David P. Bardeen
David E. Finley predoctoral fellow at CASVA
dbardeen@ucla.edu

David P. Bardeen is the David E. Finley predoctoral fellow at CASVA and a Ph.D. student specializing in early modern European art under the supervision of Dr. Bronwen Wilson. He received an MA in art history and archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. His dissertation, nearing completion, examines the ecological embeddedness of Italian intarsia, a form of illusionistic wood inlay that furnished choir precincts, sacristies and private rooms in central and northern Italian during the fifteenth- and sixteenth-centuries, and reconsiders the relationship between intarsia and painting.
In addition to CASVA, his research has been supported by the Renaissance Society of America, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and a Lynn and Maude White Fellowship from the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA.
His publications include two forthcoming articles: “Grains, Worms and Stains: Designing from Wood in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1525,” scheduled for the December 2024 issue of The Art Bulletin; and an essay examining the material poetics of wood in the paintings of Cima da Conegliano in the Church of San Giovanni in Bragora, for the edited volume San Giovanni in Bragora: Chiesa, Campo, Comunità (expected 2025). He also contributed eight catalogue essays to the exhibition, The Renaissance Nude, organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum (2018).