About the Author
Walter Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, where he directs the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry (Emory’s institute for advanced study in the humanities).
He is author of three monographs and over eighty articles, co-author of two exhibition catalogues, and editor or co-editor of more than twenty volumes. He is editor of two book series: Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History and Lund Humphries’ Northern Lights. He was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010, Member of the Print Council of America in 2013, and was Chaire Francqui at the Université Catholique de Louvain in 2014–2015. Melion was awarded the 2016 Distinguished Scholar Award of the American Catholic Historical Association, and the 2019 Baker Award of the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and has been Scholar in Residence at The Newberry Library since 2017. He is president emeritus of the Sixteenth Century Society and current president of the Historians of Netherlandish Art.
His current projects include a digital, open-access edition of the exhibition catalogue Through a Glass, Darkly: Allegory and Faith in Netherlandish Prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt (forthcoming presently) and a monograph on 16th- and 17th-century Netherlandish manuscript prayerbooks organized around printed images.