DAVID ROSAND

Professor Rosand was the third art history "reader" of my disstertation. At the defense, where he served as Chair, for some reason we ended up facining each other at the short ends of a long table. The other four readers were on the long sides of the table. This accidental configuration made me feel like we were parents at a dinner table with the "children" on the sides; this boosted my confidence, since one reader told me as we walked in that he had not read my thesis; then he asked...

Last June I returned to Venice for a visit and of course thought of David. I made a point of seeking out Casa Muraro, although we were unable to get inside. Such a beautiful city, and amongst the good memories it evokes is being a student of David's. He has certainly helped me to appreciate its art, and art more generally.

David was one of my favorite professors as an undergraduate and art history graduate student, a kind and supportive mentor at a time I needed one. Through no fault of his, I left art history with a Master's degree when I transferred to Columbia medical school in 1978. Years later, when I served on the Program Committee of the American Psychiatric Association and had the opportunity to invite plenary speakers to the Annual Meeting, I chose David, who gave a great presentation on "The...

One of the most stunning memories of my life is that of walking across Piazza San Marco in Venice and suddenly seeing his stunning face smiling up at me from a dining table.

David remains enshrined in my memory from our years together on Jester of Columbia... a brilliant artist and brilliant human being. Also, in 1962, strolling through Piazza San Marco while returning from a medical school elective in Liberia, and, as the flock of pigeons scattered, there, seated at a cafe table, is DAVID...What a wonderful surprise! .

David Rosand indulged my fledgling Veronese queries in 1996, during one of his famous Titian Seminars at Columbia. By 1997, my late husband, Robert Colescott (1925-2009), had opened his solo exhibition at the 47th Venice Biennale (U.S. Pavilion) and our dash to complete and show another - his last - decade of work had begun. Even though it took until 2011 (at Frederick Ilchman and Virginia Brilliant's Veronese Symposium, in Sarasota FL) to revisit that 1996 conversation - a group of...

The alumni of Camps Mohican-Reena in Palmer, Mass. mourn the loss of their fellow camper.

As an older scholar, I have always followed David's worik with admiration and pleasure; We shared a bond with another brilliant colleague in Venice, Michelangelo Muraro, whose house was a home away from home, and was willed to the community. David has devoted a great amount of energy and concern to fulfill Mic's hope that the house and library can be preserved intact for the benefit of art historians of all ages and nations..