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Working languages:
French to English
English (monolingual)

Pippin Michelli
Art & architectural history, methodology

Wisconsin
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Native in: English Native in English

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Western Art and Architectural History, all periods, media and methodologies




Art Historian with Ph.D.

All periods, media and methodologies for western art and architectural history. Over ten years of College/University and High School level teaching; research, publication and public speaking.


Featured Art Translation, Editing:

Translated from French and fact-checked Glossary of Art Conservation II, Mireia Xarrie (ed), Barcelona: Balaam, Isbn 84-89321-02-7, Pb, 192 pages, January 2006

Comment
A highly specialized scientific text that included some terminology and concepts that needed modernizing. Sample translation (2nd item)


Translated from French and/or fact-checked several chapters of l'Art de Paris, by Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, Paris (Mengès), 2000, chapters 6-11, for publication in English through Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Cologne, 2001 (deferred; now published by Vendôme).
Comment
In addition to advanced specialist terminology, this complex and subtle text was full of intertextual humour, puns, inuendos and clues to wider cultural and historic issues. Sample translation (1st item)
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General Art Editing:

Edited and fact-checked:

Antwerp - America, Eugeen Van Mieghem and the Emigrants of the Red Star Line, New York (South Street Seaport Museum), 2006

Les Séebergers Photographes de l’élegance, 1909-1939, Sylvie Aubenas, Xavier Demange, Virginie Chardin, Paris (Seuil/Bibliothèque Nationale de la France), 2006

Bruegel Imagined/Bruegel in prints/Bruegel and his Age/Bruegel Inspires (4-exhibition catalogue for festival, Bruegel 06, Brussels, 12 May - 3 September, 2006).

Arts Le Havre 2006 (Catalogue for Biennale d'Art Contemporain du 1er au 25 Juin 2006), Belgium (Exhibitions International), 2006

De Kracht van Ikonen, Jan Morsink Iconen (ed), Belgium (Snoeck Publishers), 2006

Architektur der frühen Neuzeit, Barbara Borngässer, Berlin (Feierabend, Rolf Toman, ed), 2005; published in English 2005 See on Amazon

Architektur des Mittelalters, Ulrike Laule, Berlin (Feierabend, Rolf Toman, ed), 2004; published in English 2004

Skulpturen, Uwe Geese, Berlin (Feierabend, Rolf Toman, ed), 2004; published in English 2004 See on Amazon

Romanik (shortened), Ulrike Laule, Uwe Geese, Berlin (Feierabend, Rolf Toman, ed), 2002; published in English 2004

Gotisch (shortened), Ulrike Laule, Uwe Geese, Berlin (Feierabend, Rolf Toman, ed), 2002; published in English 2004

Romanik by Ulrike Laule and Uwe Geese (general editor Rolf Toman), Berlin (Feierabend, 2002), published 2003
Comment
This very condensed old-school text on Romanesque painting, sculpture and architecture needed careful treatment. See on Amazon

Barock und Rokoko by Barbara Borngässer (general editor Rolf Toman), Berlin (Feierabend, 2002), published 2003
Comment
A very condensed text on Baroque and Rococo painting, sculpture and architecture. See on Amazon

Keywords: art, , painting, sculpture, , architecture, , stained glass, , art history, , culture, , visual culture, , communications, marketing, , advertising, , creative, , education, , teaching, , literature, , philosophy

Profile last updated
Jan 5, 2007



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