Dr. Robert V. Prestiano Professor of Art, Angelo State University 2601 West Avenue N Box 10906 ASU Station San Angelo, Tx 76909 Office Carr 235 (325) 942-2223 Fax (325) 942-2152 E-Mail: Robert.Prestiano@angelo.edu

Professor of Art and Coordinator of Art at Angelo State University.

Education

Doctorate Degree in Art History - Northwestern University; Evanston, Illinois, 1973; Bachelor's Degree in English - Loyola University; Chicago, Illinois, 1965, including a year of study at Loyola University of Chicago's, Rome Center for the Liberal Arts; Rome, Italy, 1964-1965. Also, extensive travel and study throughout United States, Europe and the Middle East.

Previous teaching Positions:

Western Illinois University; Macomb, Illinois; Beloit College; Beloit, Wisconsin.

Areas of specialization:

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Architecture, Nineteenth Century Architectural Journalism, American Art, Italian Renaissance Art, Memorial Sculpture, and Liturgical Art, (invited by the Vatican Museum; Rome, Italy to observe from the scaffolding the restoration of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling fresco. The observation/study took place in June 1989). Also, has served as coordinator, director, and often lecturer/guide for numerous art history study-tours offered for students attending Angelo State University and, in other instances, for interested members of the regional community. These tours frequently include lectures and/or guided tours given by the director in major museums, art galleries, historical sites, and archaeological excavations. Such study-tours have included visits to Washington DC, Mexico, Italy, Greece, France, Spain, Austria, England, Scotland, and Turkey.

Publications:
The Inland Architect: Chicago's Major Architectural Journal l883- l908, a book written on request of UMI Research Press; Ann Arbor, Michigan and published in 1985 as part of UMI’s series, Architecture and Urban Design. Numerous scholarly and popular articles on the visual arts, exemplary are: “Oscar Ruffini San Angelo’s Pioneering Architect: the Early Years,” Fort Conch Report, Summer 1984 and “Pilgrimage and Parousia: Contrasts in Christian Liturgical Art,” published in Rome, Italy in 1995 by the scholarly journal, Ecclesia Orans. In addition, Dr. Prestiano’s photographic art has been recognized and shown in various regional exhibitions and in Rhode Island.