Patricia Reilly
Associate Professor of Art History, Chair of Art History
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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
The Paintings and Lives of Giorgio Vasari
The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
Art Education and Academies
Courses
ARTH 001E First Year Seminar: Michelangelo and Renaissance Culture
ARTH 001M First Year Seminar: Leonardo: Art, Science and Engineering
ARTH 001K First Year Seminar: Colonialist Imagery in the Dutch Golden Age
ARTH 002 The Western Tradition
ARTH 013 Ancient Greece and Rome
ARTH 016 Italian Renaissance Art
ARTH 026 Painting, Chemistry, and Conservation
ARTH 038 Exhibiting Women
ARTH 040 Michelangelo to Mussolini: The Classical Tradition in Rome
ARTH 051 The Art of Renaissance Florence and Environs
ARTH 052 Global Renaissance
ARTH 057 Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo
ARTH 076 Art Museums: History Theory, Controversy
ARTH 092 Arts of Propaganda in Early Modern Europe
ARTH 100 Senior Capstone
ARTH 138 European Art and Global Expansion: Honors Seminar
ARTH 151 Visual Culture of Renaissance Rome: Honors SeminarPlease view full course details in the online College Bulletin Course Catalog here.
Selected Publications and Works in Progress
Triumphalist Painting in the Age of the Italian Wars (book ms.)
“Raphael’s Sala dei Chiaroscuri as Triumphal Facade,” in Kim Butler Wingfield and Tracy Cosgriff, eds., Revisiting Raphael's Vatican Stanze (Harvey Miller/Brepols), 2022, 232-49.
"Triumphal Chiaroscuro Painting During the Reign of Julius II," in Jennifer Maria DeSilva and Pascale Rihouet, eds., Eternal Ephemera: The Papal Possesso in Rome and its multi-faceted legacy. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2020, 125-64.
"Artists' Training," Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance, ed. Michael Wyatt, Cambridge University Press, 2014, 82-97
“Raphael’s Fire in the Borgo and the Italian Pictorial Vernacular,” The Art Bulletin, December 2010, 308-25
Co-Editor, with Roberta Olson and Rupert Shepherd, The Biography of the Object in late Medieval and Renaissance Italy, Blackwell Publishing, 2006
“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
