Draft:Daniel Wallace Maze

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Daniel Wallace Maze is an art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance art, particularly Giovanni Bellini and Venetian workshop practice. He is the author of Young Bellini (Yale University Press, 2021), a study that reconsiders Bellini's birth, family relationships, and early career.

Education and career

Maze studied philosophy at Williams College and completed graduate work in art history at the University of California, Los Angeles. He held a Samuel H. Kress predoctoral fellowship at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence from 2011 to 2013, a Fulbright scholarship at the University of York in 2016–2017, and a Barbara Thom postdoctoral fellowship at the Huntington Library in 2017–2018. His research on the Bellini workshop received an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship. He later taught Renaissance art at the University of Iowa.

Scholarship

In a 2013 article in Renaissance Quarterly, Maze argued from Venetian legal records that Giovanni Bellini was Jacopo Bellini's half-brother rather than his son, and that Giovanni was born in the 1420s, earlier than many modern estimates.

Young Bellini develops that argument into a broader reconstruction of Bellini's early life and work.

Reception

The book received published reviews from Christopher J. Nygren in The Art Newspaper, Irene Brooke in The Burlington Magazine, John T. Paoletti in Choice, Meredith J. Gill in Speculum, Silvia Tita in Studies in Iconography, and Steven Cody in The Sixteenth Century Journal. Nygren described Maze's treatment of the archival evidence as a “thorough recontextualisation” and wrote that its revised chronology could produce a “paradigm shift” in Bellini studies.

Film work

Before his academic career, Maze wrote and directed the independent drama Ten Hundred Kings under the name D.W. Maze. A Williams College Philosophy alumni page identifies Daniel W. Maze as a filmmaker and states that he wrote and directed Ten Hundred Kings, which was scheduled to premiere at the Austin Film Festival in October 2000. The film stars Bill Camp and Elizabeth Marvel as a married couple struggling after the death of their child. Dennis Schwartz, reviewing the film after a screening at the Williamstown Film Festival, called it a “brilliant and moving indie drama” and praised its tension, performances, and emotional complexity. Film Threat described it as a “solid drama,” highlighting its layered treatment of secrets within the couple’s marriage, its departure from a standard three-act structure, and the performances by Camp and Marvel.

Selected works

• Maze, Daniel Wallace (2021). Young Bellini. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-23661-3.
• Maze, Daniel Wallace (2013). "Giovanni Bellini: Birth, Parentage, and Independence". Renaissance Quarterly. 66 (3): 783–823. doi:10.1086/673583.
• Maze, Daniel Wallace (2017). "The Life of Giovanni Bellini". In Gasparotto, Davide (ed.). Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice. pp. 36–55.

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