Gauvin Alexander Bailey is an American-Canadian

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and

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. He is Professor and Alfred and Isabel Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen's University. Bailey is a correspondent étranger at the

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and a Fellow of the

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. He held the 2017 Panofsky Professorship at the

Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte The Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI; 'Central Institute for Art History'), is an independent art-historical research institute in Munich, Germany. The institute is located in the former administration building of the National Socialist p ...

in Munich.

Early life and education

Bailey was born in Vancouver, B.C., on 8 July 1966. He attended the Schillergymnasium Münster among other schools, and graduated from

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at the

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with a B.A. in 1989 and M.A. in 1990, and from

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with a Ph.D. in 1996.

Career

Bailey has taught Renaissance, Baroque, Latin American, and Asian art at King’s College at the

University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen (abbreviated ''Aberd.'' in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom), post-nominals; ) is a public university, public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bis ...

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and

Clark University Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1887 with a large endowment from its namesake Jonas Gilman Clark, a prominent businessman, Clark was one of the first modern research uni ...

, 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 the

in Munich (as the 2017 Panofsky Professor),

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and

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...

Bailey at Australian National University

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'' (

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, 2017) and ''Architecture & Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire: State, Church and Identity, 1604–1830'' (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018). A tenth book entitled ''The Architecture of Empire: France in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, 1664–1962'' will 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 of

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, especially

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and the cult of

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. Bailey maintains an active international lecture schedule and has made over 100 presentations at academic institutions and museums on six continents, including

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, the

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, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the

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, the

Getty Research Institute The Getty Research Institute (GRI), located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, is "dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts".

, the

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, the

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(London), the

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, the

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, Rome,

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and the

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, 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 to ''The Burlington Magazine'' and ''The Art Newspaper''.

Major Awards

*2018

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Research Fellowshi

*2018

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Insight Grant. *2014

Research Fellowship
NEH grant products: Art and Architecture in the French Atlantic World, 1608–1828
*2014

Insight Development Gran
Diverse projects earn funding
*2010

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. *2010

American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publicat ...

Franklin Research Gran
Franklin Research Grants
*2010

Arts and Humanities Research Council The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), formerly Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), is a British research council, established in 1998, supporting research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities. History The Arts a ...

Fellowship

*2010

Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland is a charitable trust established by Andrew Carnegie in 1901 for the benefit of the universities of Scotland, their students and their staff. The incorporation of the Trust was by royal ch ...

Grant
Latin travels unearth ‘architectural treasures’ for Aberdeen academic , News , The University of Aberdeen
*2009

British Academy The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...

Research Gran
Small Research Grants: 2008–09 Round
*2007

Renaissance Society of America The Renaissance Society of America (RSA) is a nonprofit academic membership association founded in 1954 to promote study of the world during the Renaissance period, 1300–1700. It is a member of the American Council of Learned Societies. The R ...

Robert Lehman Foundation Research Gran
RSA Fellowship Winners – Renaissance Society of America
*2006

Franklin Research Gran
Franklin Research Grants
*2005

Research Fellowshi
NEH grants
*2003

Robert Lehman Foundation Research Gran
RSA Fellowship Winners – Renaissance Society of America
*2000

Villa I Tatti Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies is a center for advanced research in the humanities located in Florence, Italy, and belongs to Harvard University. It houses a collection of Italian primitives, and of Chinese and ...

Hanna Kiel Fellowship *2000

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Rome Prize *2000

Robert Lehman Foundation Research Gran
RSA 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 Press
Reviewed in Transactions of the

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br>Review: Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire: State, Church, and Society, 1604–1830, by Gauvin Alexander Bailey
''Canadian Architect'', Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
Book Review: Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire
Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society
Transactions – Ancient Monuments Society
and the Journal of Modern History]
Architecture 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

Reviewed in

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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, 201
The Spiritual Rococo: Decor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia
*''Baroque & Rococo''. London: Phaidon Press, 201
Baroque & Rococo , Art , Phaidon Store
Reviewed in The Spectator
A 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 Press
Spanish edition ''El barroco andino híbrido: culturas convergentes en las iglesias del Sur Andino'' published 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

Reviewed in The Times and The 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, 200

*''Art on the Jesuit missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542–1773'', University of Toronto Press, 200

Winner 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, 199

References

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