BIOGRAPHY

Associate Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Architecture, Jean-François Bédard obtained his doctoral degree in the Department of Art History and Archeology at Columbia University. His research focuses on the architecture and the visual culture of court society in early modern France. Bédard’s publications include Decorative Games: Ornament, Rhetoric, and Noble Culture in the Work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord, published by the University of Delaware Press; “Political Renewal and Architectural Revival during the French Regency: Oppenord’s Palais-Royal” in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians; “Huquier’s Prints after Oppenord’s Ripa,” in Print Quarterly; and “Beds and Thrones: Reforming Aulic Space in Late Eighteenth-Century France,” in the Journal of Art Historiography. Forthcoming essays will be included in the new edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s History of Architecture (Batsford) and in The Companion to Eighteenth-Century Architecture (Wiley-Blackwell). Fellowships and visiting scholarships from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Foundation, the Kress Foundation, the Graham Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris have supported his work.