Office: ARTS 113E, 973/ 408-3796, mkuntz@drew.edu

Margaret Kuntz, Assistant Professor of Art History, is a specialist in Italian Renaissance and Baroque painting, sculpture and architecture. At Drew she teaches a variety of courses, including Renaissance Art and Architecture, European Baroque Art and Architecture, as well as a First-Year Seminar on Art and Controversy and a Research Seminar on Memorials and Monuments, which explores and the processes of memorialization and the structuring of memory. Her scholarly research concerns the decoration and ceremonial functions of the Vatican Palace and St. Peter’s Basilica and the late work of Michelangelo. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize of the Americana Academy in Rome and a past Kress Fellow of the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut), Rome. Her M.A. in art history is from Rutgers University, and her Ph.D. is from The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Recent publications include:
"Designed for Ceremony: Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's Cappella Paolina in the Vatican Palace," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 2003, vol. 62, pp.228-255
“Maderno’s Building Procedures for New St. Peter’s: Why the Façade First?,” Zeitshcrift für Kunstgeschichte, January 2005, vol. 68, pp.41-60
“A Ceremonial Ensemble: Michelangelo’s Last Judgment and the Cappella Paolina Frescoes” in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, ed. Marcia Hall, Cambridge University Press, Masterpieces of Art Series, 2005, pp.150-182
“Mimesis, Ceremony, Praxis: Gregory XIII and the Cappella Paolina,” Acts of the International Conference “Unità e Frammenti di Mordernità. Arte e Scienza nella Roma di Gregorio XIII Boncompagni (1572-1585), co-sponsored by the Università di Roma, “La Sapienza” and the American Academy in Rome, Rome, (June 17-19), (in press)