Dr. Douglas N. Dow
Assistant Professor, Art History
Email: ddow@ksu.edu
Ph.D. Art History Pennsylvania State University 2006
M.A. Art History Pennsylvania State University 1997
B.A. Art History and English University of Maine 1995
Benedetto Buglioni, Saint John the Baptist with Two Flagellants, ca. 1495, glazed terracotta. (Photo: Douglas N. Dow)
Dr. Dow’s research interests center on issues of collective patronage, the production and consumption of art by non-elites, and the professional and social networks of artists in late sixteenth-century Italy. He has published articles in Confraternitas and Source, and his research has been supported by grants from the Kress Foundation, the Renaissance Society of America, the Lilly Library at Indiana University, the Mark Chapman Foundation, and Kansas State University. Dr. Dow is currently working on a book, Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Corporate Groups in the Age of Reform, that examines the commissioning of apostolic decorative schemes within the sacred spaces of Florentine brotherhoods at the end of the Cinquecento.
At Kansas State, Dr. Dow teaches introductory courses in the history of art as well as upper-level courses on Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art. He has also led several summer study-abroad programs in Italy. In 2011 he was recognized by the College of Arts and Sciences with a William L. Stamey Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.