Virginia
Anne Bonito, Ph.D.
Virginia Anne
Bonito has a doctorate in Art History from the Institute of Fine
Arts, New York University, with specializations in Italian Renaissance
Art, Conservation Principles and Practices, Survey approaches to the
History of Art, Art Theory and Post War American Realism. Dr. Bonito
spent two decades in academe as a researcher in her field and as a
full time University Art History faculty member teaching both graduate
and undergraduate levels principally at Queens College of the City
University of New York and Yale University.
In the late 1980s, Dr. Bonito entered the private sector as a free
lance scholar. As such, she has worked as an advisor to collectors
and held a long term curatorial and advisory position with the Seavest
Collection of Contemporary American Realism. Among her noteworthy
projects to date, she has co-directed restorations of Roman mural
paintings in the House of Menander, Pompeii, and was sole director
of the restoration of the Renaissance monument, the Saint Anne altar
(S. Agostino, Rome, dedicated 1512), whose famed ensemble of sculpture
and painting was executed by Andrea Sansovino and Raphael. She has
written articles and books on various subjects in the field of Art
History from Antiquity to the present. Of note, are her articles and
published dissertation on the St. Anne Altar, the catalogue Get Real:
Contemporary American Realism from the Seavest Collection (Duke University
Museum of Art, 1998), and her monograph on the Contemporary American
Realist Don Eddy. (Don Eddy: The Resonance of Realism in the Art of
Post War America was the first art history monograph to be published
on the internet, February 2000, www.artregisterpress.com).
Most recently, Dr. Bonito has founded and heads The The Mnemosyne Foundation,
an organization established to foster interest in the Humanities,
especially as such interest inspires creativity and a drive towards
culture, and with the aim of edification of the public at large. The
Foundation has an internet presence and visitors to the site www.mnemosynefoundation.com
are welcome.
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