Angela Rosenthal Explained

Angela H. Rosenthal (12 September 1963 - 11 November 2010) was an art historian at Dartmouth College and an expert on the art of Angelica Kauffman. Her masterwork was Angelica Kauffman: Art and sensibility, published by Yale University Press in 2006 which won the Historians of British Art Book Award in the pre-1800 category in 2007.

Early life and family

Angela Rosenthal was born in Trier, Germany, to Peter and Anne Rosenthal. She had a sister, Felicia Rosenthal, who also became a professor. Previously she had studied at University College Ldonon, the Courtauld Institute, and Westfield College. Rosenthal attended the University of Trier, receiving a Ph.D in 1994. She married Adrian Randolph, also an art historian and professor at Dartmouth College.^[1]

Career

Rosenthal taught at the Staatsgalerie Saarbrucken and at Northwestern University^[2] before joining Dartmouth College in 1997^[3] where she was an associate professor of art history.^[4] She edited a book of essays on William Hogarth and was an expert on the Austrian painter Angelica Kauffman about whom she produced several books, including her authoritative Angelica Kauffman: Art and sensibility that was published by Yale University Press in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in 2006.^[5] In 2007, that book won the Historians of British Art Book Award in the pre-1800 category.

Rosenthal also had an interest in the visual depiction of race and humour. In 2013, a book that Rosenthal had been editing at the time of her death with Agnes Lugo-Ortiz on slave portraits in the Atlantic world was published,^[6] and in 2015, an edited work on humour in the visual arts was completed by her husband Adrian Randolph and published by the Dartmouth College Press.^[7]

Death

Rosenthal died from cancer at Dartmouth^[8] on 11 November 2010.^[9] At the time of her death, she was working on a second major work titled "The White Enlightenment: Racializing Bodies in Eighteenth-Century British Visual Culture."

Selected publications

• "Angelica Kauffman Ma(s)king Claims", Art History, March 1992, Vol. 15, Issue 1, pp 38-59.
• "Kauffman and portraiture", in Angelica Kauffman: A continental Artist in Georgian England, ed. by Wendy Wassyng Roworth. London, Reaktion Books, 1992. pp. 96-111.
• Angelika Kauffmann: Bildnismalerei im 18. Jahrhundert. Reimer, 1996. (German language)
• The other Hogarth: Aesthetics of difference. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2001. (Edited with Bernadette Fort)
• Angelica Kauffman: Art and sensibility. Yale University Press in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2006.
• Angelica Kauffman in British collections: An exhibition to commemorate the 200th anniversary of her death/[with] an essay by Angela Rosenthal: Recollecting Kauffman. Rafael Valls, London, 2007.
• Slave portraiture in the Atlantic world. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013. (Edited with Agnes Lugo-Ortiz)
• No laughing matter: Visual humor in ideas of race, nationality, and ethnicity. Dartmouth College Press, Lebanon, New Hampshire, 2015. (Edited with David Bindman and Adrian W.B. Randolph)

Notes and References

1. http://rand-wilson.com/obituaries/Rosenthal_Angela.htm Angela Rosenthal.
2. http://arthist.net/archive/785 Nachruf auf Angela Rosenthal.
3. http://thedartmouth.com/2010/11/12/beloved-art-history-prof-passes/ Beloved art history prof. passes.
4. http://arthistory.dartmouth.edu/news-events/rosenthal-lecture/about-angela About Angela.
5. http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/985#.VreMYOY2Wp8 Review: Angela Rosenthal Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility.
6. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/european-history-after-1450/slave-portraiture-atlantic-world Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World.
7. http://www.upne.com/1611688207.html No Laughing Matter.
8. https://web.archive.org/web/20120512133653/http://arthistorynewsletter.com/blog/?p=3881 Obit: Angela Rosenthal.
9. http://www.collegeart.org/obituaries/angelarosenthal Angela Rosenthal: In Memoriam.