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Hellmut Hager
Professor Emeritus &
Evan Pugh Professor of Art History

Education
Fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies
Dr. Phil. in art history (Universität Bonn, Germany)

Dr. Hager taught Italian and German Baroque and Rococo architecture at Penn State from 1971 to 2001. He was head of the Department of Art History from 1972 to 1996. His research interests began with the origins of the Italian medieval altarpiece with his published dissertation, Die Anfänge des italienischen Altarbildes (Munich). While serving as assistant to the director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, his research interests expanded to include the Italian architects Carlo Fontana, Filippo Juvarra, and the school of Bernini. His major publications include Loyola: Historia y Arquitectura, with co-authors J.R. Eguillor, S.J., and R.M. de Hornedo, S.J. (San Sebastian); Carlo Fontana: The Drawings at Windsor Castle, with Allan Braham (London); Filippo Juvarra e il concorso di modelli del 1715 bandito da Clemente XI per la nuova sacrestia di S. Pietro (Rome); and Carlo Fontana, Utilissimo Trattato dell'Acque Correnti (Roma, 1696), edited and with a critical introduction by Hager (Rome). Recently he edited the manuscript in the Museo di Roma by Carlo Fontana for his book on the Colosseum in Rome (1725), again with a critical introduction. In addition, he has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, symposia, and museum catalogues. He is currently working (with London scholar Allan Braham) on a monograph on Carlo Fontana. Professor Hager is an Evan Pugh Professor, the highest distinction that Penn State bestows upon a faculty member.

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