Matthew Knox Averett, PhD

Professor

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Contact

College of Arts and Sciences
Fine & Performing Arts
Art History
LECA - Lied Education Center for the Arts - 116

Matthew Knox Averett, PhD

Professor

Research Focus

Race and the Built Environment
Urban and Architectural History of St. Louis
Urban and Architectural History of Rome
Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture
Gian Lorenzo Bernini

 

Department

Fine & Performing Arts

Position

Professor

Books

  • Averett Matthew, Canfield Drive 2025
  • Interpreting Urban Spaces in Italian Cultures
    Averett Matthew Knox, 'Noble Edifices': The Urban Image of Papal Rome, 1417-1667 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Averett Matthew Knox, etal Interpreting Urban Spaces in Italian Cultures 2022
  • Interpreting Urban Spaces in Italian Cultures
    Averett Matthew Knox, “Noble Edifices” : The Urban Image of Papal Rome, 1417–1667 [Book Chapter] 2022
  • The Early Modern Child in Art and History
    Averett Matthew K., Uncle Urban raises the Barberini Nephews: The education and expectations of Papal Nipote [Book Chapter] 2015

Publications

  • Averett Matthew Knox, Andrea Pozzo and the Religious Theatre of the Seventeenth Century 2022
  • Averett Matthew Knox, Music as Cultural Mission: Explorations of Jesuit Practices in Italy and North America 2017
  • Averett Matthew Knox, Jerome Nadal: Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels: Cumulative Index 2017
  • Religions
    Averett Matthew K., Pressing Metal, Pressing Politics: Papal Annual Medals, 1605-1700
    7:5, p. 60 2016
  • Averett Matthew K., The early modern child in art and history 2015
  • Sixteenth Century Journal
    Averett Matthew Knox, 'Redditus orbis erat'
    45:1, p. 3 - 24 2014
  • Averett Matthew K., Bernini: Art as Theatre 2013
  • American journal of numismatics (1989)
    Averett Matthew Knox, The Annual Medals of Pope Urban VIII Barberini
    25, p. 303 - 331 2013
  • Averett Matthew K., Bernini's Beloved: A Portrait of Costanza Piccolomini 2013
  • Averett Matthew K., Bernini: His Life and His Rome/The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini by Domenico Bernini: A Translation and Critical Edition, with Introduction and Commentary 2012
  • Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte
    Averett Matthew Knox, Becoming Giorgio Cornaro
    74:4, p. 559 - 568 2011
  • Averett Matthew K., Guercino's Paintings and His Patron's Politics in Early Modern Italy 2011
  • Averett Matthew K., The Religious Patronage of the Duke of Lerma, 1598-1621 by Lisa A. Banner 2010

Grants

  • Canfield Drive: A History of the American City on a Street in St. Louis/Sponsor: Dr. George F. Haddix President's Faculty Research Grant