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Patricia Fortini Brown
Birth Name:Patricia Ann Fortini
Birth Date:November 16, 1936
Birth Place:Oakland, California
Occupation:Professor of Art & Archaeology
Children:Paul Wells Meyer, John Jeffrey Meyer
Education:Fremont High School, Brigham Young University
Alma Mater:University of California, Berkeley
Discipline:Italian Renaissance art
Sub Discipline:Art and history of Venice
Workplaces:Princeton University

Patricia Fortini Brown (born 16 November 1936) is Professor Emerita of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University.

Venice and its empire, from the late middle ages through the early modern period, has been the primary site of her scholarly research, with a focus on how works of art and architecture can materialize and sum up significant aspects of the culture in which they were produced. Her recent work has focused on Venetian territories in the Mediterranean and the Terraferma, particularly the Friuli.

Life and career

Brown was born and raised in Oakland, California, where she graduated from Fremont High School (1954). After attending Brigham Young University, she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with an A.B. in Political Science (1959). Brown was active as a studio artist for 17 years and raised two sons before beginning graduate work. Returning to Berkeley in 1976, she earned an M.A. (1978) and PhD (1983) in the History of Art. Brown taught at Princeton for 27 years (1983-2010), where she was the first woman to be promoted to tenure (1989) in the Department of Art & Archaeology and served as department chair for six years (1999 -2005).

Brown was Slade Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Cambridge (2000-2001).[1] She served as president of the Renaissance Society of America (2000-2002),[2] and was a member of the Board of Advisors for the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (2004-7). She serves on an Advisory committee for “Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval and Early Modern Cities," a Getty-funded research project (with research trips with the MCities group to Nicosia, Cordoba, Granada, Rhodes, and Thessaloniki), 2018-20, and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Save Venice since 2004.[3]

In recognition of her retirement in 2010, Brown was honored with eight sessions at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Venice, as well as with a symposium at Princeton University: "Giorgione and His Times: Confronting Alternate Realities" on the 500th anniversary of the death of Giorgione. Selected papers from the two symposia were published in a Festschrift edited by Blake de Maria and Mary E. Frank, Reflections on Renaissance Venice: a celebration of Patricia Fortini Brown (Milan: 5 Continents Editions; New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2013) (Winner of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Book Prize in 2015 from the Renaissance Society of America).[4]

Honors and awards

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: mlr33@cam.ac.uk. List of Slade Professors in the Department from 1869 – Department of History of Art. 2020-07-04. www.hoart.cam.ac.uk. 5 March 2012 . en.
  2. Web site: RSA Presidents - Renaissance Society of America. 2020-07-04. www.rsa.org.
  3. Web site: Save Venice Inc. Dedicated to preserving the artistic heritage of Venice. 2020-07-04. Save Venice Inc. Dedicated to preserving the artistic heritage of Venice. en.
  4. Web site: Award Winners - Renaissance Society of America. 2020-07-04. www.rsa.org.
  5. Web site: Brown. Patricia Fortini. FELLOWS - AFFILIATED FELLOWS - RESIDENTS 1990–2010. July 4, 2020. aarome.org.
  6. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Patricia Fortini Brown. 2020-07-04. en-US.
  7. Web site: Professorships Dean of the Faculty. 2020-07-05. dof.princeton.edu.
  8. Web site: Soci stranieri. 2020-07-04. Ateneo Veneto. en.
  9. Web site: Reed College Art Events Ostrow Patricia Fortini Brown. 2020-07-05. www.reed.edu.
  10. Web site: Serena Medal. 2020-07-04. The British Academy. en.
  11. Web site: 2014-09-29. Retired Princeton University art scholar to give inaugural Edward J. Olszewski Lecture in Italian Art, Oct. 8. 2020-07-05. The Daily. en-US.
  12. Web site: The Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award - Renaissance Society of America. 2020-07-04. www.rsa.org.
  13. Book: Brown, Patricia Fortini. Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio. 1988. Yale University Press. 978-0-300-04743-1. en.
  14. Book: Brown, Patricia Fortini. Venice & antiquity: the Venetian sense of the past. Yale University Press.
  15. Web site: The Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize - Renaissance Society of America. 2020-07-04. www.rsa.org.
  16. Book: Brown, Patricia Fortini. Art and Life in Renaissance Venice. 2005. Prentice Hall. 978-0-13-134402-0. en.
  17. Book: Brown, Patricia Fortini. Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family. 2004. Yale University Press. 978-0-300-10236-9. en.
  18. Book: Carpaccio in Venice. 978-88-297-0781-2. Matino. Gabriele. 15 June 2021.
  19. Book: Carpaccio a Venezia. 978-88-297-0772-0. Matino. Gabriele. 2020.
  20. Book: Brown, Patricia Fortini. The Venetian Bride: Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and its Empire. Oxford University Press. 2021. 9780192894571. Oxford.

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