Wayne Franits

DEPARTMENTS

Art and Music Histories

AFFILIATIONS

Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Distinguished Professor and Chair

CONTACT

308 B Bowne Hall

Email: wefranit@syr.edu

Office: 315.443.5038

Entries in the areas listed below (other than biography and books) are selections delimited to the last five years. Consult the faculty member’s biography, listed website(s) or CV for additional information.

Books

Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune

Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune, by Wayne Franits, Lund Humphries (May 26, 2023), 168pp., ISBN-13: 978-1848225466
Godefridus Schalcken; A Dutch Painter in Late Seventeenth-Century London

Godefridus Schalcken; A Dutch Painter in Late Seventeenth-Century London, by Wayne Franits, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2018, 288 pp., 86 color illus.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century

The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth-Century, by Wayne Franits, New York/ London: Routledge, 2016, xx + 478 pp., 91 black-and-white illus.
Vermeer

Vermeer, by Wayne Franits, London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2015, 352 pp., 124 color illus.
The Paintings of Dirck van Baburen (ca. 1592/93–1624): Catalogue Raisonné

The Paintings of Dirck van Baburen ca. 1592/93-1624: Catalogue Raisonné, by Wayne Franits, Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013, xx, 388 pp., 114 black-and-white illus., 15 color illus.
The Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588–1629): Catalogue raisonné

The Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen 1588-1629: Catalogue Raisonné, by Wayne Franits, [Co-author with Leonard J. Slatkes], Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007, xix + 468 pp., 204 black-and-white illus., 17 color illus.
Pieter de Hooch: A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy

Pieter de Hooch: A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy (Getty Museum Studies of Art), by Wayne Franits, Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006, 86 pp., 24 black-and-white illus., 34 color illus.
Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution

Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution, by Wayne Franits, London/ New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004, viii + 328 pp., 166 black-and-white illus., 70 color illus.
The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer

The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer, by Wayne E. Franits (Editor) Cambridge/ New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xxiv + 241 pp., 103 black-and-white illus., fold-out map. An edited collection of 10 reprinted and new essays concerning the art and life of Johannes Vermeer (1632-75); published in hardback and paperback simultaneously.
Looking at Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art: Realism Reconsidered

Looking at Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting; Realism Reconsidered, by Wayne Franits (editor), Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997, xviii + 274 pp., 122 black-and-white illus. An edited collection of 14 reprinted and new essays addressing problems of realism, meaning and interpretation in seventeenth-centuryDutch painting.
Paragons of Virtue: Women and Domesticity in 17th Century Dutch Art

Paragons of Virtue; Women and Domesticity in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, by Wayne Franits, Cambridge/ New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993, xx + 271 pp., 172 black-and-white illus.

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