Dr. Margaret Franklin

Margaret Franklin, PhD, University of Cambridge (2000) teaches Renaissance and Baroque art in the department. Her courses cover both Early and High Renaissance art in Italy, Renaissance art in Northern Europe and Baroque art in both Northern and Southern Europe. She has published numerous articles which focus on uomini famosi/donne illustri images, including Raphael's Parnassus, the papal portraits in the Sistine Chapel and Mantegna's Dido,and has writtenhas written a chapter on visualizing the feminine ideal in the courts and communes of Renaissance Italy for an anthology published by St. Martin's Press. Sherecently publishedBoccaccio's Heroines: Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society,a book on famous women in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy.

12:30 a.m - 1:30 p.m, Monday

 9:30 - 10:30 a.m, Wednesday