Wallace is an internationally recognized authority on Michelangelo and his contemporaries. In addition to more than forty articles (as well as two works of fiction), he is the author and editor of four books on Michelangelo: Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Genius as Entrepreneur (Cambridge 1994); Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English (Garland, 1996), Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture (Hugh Lauter Levin, 1998), and most recently, Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English (Garland 1999). He is currently writing a new biography of Michelangelo.
William Wallace
Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
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- Email: wwallace@wustl.edu
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A God Takes a Break From Mischief
William E. Wallace, Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
A God Takes a Break From Mischief
“Reclining Pan” (c.1535) is “the most important Renaissance sculpture in America.” So argues William E. Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History, in a new appreciation for the Wall Street Journal.
Creatures Great and Small
William Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
Creatures Great and Small
William E. Wallace, director of undergraduate studies in Art History and Archaeology, says the Frick Collection’s move to Madison Avenue gives viewers the chance to see Giovanni Bellini’s ‘St. Francis in the Desert’ in a new light—literally
Gianluigi Colalucci, who gave fresh color to Michelangelo’s frescoes, dies at 91
William Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
A Burial Beneath Beauty
William E. Wallace, professor of art history in Arts & Sciences, discusses a statue of Moses that dominates the scene in Michelangelo’s Tomb of Pope Julius II.
Was Michelangelo a Renaissance Banksy?
William Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
4 ideas for satisfying your imaginative appetite, online and on the page
William Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
A Structural Resurrection
William Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
A Structural Resurrection
So, are you thinking of retiring? Just because you are in your 70s? Michelangelo was just entering the busiest and most creative years of his life. And look what he accomplished 52 years after completing the Sistine Chapel, writes William Wallace.
Michelangelo’s greatest work may not be what you think
William Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
Michelangelo found a new career after 70 — why can’t you?
William Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
This Room Is Thought To Have Been Michelangelo’s Secret Hideaway And Drawing Board
William Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
One man’s quest to prove he owns an authentic Michelangelo painting
William Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
Maybe Michelangelo: Is living room painting a masterpiece?
William Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
Secret Room Holds ‘Lost’ Michelangelo Artwork
William Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
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A Structural Resurrection
So, are you thinking of retiring? Just because you are in your 70s? Michelangelo was just entering the busiest and most creative years of his life. And look what he accomplished 52 years after completing the Sistine Chapel.
New book explores Michelangelo’s last great challenge, building St. Peter’s Basilica
Just when Michelangelo was considering retirement, he was asked to help oversee construction of St. Peter’s Basilica and helped create one of the world’s great architectural masterpieces.
Roediger, Wallace receive Arts & Sciences faculty awards
Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger III, PhD, received the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Leadership Award and William E. Wallace, PhD, received the David Hadas Teaching Award during Arts & Sciences’ annual faculty reception. Gary S. Wihl, PhD, dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences and the Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, presented the awards and introduced new faculty at the reception, which also recognized the start of the new academic year.
Campus Author: William Wallace, Ph.D. ‘Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and his Times’
While the story of Michelangelo’s artistic genius has been told many times, the story of his social ambitions has been told scarcely at all. Indeed, scholars have largely dismissed the artist’s claims to noble birth. Yet it was precisely that belief that propelled Michelangelo’s lifelong quest not only to improve his family’s financial position, but to improve the very social standing of artists. So argues art historian William Wallace in the new biography “Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and his Times.”