Carmen C. Bambach

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| known_for = Italian and Spanish drawings; especially Leonardo da Vinci

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Carmen C. Bambach (1959) is an American art historian and curator of Italian and Spanish drawings at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art who specializes in Italian Renaissance art. She is considered one of the world's leading specialists on Leonardo da Vinci, especially his drawings.{{sfn|Povoledo|2008}}

Career

Bambach received her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from Yale University.{{Cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/curatorial-departments/drawings-and-prints/staff |title=Meet the Staff | the Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=December 6, 2019 |archive-date=November 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114075439/https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/curatorial-departments/drawings-and-prints/staff |url-status=dead }}

Commenting on the 2017 exhibition of over 130 Michelangelo drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer", Bambach, who curated the showing, attributed a black chalk sketch to the artist against the then current consensus among her colleagues.{{Cite news |last1=McDermon |first1=Daniel |title=How a Curator Attributed This Drawing to Michelangelo |work=The New York Times |date=2017-11-05 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/arts/design/michelangelo-new-drawing.html |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |df=mdy-all }}

She published the four-volume Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered in 2019 to mixed reviews. The same year, she was the first recipient of the Vilcek Prize for Excellence, recognizing work that reflects immigration's impact on American society.{{Cite web |last1=Cascone |first1=Sarah |title=The Curator of the Met's Celebrated Michelangelo Show Just Won the First $100,000 Vilcek Prize to Support Immigrant Achievement |work=Artnet News |date=2019-02-04 |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vilcek-prize-for-excellence-carmen-bambach-1454599 |language=en-US |access-date=2019-12-06 |df=mdy-all }}

In 2020, an honoree of the Great Immigrants Award named by Carnegie Corporation of New York.{{Cite web |title=Carmen Bambach {{!}} I Tatti {{!}} The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies |url=https://itatti.harvard.edu/people/carmen-bambach |access-date=2024-06-26 |website=itatti.harvard.edu}}

Selected works

{{cite book |editor-last=Bambach |editor-first=Carmen C. |year=2003 |title=Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |location=New York City, New York |isbn=978-0-300-09878-5 |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=QwQxDJMKRE4C}} |ref=no }}
{{cite book |last=Bambach |first=Carmen C. |year=2019 |title=Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered |volume=1, The Making of an Artist: 1452–1500 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=978-0-300-19195-0 |author-mask=2 }}
{{cite book |last=Bambach |first=Carmen C. |year=2019 |title=Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered |volume=2 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |ref=no |author-mask=2}}
{{cite book |last=Bambach |first=Carmen C. |year=2019 |title=Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered |volume=3 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |ref=no |author-mask=2}}
{{cite book |last=Bambach |first=Carmen C. |year=2019 |title=Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered |volume=4 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |ref=no |author-mask=2 }}

References

Sources

{{cite news |last=Christensen |first=Lauren |date=27 July 2019 |title=A da Vinci for Any Budget |work=The New York Times |access-date=17 August 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/books/leonardo-by-leonardo-martin-kemp-leonardo-100-milestones-leonardo-da-vinci-rediscovered.html |url-access=limited }}
{{cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |author-link=Holland Cotter |date=11 July 2019 |title=What Leonardo da Vinci Couldn't Finish |work=The New York Times |access-date=17 August 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/arts/design/davinci-saint-jerome-metropolitan-museum.html |url-access=limited }}
{{cite news |last=Povoledo |first=Elisabetta |date=22 August 2008 |title=A Portrait by Leonardo? Scholars and Skeptics Differ |work=The New York Times |access-date=16 August 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/arts/design/23leon.html |url-access=limited }}
{{cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=20 January 2003 |title=Renaissance Genius as Compulsive Draftsman; An Exhibition Explores Leonardo's Creative Process With a Wealth of Examples |work=The New York Times |access-date=16 August 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/20/arts/renaissance-genius-compulsive-draftsman-exhibition-explores-leonardo-s-creative.html |url-access=limited }}

External links

[https://metmuseum.academia.edu/carmenbambach Published works] at Academia.edu
[https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/search-publication-results?searchType=C&Tag=&title=&author=Bambach,%20Carmen&pt=0&tc=0&dept=0&fmt=0 List of publications] at the Met
[https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300191950/leonardo-da-vinci-rediscovered Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered]

Category:Living people

Category:1959 births

Category:American art curators

Category:American women curators

Category:American art historians

Category:Leonardo da Vinci scholars

Category:People associated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Category:American women art historians