Education
New York University; University of Georgia.
art historian university professor
New York University; University of Georgia.
Professor Hood taught the history of Italian Renaissance Art in Columbia University"s Department of Art History and Archaeology from 2008 through 2010. He is currently teaching art history seminars at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. His research interests center around Italian Renaissance art, as well as the art of 17th and 18th century France, Italy, and Spain.
He has published on a variety of subjects in Renaissance and Baroque art
His book-in-progress is entitled Made Men: Afterlives of the Classical Nude. Professor Hood received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts at the University of Georgia.
He did his doctoral work at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts in New York and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 1977. He has taught at Oberlin College since 1974 and holds the endowed Mildred C. Jay professorship in art history.
He is a fellow at the American Academy in Rome, as well as the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at the Villa I Tatti in Florence, where he held two visiting professorships from 1989-1990 and from 1999-2000.
He is also a 2005 recipient of an Andrew West. Mellon fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.