Lyle Humphrey
Title
Associate curator of European art
Institution
North Carolina Museum of Art
Current Research
Venetian painting; Venetian manuscript illumination; Venice and Ottoman empire; north Italian painting; north Italian manuscript illumination; history of collecting; Pierpont Morgan; Coptic textiles; late antique textiles; Bernini; Venetian confraternities; confraternity art
Recent Publications
“An ex-Celotti Antiphonal Cutting Inscribed ‘BF’ in the North Carolina Museum of Art,” in The Art of the Renaissance Book: Tributes to Lilian Armstrong, eds. Ilaria Andreoli and Helena Szepe, 342–367, Turnhout: Brepols, 2023
“Bolognese Art in the Rule of Cardinal Bertrand du Pouget (1327–1334),” in Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City, exhibition catalogue edited by Trinita Kennedy, 87–105, Nashville, Frist Art Museum, 20 November 2021 through February 14, 2022. London: Paul Holberton, 2022
“Saul Among the Prophets: W. R. Valentiner, Robert Lee Humber, Carl W. Hamilton, and the Italian Art Collection at the NCMA,” in Collecting Early Modern Art in the US South (1400–1800), edited by Lisandra Estevez, 23–51, London: Cambridge Scholars, 2021
“’Rare and Practically Impossible to Get’: Bacchus in America 1911–1956,” in The Bacchus Conservation Project: The Story of a Sculpture, edited by Caroline M. Rocheleau. 36–45, Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2020
Entries for “Mariegola della Scuola di Santa Maria e San Francesco ai Frari” and “Mariegola della Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista” in Le miniature della Fondazione Giorgio Cini, eds. Federica Toniolo and Massimo Medica. Venice: Fondazione Giorgio Cini, nos. 128, 132, 2016
“Bolognese Art in the Rule of Cardinal Bertrand du Pouget (1327–1334),” in Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City, exhibition catalogue edited by Trinita Kennedy, 87–105, Nashville, Frist Art Museum, 20 November 2021 through February 14, 2022. London: Paul Holberton, 2022
“Saul Among the Prophets: W. R. Valentiner, Robert Lee Humber, Carl W. Hamilton, and the Italian Art Collection at the NCMA,” in Collecting Early Modern Art in the US South (1400–1800), edited by Lisandra Estevez, 23–51, London: Cambridge Scholars, 2021
“’Rare and Practically Impossible to Get’: Bacchus in America 1911–1956,” in The Bacchus Conservation Project: The Story of a Sculpture, edited by Caroline M. Rocheleau. 36–45, Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2020
Entries for “Mariegola della Scuola di Santa Maria e San Francesco ai Frari” and “Mariegola della Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista” in Le miniature della Fondazione Giorgio Cini, eds. Federica Toniolo and Massimo Medica. Venice: Fondazione Giorgio Cini, nos. 128, 132, 2016
Forthcoming Publications
“Twenty-Five Coptic Textiles in North Carolina,” in Beyond Byzantium: Essays on the Medieval Worlds of Eastern Christianity and Their Arts. In Honor of Helen C. Evans. Berlin: De Gruyter, ca. 2025
With Gabe Goldstein, “Connecting the Everyday World and the Sacred,” in Handbook to the NCMA Collections, Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2024
With Gabe Goldstein, “Connecting the Everyday World and the Sacred,” in Handbook to the NCMA Collections, Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2024