Carole Paul
The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour,  Ashgate 2008

Carole Paul has been a lecturer in Art History at UCSB since 1994.  She recently published a beautiful and meticulously researched book detailing the late-eighteenth-century redecoration of the exhibition spaces at the Borghese palace and villa in Rome and the reinstallation of the family's vast art collection. This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of Italian art at a complex moment of transition from baroque to neoclassical style, as well as to the emerging field of museum history, demonstrating that these spaces were among the most influential models of the modern art museum. Carole’s book is available through Ashgate's website (www.ashgate.com).  She continues her examination of the origins of modern public museums in her current project, an anthology that she is editing on The First Modern Museums of Art: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Formation of an Institution.