Patricia Mainardi
Professor of 18th and 19th Century European Art

PhD, CUNY, 1984

Executive Officer

pmainardi@gc.cuny.edu

Professor Mainardi has also taught at Harvard University, Princeton University and Williams College. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, and the Institute for Advanced Study. She has published widely in nineteenth-century European art history; her current interests include an ongoing concern with the inter-relationship of art, art institutions and the state, as well as the persistence of classicism, the issue of replication, and the work of Corot. 

Publications:

Husbands, Wives, and Lovers: Marriage and Its Discontents in Nineteenth Century France. Yale University Press, 2003

The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third Republic. Cambridge University Press, 1993; pb 1994. 

Art and Politics of the Second Empire: The Universal Expositions of 1855 and 1867. Yale University Press, 1987; pb 1989. CAA Charles Rufus Morey Award, 1987.

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