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Biography
Dr. Milliner holds an M.A. & Ph.D. in art history from Princeton University, and an M.Div from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a seven-time appointee to the Curatorial Advisory Board of the United States Senate, and has written for publications ranging from The New York Times to First Things. He was awarded a Commonwealth fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and is author most recently of The Everlasting People: G.K. Chesterton and the First Nations and Mother of the Lamb: The Story of a Global Icon. He writes a monthly magazine at Comment entitled "Material Mysticism."
Education
Princeton University
Ph.D., Art and Archaeology, 2011.
Princeton University
M.A., Medieval and Byzantine Art, 2007
Princeton Theological Seminary
M.Div., Theology, 2005
Wheaton College
B.A., Art History, 1998
Areas of Expertise
- Art History
- Byzantine Art
- Medieval Art
- The Virgin Mary
- Visual Theology
- History of Art & Architecture
- Renaissance Art
- History
- Contemporary Art
- Archaeology
- Native American Art
Media
Material Mysticism at Comment magazine.
Wade Center interview about Charles Williams' Descent of the Dove
PBS Closer to Truth interviews
“What Men Can Learn from Mary the Mother of Jesus,”The New York Times (March 25th, 2020).
Visual Commentary on Scripture: Romans 3:9-31
Wheaton College Prof Named to Senate Advisory Board
WDCB
A Wheaton College art history professor has been named to a prestigious government advisory board. Dr. Matt Milliner is now a member of the U.S. Senate Curatorial Advisory Board. The panel, which includes 12 other historians, curators and experts from some of the country's most respected institutions, is responsible for advising the Senate Commission on Art. Milliner tells WDCB News Reporter Gary Zidek the advisory panel’s job is to help the five Senators on that Commission.
Courses Taught
- Art Survey (ART 101)
- History of Art & Architecture I (ART 251)
- History of Art & Architecture II (ART 351)
- Medieval & Byzantine Art (ART 352)
- Renaissance & Reformation Art (ART 353)
- Senior Seminar in Art History (ART 494)
- What is an Image? (CORE First Year Seminar)
- Mother of God: The Art & Theology of the Virgin Mary (CORE Advanced Integrative Seminar)
Select Publications
Mother of the Lamb: The Story of a Global Icon (Fortress Press, 2022)
The Everlasting People: G.K. Chesterton and the First Nations (InterVarsity Press, 2021)
"Cities of Light: Phillip K. Smith III and the Light & Space Movement," in Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord (Routledge, 2023)
"Chagall's Cathedral: Faith, Hope and Love at the Art Institute of Chicago," in God in the Modern Wing, (InterVarsity Press, 2021).
Emblems of the End: Byzantium's Dark Angels, Études Byzantines et Post-Byzantines, Romanian Society for Byzantine Studies (2021).
"Turtle Island Renaissance," Journal of the North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies (2019).
"Visual Ecumenism: The Coy Communion of Art," in The Sacraments and Christian Unity, (InterVarsity Press, 2018).
The Blessed Virgin Mary, The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, 2017.
"Culture Breaking: In Praise of Iconoclasm," in The Image of God in an Image Driven Age, (InterVarsity Press, 2016).
"Icon as Theology: The Byzantine ‘Virgin of Predestination,’" in ReVisioning: Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art (Wipf & Stock, 2014).
Videos
TowerTalk
Artists Gone Mild
Artists have a reputation for being rule breakers, but a far more pervasive theme is one of artists turning to traditional religion and illustrating that conversion through their artwork. In this TowerTalk, Professor of Art History Dr. Matt Milliner ’98 explores the theme of repentance by paralleling the lives of four artists from the Renaissance with four artists from modern times.
