Winner. Scientist of the Year 2019. The Humanities

Carmen C. Bambach

Academic title, degree: Ph.D.
Fields of science: History of Art
Research interest: Italian Renaissance art
Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Position: Curator of Drawings and Prints
Country: USA

Carmen C. Bambach (Yale University, BA, MA, MPhil, Phd) is Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers (Apr. 26, 2013). She is a leading, internationally recognized specialist of Italian Renaissance art. She was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in 2010-12 at CASVA (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C; and has held numerous fellowships and grants, including a Guggenheim (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation); twice, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence; "Rome Prize" (Post-Doctoral Fellowship), American Academy in Rome; Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center.

Carmen C. Bambach is author of more than 70 scholarly articles, as well as the books entitled Drawing and Painting in the Italian Renaissance Workshop: Theory and Practice, 1300-1600 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), awarded the "Premio Salimbeni 2000 per la Storia e Critica d’Arte" (Italy’s highest award for art books), and Una eredità difficile: i disegni ed i manoscritti di Leonardo tra mito e documento (Florence: Giunti Publishing Group, 2009). Her 4 volume book, Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered, is in press, Yale University Press, London and New Haven, 2019.

Carmen C. Bambach has organized and co-organized exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, authoring also the accompanying catalogues, including The Drawings of Bronzino (2010); Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman (2003); Correggio and Parmigianino: Master Draughtsmen of the Renaissance (2000); The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle (1997); An Italian Journey: Italian Drawings from Correggio to Tiepolo from the Tobey Collection (2010); From Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna (2009); Genoa: Drawings and Prints, 1530-1800 (1996). She was assistant professor at Fordham University (1989-1995), and since has taught graduate seminars at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Columbia University.

Dr. Bambach organized and curated the exhibition Michelangelo Divine Draftsman and Designer (November 13, 2017–February 12, 2018), authoring the accompanying book as well.

The exhibition was a watershed in the vast field of Michelangelo studies taking into consideration her painstaking, visually acute scholarship. Likewise, the da Vinci volumes will become a fundamental element of future research on the artist.

The four-volume Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered was published in 2019.