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Patricia Fortini Brown

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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).{{Cite web|last=mlr33@cam.ac.uk|title=List of Slade Professors in the Department from 1869 – Department of History of Art|url=https://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/aboutthedept/sladeprofs/sladeprofs|access-date=2020-07-04|website=www.hoart.cam.ac.uk|date=5 March 2012 |language=en}} She served as president of the Renaissance Society of America (2000-2002),{{Cite web|title=RSA Presidents - Renaissance Society of America|url=https://www.rsa.org/page/Presidents|access-date=2020-07-04|website=www.rsa.org}} 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-[http://mcities.cyi.ac.cy 20], and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Save Venice since 2004.{{Cite web|title=Save Venice Inc. {{!}} Dedicated to preserving the artistic heritage of Venice|url=https://savevenice.org/|access-date=2020-07-04|website=Save Venice Inc. {{!}} Dedicated to preserving the artistic heritage of Venice|language=en}}

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).{{Cite web|title=Award Winners - Renaissance Society of America|url=https://www.rsa.org/page/AwardWinners|access-date=2020-07-04|website=www.rsa.org}}

Honors and awards

  • 1980: Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies International Doctoral Research Fellowship
  • 1980: Fulbright-Hays Grant for dissertation research in Italy
  • 1982, 1998: Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grants for Research in Venice
  • 1989: Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome{{Cite web|last=Brown|first=Patricia Fortini|date=|title=FELLOWS - AFFILIATED FELLOWS - RESIDENTS 1990–2010|url=https://aarome.org/people/alumni/sof/directory|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=July 4, 2020|website=aarome.org}}
  • 1989: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship{{Cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Patricia Fortini Brown|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/patricia-fortini-brown/|access-date=2020-07-04|language=en-US}}
  • 1991-95: Andrew W. Mellon Professorship, Princeton University{{Cite web|title=Professorships {{!}} Dean of the Faculty|url=https://dof.princeton.edu/about/faculty/professorships|access-date=2020-07-05|website=dof.princeton.edu}}
  • 1992: Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, Italian American Woman of the Year for scholarship in Italian Studies
  • 1998: Folger Shakespeare Library, Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
  • 2010: Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, elected Socio Straniero (Corresponding Fellow){{Cite web|title=Soci stranieri|url=https://ateneoveneto.org/en/soci/stranieri|access-date=2020-07-04|website=Ateneo Veneto|language=en}}
  • 2010: Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitor in the Visual Arts, Reed College{{Cite web|title=Reed College {{!}} Art {{!}} Events {{!}} Ostrow {{!}} Patricia Fortini Brown|url=https://www.reed.edu/art/news-events/ostrow/patricia_brown.html|access-date=2020-07-05|website=www.reed.edu}}
  • 2011: Serena Medal, awarded annually by the British Academy for ‘eminent services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history, literature, art and economics’{{Cite web|title=Serena Medal|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prizes-medals/serena-medal/|access-date=2020-07-04|website=The British Academy|language=en}}
  • 2014: Edward J. Olszewski Lecture in Italian Art, Case Western Reserve University{{Cite web|date=2014-09-29|title=Retired Princeton University art scholar to give inaugural Edward J. Olszewski Lecture in Italian Art, Oct. 8|url=https://thedaily.case.edu/retired-princeton-university-renaissance-art-scholar-to-give-inaugural-edward-j-olszewski-lecture-in-italian-art-oct-8/|access-date=2020-07-05|website=The Daily|language=en-US}}
  • 2016: Sydney Freedberg Lecture in Italian Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
  • 2020: Renaissance Society of America, Paul Oscar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award{{Cite web|title=The Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award - Renaissance Society of America|url=https://www.rsa.org/page/pokaward|access-date=2020-07-04|website=www.rsa.org}}  

Selected publications

  • Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio (Yale University Press, 1988, 310 pp.).{{Cite book|last=Brown|first=Patricia Fortini|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RQM5JjFqlmsC|title=Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio|date=1988|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-04743-1|language=en}} (Finalist, Premio "Salotto Veneto 89", for the best book published on Venetian culture)
  • Le scuole (extract from Storia di Venezia, vol. 5, Italian Enciclopedia Treccani, translated by Luis Contarello, Roma : 1996)
  • Venice & Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past (Yale University Press, 1996, 361 pp.).{{Cite book|last=Brown|first=Patricia Fortini|url=https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/vx021f13x#reviews|title=Venice & antiquity: the Venetian sense of the past|date=1996 |publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-06700-2 }} (Winner of the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize;{{Cite web|title=The Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize - Renaissance Society of America|url=https://www.rsa.org/page/gordanprize|access-date=2020-07-04|website=www.rsa.org}} (Finalist, Charles Rufus Morey Prize, College Art Association)
  • Art and Life in Renaissance Venice (Harry N. Abrams, 1997, 176 pp.).{{Cite book|last=Brown|first=Patricia Fortini|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=idPrAAAACAAJ|title=Art and Life in Renaissance Venice|date=2005|publisher=Prentice Hall|isbn=978-0-13-134402-0|language=en}} (with French, German, Korean, Chinese, Spanish translations)
  • Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004, 312 pp.).{{Cite book|last=Brown|first=Patricia Fortini|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z74tNrZgebQC|title=Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family|date=2004|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-10236-9|language=en}} (Finalist, Charles Rufus Morey Prize, College Art Association; Honorable Mention, Premio Salimbeni per La Storia e la Critica d’Arte)
  • Gabriele Matino and Patricia Fortini Brown, Carpaccio in Venice. A Guide (Venice: Marsilio Editori, 2020).;{{Cite book|title=Carpaccio in Venice|isbn=978-88-297-0781-2|last1=Matino|first1=Gabriele|date=15 June 2021|publisher=Marsilio }} idem, Carpaccio a Venezia: Itinerari (Venezia: Marsilio Editori, 2020).{{Cite book|title=Carpaccio a Venezia|isbn=978-88-297-0772-0|last1=Matino|first1=Gabriele|year=2020|publisher=Marsilio }}
  • The Venetian Bride: Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and its Empire (Oxford University Press, 2021, 448 pp.){{Cite book|last=Brown|first=Patricia Fortini|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-venetian-bride-9780192894571?q=fortini%20brown&lang=en&cc=us|title=The Venetian Bride: Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and its Empire|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2021|isbn=9780192894571|location=Oxford}}

References

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External links

  • https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/brown-patricia-fortini-1936
  • https://princeton.academia.edu/PatriciaBrown
  • http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86007475/
  • https://artandarchaeology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/patricia-fortini-brown
  • Ann Waldron, "From Artist to Art Historian'," Princeton Alumni Weekly, October 27, 1993, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ryFbAAAAYAAJ&dq=Ann+Waldron%2C+%27From+Artist+to+Art+Historian%27%2C+Princeton+Alumni+Weekly%2C+October+27%2C+1993%2C+p.+5&pg=RA2-PA5 5]
  • Theo Panayides, "Venice scholar keeps youth on her side’, Cyprus-mail.com, April 25, [https://cyprus-mail.com/2017/04/25/academic-channeling-creative-curiosity-keeps-youth-side/ 2017]
  • The Aesthetics of Water: Wellheads, Cisterns, and Fountains in the Venetian Dominion,” The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art, National Gallery of Art, November 6, [https://www.nga.gov/audio-video/freedberg.html 2016]
  • "From Carpaccio's "Saint Ursula" to Titian's "Lady in White": The Feminine Mystique in Renaissance Venice," Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, February 9, [https://www.nortonsimon.org/learn/multimedia/videos-podcasts-and-lectures/lecture-from-carpaccios-sant-ursula-to-titians-lady-in-white-the-feminine-mystique-in-renaissance-venice/ 2019]  
  • Save Venice July 2020 Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/savevenice.org/julynews2020?e=9d436dd5f9

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