The Department of Art

Patricia L. Reilly


Associate Professor of Art History and Art History Coordinator
Office: Beardsley 205
Telephone: 610-690-3730
Email:preilly1@swarthmore.edu

Nike (Victory) of Samothrace, 220-190 BC
Rhodian scuptor
marble, 8'
Louvre Museum, Paris

Education:

Ph.D., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
M.A., History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
B.A., History of Art, University of California, Santa Cruz

Areas of Specialization:

Italian Renaissance Art & Art Theory
Art Education and Academics
The Graphic Arts


Courses:

ArtH 001E - First Year Seminar: Michelangelo and Renaissance Culture
ArtH 002 - Western Art
ArtH 013 - The Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome
ArtH 051 - The Art of Renaissance Florence and Environs
ArtH 056 - Print Culture in Early Modern Europe
ArtH 151 - The Visual Culture of Renaissance Rome (Seminar)


Selected Publications:

Raphael and Vasari at the Medici Courts: Strategies of Mannerist Painting [book manuscript]

Co-Editor, with Roberta Olson and Rupert Shepherd, "The Biography of the Object in late Medieval and Renaissance Italy", Blackwell Publishing, 2006

Co-Editor, with Roberta Olson and Rupert Shepherd, Renaissance Studies Special Issue, "The Biography of the Object in late Medieval and Renaissance Italy."

"Drawing the Line: Benvenuto Cellini's On the Principles and Method of Learning the Art of Drawing and the Question of Amateur Drawing Education," in Benvenuto Cellini, eds. Margaret A. Gallucci and Paolo L. Rossi, Cambridge University Press, 2004

"The Taming of the Blue: Writing Out Color in Italian Renaissance
Theory," in The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, eds., HarperCollins, 1992, 86 99

"Writing Out Color in Renaissance Theory," Genders 12, Winter 1991, 77 99


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