David Rosand (born 1938) is an American art historian, university professor and writer.[1]
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Rosand was born in Brooklyn; and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1959.[2]
In 1961, he married Vassar graduate Ellen Fineman.[3]
Columbia awarded Rosand his PhD in 1965.[1] His dissertation was supported in part by a Fullbright scholarship for study in Italy.[2]
Since 1964, Rosand has taught at Columbia, where he was Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History.[1] He plans to take emeritus status in June 2010.[2]
Rosand's area of academic expertise is Italian Renaissance art.[1] He is known for his scholarly work on Venice and Venetian]] artists like Titian. Rosand was honored at a one-day symposium at Columbia University in October 2008. The event brought together Professor Rosand’s colleagues and former graduate students to present research and personal reflections on the occasion of his seventieth birthday and retirement. The symposium was organized around papers on a wide variety of topics related to Professor Rosand’s past and current research.[5]
Complementing his career as an academic, he serves on the Art Advisory Council of the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR).[6]
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about David Rosand, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 80+ works in 170+ publications in 8 languages and 9,000+ library holdings.[7]