Mary Pardo

Associate Professor of Art

311 Reade Rd, UNC-CH
Campus Box 3405
Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3405
919-962-2015 (work)
mpardo@email.unc.edu

Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh

Research And Teaching Interests

Mary Pardo serves as the Undergraduate Adviser for art history, and is also co-director of the UNC Rome Summer Program, an undergraduate honors study abroad. Throughout her career, she has been continuously intrigued by word and image relationships, a theme that has influenced many of her academic projects, including her current study of relations between images of love, and art in religious worship during the Renaissance. She has also found this theme to be especially fruitful in a broader scope when used as groundwork for the study and teaching of world art in undergraduate, first year seminars.

Her courses attempt to provide themes which serve as venues for sharing and learning, and range from those centered on specific artists, themes of Civic Art in Italian Renaissance centers, and Practice and Theory themes which focus on art-making techniques and the theories surrounding them.

Pardo’s writing has explored Venetian art and culture in several ways, including the comparison of poetry and painting in connection with the Venetian Renaissance. She has also published on the topic of the art and theory of Leonardo da Vinci.