Larry Silver (Ph.D. Harvard, 1974), 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 as well as the Historians of Netherlandish Art, and previously taught at Berkeley and Northwestern.  He has also served as Editor in Chief of "caa.reviews," the on-line reviews journal of the College Art Association and is a member of the Print Council of America.  Publications include a general survey, Art in History, and the recent Landscapes and Peasant Scenes (Univ. Pennsylvania Press, 2005) as well as a museum exhibition on professional engravers of the sixteenth century Netherlands, Graven Images (1993).  Penn hosted another exhibition, organized with graduate students, "Transformation: Jews and Modernity" (2001), and another exhibition on mural or frieze woodcuts of the sixteenth century, "Size Matters" is scheduled to originate at Wellesley's Davis Art Center (2007).  Other current research centers on Rembrandt's religion for a book-length study co-authored with Shelley Perlove.

Memberships in other Graduate Groups:

Cinema Studies

Germanic Languages & Literature

Master of Liberal Arts