Patricia Reilly
Associate Professor of Art History
On leave Spring 2021
Contact
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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: Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age
ArtH 002 - The Western Tradition
ArtH 013 - The Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome
ArtH 016 - Italian Renaissance Art
ArtH 020 - Major Workshop
ArtH 026 - Colloquium: Art Chemistry and Conservation
ArtH 038 - Women and Art
ArtH 051 - The Art of Renaissance Florence and Environs
ArtH 057 - Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo
ArtH 151 - Seminar: Visual Culture of Renaissance Rome
Selected Publications and Works in Progress
Giorgio Vasari and the Spectacular Art of Mannerism [book ms. in final stages]
“Raphael’s Sala dei Chiaroscuri as Triumphal Facade,” in Kim Butler Wingfield
and Tracy Cosgriff, eds., Revisiting Raphael's Vatican Stanze (Harvey Miller/Brepols),forthcoming, January 2020
"Triumphal Chiaroscuro Painting During the Reign of Julius II," in Pascale Rihouet, ed., Eternal Ephemera: The Papal Possesso in Rome and its multi-faceted legacy, under consideration with Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto
"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
