About — Ralph Lieberman Photography

I am an art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance art and a photographer of architecture and sculpture.

I have lived and worked for extended periods in both Venice and Florence, doing art-historical research and writing and for nearly 50 years have been photographing in America and Europe, concentrating on Italy.

Since the early 1980s I have lived in western Massachusetts, dividing my time between teaching, making photographs and writing. I have taught history of art, photography and architecture at several colleges and universities, from Williamstown to Tokyo and many places in between. I have published and lectured on Venetian Renaissance Architecture, Renaissance art in Florence and Rome, 19th- and 20th-century architecture and on the relationship between photography and art history, which is my current project

My art-historical photographs are in study collections at Harvard, the National Gallery (DC), the Frick Collection and the Getty as well as the major art-history libraries in Rome, Florence, Venice and Munich. My photographs are frequently published in books and journals and nearly 12,000 of them are on ARTStor, the art history image data base.

My photographs of a more personal nature, made for the good of my soul rather than for the good of art history and scholarship, have been exhibited in many places and are found in a number of private collections.