Peter M. Lukehart (MA, 1980) is Associate Dean at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (2001-present). He was educated at Eckerd College (BA, 1977) majoring in French literature. He received an MA, in art history, in 1980 from Temple University, and a PhD, also in art history, from The Johns Hopkins University in 1988. He taught at George Mason University from 1988-1990, and then served as Mellon assistant curator of Southern Baroque Painting at the National Gallery of Art from 1990-1992.  From 1992 until 2001, he held a joint appointment at Dickinson College where he was director of the college’s museum, The Trout Gallery, and also assistant (1992-2000) and then associate (2000-2001) professor of art history. In 2000, Lukehart organized the exhibition and related website Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, which won the Dibner Award in the History of Science. He has a longstanding interest in the education and incorporation of artists in the early modern period. His publications on this subject include contributions to the exhibition  catalogue Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro: Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome (J. Paul Getty Musuem, 2007) and to The Artist’s Workshop, published under his editorship in the Studies in the History of Art series at the National Gallery of Art (1993). He also served as editor of the Accademia Seminars (2009), for which he wrote the introduction and an essay “Visions and Divisions in the Early History of the Accademia di San Luca.”  He is project director for an online research database entitled “The History of the Accademia di San Luca, c. 1590-1635: Documents from the Archivio di Stato di Roma”