Larry Silver, Ph.D, Farquhar Professor of Art History, is a specialist in painting
and graphics of Northern Europe, particularly Germany and the Netherlands, during
the era of Renaissance and Reformation. He has served as 
president of the College Art Association, the Historians of Netherlandish Art, and
previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Northwestern University.
He has also served as editor-in-chief of "caa.reviews," the online reviews journal
of the College Art Association and is a member of the Print Council of America.
Silver's publications include a general survey, "Art in History" (1993) and "Peasant Scenes and Landscapes" (Univ. Pennsylvania Press, 2006), a museum exhibition on professional engravers of the16th century Netherlands, "Graven Images" (1993). Penn's Ross Gallery hosted exhibition, organized with graduate students, "Transformation: Jews and Modernity" (2001), and an exhibition on mural or frieze prints of the16th Century, "Grand Scale", originated at Wellesley's Davis Art Center (2008) and concluded at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2009). His most recent book is "Marketing Maximilian" (Princeton, 2008), on the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (d. 1519).
I was always puzzled by the look of UD until one afternoon several years ago. While hiking through the woods above the seminary with my family, I happened upon something extraordinary: jutting out of the ground was the corner of a rock painted with exquisite patterns.
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+ Read MoreUD is pleased to announce that Julia Carrano, J.D., BA '02, will return to her alma mater on July 15 as the university's new dean of students. In this role, she will lead the Office of Student Affairs in its mission "to cultivate an authentic Catholic community that holistically develops students for leadership and service to the world."
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