

With Norma Broude, she co-edited four books on feminism and art history that have become basic texts in American universities and co-curated the recent exhibition Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators for the AU Museum, Katzen Arts Center.

Her publications include two books and other writings on Artemisia Gentileschi, work that pioneered modern scholarship on a major 17th century Italian artist and her most recent book, Brunelleschi’s Egg: Nature, Art and Gender in Renaissance Italy (2010). Mary Garrard Professor Emerita Department of Art Contact Additional Positions at AU Professor Emerita of Art History Degrees Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University (1970)MA, Harvard University (1960)BA, Newcomb College (Tulane University) (1958)īest known for her groundbreaking feminist scholarship, Garrard has drawn on feminist theory and activism to illuminate and reinterpret art of the Italian Renaissance-Baroque period.
