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Series contains notes, drawings and
photographs for Steinberg's lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) on Titian's Presentation of the
Virgin; also typescript of David Rosand's article on Titian.
Box 7, Folder 1
Titian's Presentation of the Virgin
Scope and Content Note
ca. 30 photographs, some printed material, notes with drawings
Box 7, Folder 2
Titian's Presentation - David Rosand,
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 4 pp letter from Steinberg to David Rosand (June 1973) regarding Steinberg
contributing a paragraph to Rosand article; copies of Rostand's articles; ca. 60
page typescript of Rostand essay, "Lux Mundi" (regarding Titian's Presentation)
Box 7, Folder 3
Titian - La Veccia - notes
Scope and Content Note
9 pp of notes
Box 7, Folder 4
Tiziano
Scope and Content Note
spiral bound notebook of notes, with drawings (some notes in a
hand not Steinberg's)
Box 7, Folder 5
Robert Torchia paper on Titian's
Presentation
Scope and Content Note
typescript, with some annotations by Steinberg, dated May 1986 (Torchia a
graduate student at University of Pennsylvania)
Box 7, Folder 6
Titian lecture, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
1965
Scope and Content Note
lecture and outline, typescripts with annotations, ca. 35
pp.
Box 8
Titian's Presentation; notes
Scope and Content Note
on index cards and small
note paper
Series IV.
Correspondence and lectures,
1952-1995
Physical Description:
1.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Series contains correspondence about
lecture series presented by Steinberg at the Metropolitan and elsewhere. Correspondents
include Gerson Cohen, Rene d'Harnoncourt, John Canaday, Margaret Scolari Barr,
André Chastel, Julius Held, H.S. Janson, Irving Lavin, Annette Michelson
and Phil Leider. Correspondence with Hilton Kramer concerns Steinberg's column
in
Arts. Many letters are in response to Steinberg's
lecture, "Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion." An
offprint of his essay, "Eve's Idle Hand," published in
Art Journal 1975/1976 is included along with student
papers based on the essay.
Box 9, Folder 1
Letters regarding lectures (excluding Metropolitan Museum of Art),
1952-1973
Scope and Content Note
34 items; includes letter from Steinberg to Gerson Cohen
(1970 Nov 16) from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities about
giving a lecture series. Correspondents include Rene d'Harnoncourt, John
Canaday and Gerson Cohen.
Box 9, Folder 2
Letters regarding lectures at Metropolitan Museum of Art,
1957-1960
Scope and Content Note
54 items
Box 9, Folder 3
Letters regarding publications and articles,
1955,
1961-1986
Scope and Content Note
6 items; includes entry for Steinberg in
Who's Who in World Jewry 1955.
Box 9, Folder 4
Correspondence with Hilton Kramer,
1955-1979
Scope and Content Note
9 items; regarding column Steinberg wrote for
Arts magazine (1955-1960); with later explanatory comments from Steinberg (Dec 1996); includes letter from Annette Michelson (1979
Oct 22) about article she
wrote as editor for
October
Box 9, Folder 5
Letters regarding column in
Arts,
1953-1960
Scope and Content Note
24 items; includes letter from Josef Albers (1956 Apr 30) and letter
regarding CAA annual Frank J. Mather Award given to Steinberg, 1958.
Box 9, Folder 6
Articles regarding essay on Jasper Johns,
1975-1996
Scope and Content Note
8 items; with later explanatory comments by Steinberg (Dec 1996) about
corrections to the literature; includes correspondence with German critic,
Willi Bongard.
Box 9, Folder 7
Letters from scholars,
1958-1992
Scope and Content Note
16 items; includes letters from Margaret Scolari Barr,
André Chastel, Julius Held, H.W. Janson, Irving Lavin and Phil
Leider.
Box 9, Folder 8
"Sexuality of Christ" Lionel Trilling lecture,
1981 Nov 19
Scope and Content Note
34 items; includes correspondence with proposal for the lecture
and followed by letters about the lecture: "Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance
Art and in Modern Oblivion."
Box 9, Folder 9
Subsequent lectures based on Sexuality of Christ...,
1982-1983
Scope and Content Note
32 items; correspondence about lectures Steinberg gave in
Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York Hospital, Yale and Northwestern
University.
Box 9, Folder 10
Paper by Helena Schulz-Keil,
1986
Scope and Content Note
Paper written in response to "Sexuality of Christ...", includes
letter from Schulz-Keil.
Box 9, Folder 11
Bowdoin College commencement address, and memorial
tribute to Albert Elsen,
1995
Scope and Content Note
2 items; Steinberg received honorary Ph.D. at Bowdoin; Elsen
tribute was published in College Art Association newsletter.
Box 9, Folder 12
Report on teaching art history,
1956
Scope and Content Note
report written for Parsons School of Design.
Box 9, Folder 13
Student paper:
"Michelangelo's Victory,"
1979
Scope and Content Note
3 items; includes Steinberg's edits on paper and 2 letters from
student Maud Lavin.
Box 9, Folder 14
"Eve's Idle Hand,"
1975-1976
Scope and Content Note
29 items; includes Steinberg offprint from
Art Journal; correspondence with students; papers
from Hunter College students based on Steinberg's essay.
Box 10
Reading and lecture notes on 17th century Italian
painting,
1960
Scope and Content Note
ending with Sebastiano Mazzoni (Mazzoni lecture given at Metropolitan Museum of Art,
1960).
Series V.
Publications: Manuscripts and Letters,
1962-1996
Physical Description:
1 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Series contains correspondence,
reviews, and versions of several of the essays included in
Other Criteria. This series also contains a folder of
clippings with citations for Steinberg's publications used by various authors,
and an audio tape interview of Paul Brach by Clare Spark Loeb about
Other Criteria.
Box 11, Folder 1
"The Algerian Women and Picasso at Large"
Scope and Content Note
penultimate version of essay published in
Other Criteria, 1972. includes annotations, 71
pp.
Box 11, Folder 2
"Creation of Adam"
Scope and Content Note
early version of essay for
Art Bulletin, (Dec 1992) with annotations; sections:
Devil's Due, Rebel Angels and Creation.
Box 11, Folder 3
"Picasso's Sleepwatchers"
Scope and Content Note
essay as it appeared in
Life Magazine, (1968 Dec 27); includes 15 letters from
friends, published letters to the editors appearing in
Life Magazine (1969 Jan 24) and article by critic,
Hilton Kramer in
The New York Times (1969 Jan 5). The essay was also
published in
Other Criteria.
Box 11, Folder 4
Other Criteria,
1971,
1976,
1978
Scope and Content Note
12 items; correspondence regarding permission for photo reproductions,
fees and reprints of articles for the book of essays (1971, 1976, 1978).
Box 11, Folder 5
Other Criteria,
1962-1972
Scope and Content Note
33 items; correspondence about the essays, primarily before they
were included in the book; includes letters from Al Elsen and 3 letters from
Steinberg (bulk 1972).
Box 11, Folder 6
Other Criteria,
1973
Scope and Content Note
24 items; letters from friends regarding the book.
Box 11, Folder 7
Other Criteria,
1974-1996
Scope and Content Note
39 items; correspondence regarding the book includes 2 letters from
Steinberg.
Box 11, Folder 8
Other Criteria,
1972
Scope and Content Note
14 items; pre-publication reviews.
Box 11, Folder 9
Other Criteria,
1972-1976
Scope and Content Note
61 items; published reviews.
Box 11, Folder 10
Other Criteria,
1972
Scope and Content Note
5 items; typescript transcript (10 pp) of Paul Brach (Dean of
the School of Art at California Institute of the Arts) interview by Clare
Spark-Loeb regarding
Other Criteria (1972 Dec 12); includes 2 letters and 2
announcements.
Box 11, Folder 11
Clippings of citations
Scope and Content Note
28 items; citations by various authors of Steinberg essays and
publications; annotations by Steinberg; many citations sent to Steinberg by his
friend, Andrea Kirsch.
Box 12
Other Criteria,
1972
Scope and Content Note
audio tape of Paul Brach interview by Clare Spark-Loeb regarding
Other Criteria.
Series VI.
Abandoned dissertation,
1956
Physical Description:
0.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Series contains research notes,
illustrations and bibliographic notecards for Steinberg's abandoned
dissertation project, "Afterlife of Romanesque." Files include first three
chapters and research material for chapters IV and V.
Box 13, Folder 1
Dissertation project
Scope and Content Note
Abandoned dissertation,
Afterlife of Romanesque, chapter I (1956 Oct 2);
includes letter to Prof. Richard Krautheimer.
Box 13, Folder 2
Afterlife of Romanesque, chapter II
Box 13, Folder 3
Afterlife of Romanesque, chapter III
Box 13, Folder 4
Material for chapter IV and
conclusions
Box 13, Folder 5
Material for chapter V,
Romanesque in Northern Renaissance.
Box 13, Folder 6
Research notes from
readings
Box 13, Folder 7
Illustrations with
annotations
Scope and Content Note
7 sketches, 11 photoprints
Box 13, Folder 8
notes and comments on
romanesque, gothic, renaissance and later
Box 13, Folder 9
old representations of
romanesque
Box 13, Folder 10
Notes
Scope and Content Note
reliance on literary
sources; surface thinking; anti-clericalism; antiquarian attitude; patriotic
considerations; periodization and terminology.
Box 13, Folder 11
Notes
Scope and Content Note
Is romanesque a
style or a transition only; romanesque architecture defined;
internationalization; on romanesque (C17, C18).
Box 13, Folder 12
Notes
Scope and Content Note
conceptualization of
romanesque (C19); Viollet-le-Duc; new material; book resumes (E. de Beer, M.
Schapiro); oblivion of romanesque; destruction of romanesque.
Series VII.
Course notes,
1950-1963
Physical Description:
4 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Series contains notes taken by
Steinberg for courses he attended as a student at the Institute of Fine Arts,
NYU from 1950-1963. Most include illustrations and photographs. Professors
include Erwin Panofsky, Herbert Weissberger, Charles Sterling, Karl Lehmann,
Alfred Salmony, Harry Bober, Richard Krautheimer, Bates Lowry, Wolfgang Lotz,
Robert Goldwater and Ernst Kitzinger.
Box 14, Folder 1
Course notebook,
Fall 1952
Scope and Content Note
1st notebook from course audited by Steinberg, Early Netherlandish
Painting, fall 1952, taught by Erwin Panofsky at Institute of Fine Arts,
NYU.
Box 14, Folder 2
Course notebook, 1952-1953
Scope and Content Note
2nd notebook from course audited by Steinberg, Early Netherlandish
Painting, lectures 8-14, 1952-53, taught by Erwin Panofsky, Institute of Fine
Arts, NYU.
Box 14, Folder 3
Course notebook,
Summer 1950
Scope and Content Note
with photographs from course audited by Steinberg, Islamic art, taught by Herbert Weissberger, NYU.
Box 14, Folder 4
Course notebook,
Feb 1961
Scope and Content Note
from course audited by Steinberg as post-graduate student, 15th century
French painting, taught by Charles Sterling.
Box 14, Folder 5
Course notebook,
Feb 1961
Scope and Content Note
from course audited by Steinberg as post-graduate student, 17th century
French painting, taught by Charles Sterling.
Box 15
Course notebook,
Fall 1951
Scope and Content Note
and 1 folder of notes, with photographs, from course audited by Steinberg,
Egyptian art, taught by Karl Lehmann, NYU.
Box 16
Two course notebooks,
1951
Scope and Content Note
with photographs and inserted notes from course audited by Steinberg, Art of
the Stone Age, taught by Alfred Salmony, NYU.
Box 17
Course notebook,
1952
Scope and Content Note
with photographs from course audited by Steinberg, Arts of Japan,
taught by Alfred Salmony, NYU.
Box 18
Course notebook,
1952,
1957
Scope and Content Note
with photographs from course Steinberg audited and took as a registered
graduate student, Aegean Art, 1952 and 1957, taught by Karl Lehmann, NYU.
Box 19
Course notebook,
1955
Scope and Content Note
with photographs and inserted notes from course taken by Steinberg as a
registered graduate student, Romanesque to Gothic, taught by Harry Bober,
NYU.
Box 20
Course notebook and papers,
1955,
1960
Scope and Content Note
with photographs and inserted notes from course taken by Steinberg as a
registered graduate student, 17th Century Architecture in France and England,
1955, taught by Richard Krautheimer, NYU; includes paper, Le Vau and Italian
Architecture, May 16, 1960, the final assignment for Ph.D. qualification
submitted by Steinberg following his dissertation defense.
Box 21
Course notebook, 1958
Scope and Content Note
with lecture and seminar notes taken by Steinberg when he was a
graduate student, Early Renaissance Sculpture, 1957, taught by H.W. Janson;
Funerary Sculpture, 1958, taught by Erwin Panofsky; Iconography of
Architecture, 1958 taught by Richard Krautheimer and Bates Lowry, NYU.
Box 22
Course notebook,
Summer 1956
Scope and Content Note
with inserted notes from course taken by Steinberg when he was a
graduate student, Italian High and Late Renaissance Architecture,
taught by Wolfgang Lotz, NYU.
Box 23
Course notebook,
1957
Scope and Content Note
with photographs and inserted notes from course taken by Steinberg when he
was a graduate student, African and Oceanic Art, 1957, taught by Robert
Goldwater, NYU.
Box 24
Course notebook and paper,
1950,
1957,
1958
Scope and Content Note
with lecture notes and photographs taken by Steinberg when he was an auditor
and a registered graduate student, Byzantine Art in the Age of Justinian,
1958, taught by Ernst Kitzinger; Byzantine Architecture, 1957, taught by
Richard Krautheimer; Byzantine Art, 1950, taught by Harry Bober, NYU; includes
Steinberg paper, S. Marco of Venice as a Mid-Byzantine Church, 1958.
Box 25
Course notebook,
1958
Scope and Content Note
with photographs and inserted notes from course taken by Steinberg when he
was a graduate student, Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, taught
by Richard Krautheimer, NYU.
Box 26
Course notebook,
1959
Scope and Content Note
with photographs and inserted notes from course taken by Steinberg when he
was a graduate student, Late Antique Art, taught by Karl Lehmann,
NYU.
Box 27
Course notebook and paper,
1957
Scope and Content Note
with photographs and inserted notes from course taken by Steinberg when he
was a graduate student, Roman Architecture, 1957, taught by J.B. Ward Perkins,
NYU; includes reading notes, final exam paper and one lecture, History of Rome
from Early Christian Times, taught by Richard Krautheimer.
Box 28
Course notebook,
1963
Scope and Content Note
from course audited by Steinberg as a post-graduate student, Titian taught by Erwin Panofsky, NYU.
