MURPHY, Caroline P. 1969-

PERSONAL:

Born 1969. Education: University College, London, B.A., 1990; Harvard University, M.A., 1991; University College, London, Ph.D., 1996.

ADDRESSES:

Home—CA. Office—Arts Building 234, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Art historian and author. University of California at Riverside, associate professor.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Harvard University Villa i Tatti fellow for Renaissance Studies, 2001-02; Getty grant, 2002.

WRITINGS:

Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and Her Patrons in Sixteenth-Century Bologna, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 2003.

Contributor to books on art history.

SIDELIGHTS:

Caroline P. Murphy is an author, professor, and art historian whose research centers on Renaissance art history and European gender and history. Through a series of grants and fellowships, Murphy was able to study art history extensively throughout Italy.

Murphy drew from her extensive research and study of Italian art history to write Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and Her Patrons in Sixteenth-Century Bologna. The book focuses on the life and work of Italian Renaissance painter Lavinia Fontana, and it includes 106 plates illustrating Fontana's works. Murphy also incorporates historical significance into Fontana's story. Library Journal contributor Nancy Mactague commented, "Murphy ably achieves her goals of setting Fontana's painting career, patrons, and business success into the context of sixteenth-century Bolognese society."

Murphy's efforts on Lavinia Fontana have received praise from a wide range of critics. In one review, Booklist contributor Donna Seaman credited Murphy with writing the only "in-depth, English-language treatise on heretofore overlooked Fontana and her world," and noted that "the resulting finely illustrated volume is exhilarating."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, May 15, 2003, Donna Seaman, review of Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and Her Patrons in Sixteenth-Century Bologna, p. 1627.

Library Journal, June 15, 2003, Nancy Mactague, review of Lavinia Fontana, p. 68.

ONLINE

New York Public Library Art and Architecture Collection Web site,http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/artarc/newacq.html (October 5, 2004), Lou Acierno, review of Lavinia Fontana.

University of California at Riverside Web site,http://www.ucr.edu/ (September 28, 2004), "Caroline P. Murphy."