Philip Sohm
Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Chair, Department of Art History, at the University of Toronto.
Contributor Biography
Dr. Sohm is a leading international scholar of Renaissance and Baroque art history. His books are recognized as breaking new ground in many different areas: social history and architectural design, the language of art writing, non-verbal communication in painting, the biological and psychological conditions of artistic creativity and production, and the economic preconditions of making and marketing paintings. His work has also engaged the interest of philosophers, literary historians, economists and even one plastic surgeon.
He is the Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Chair in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. He was the primary supervisor for 14 Ph.D dissertations at the University of Toronto, and a second reader for Ph.D dissertations at both Harvard and Princeton.
His fifth book (of which he is the co-author and co-editor), Painting for Profit: The Economic Lives of Seventeenth-century Italian Painters, will be published by Yale University Press in 2010.
