Wendy Wassyng Roworth is professor emerita of art history at the University of Rhode Island.[1] Roworth is a specialist in eighteenth century British and Italian art and the art of Angelica Kauffman.

Roworth curated the exhibition "Angelica Kauffman: A continental artist in Georgian England" which was held at the Royal Pavilion Art Gallery & Museums, Brighton in 1992 and also in York. She edited the accompanying book.[2]

Roworth has held fellowships with the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a scholar in residence at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington D.C.

Selected publications

  • Angelica Kauffman: A continental Artist in Georgian England. Reaktion Books, London, 1992. (Editor) ISBN 0948462418
  • "Anatomy is destiny: Regarding the body in the art of Angelica Kauffman", in Femininity and masculinity in eighteenth-century art and culture. Edited by Gillian Perry & Michael Rossington. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1994. ISBN 9780719042287
  • "Painting for profit and pleasure: Angelica Kauffman and the art business in Rome", Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 29, Number 2, Winter 1995–96. pp. 225–228.[3]
  • "Documenting Angelica Kauffman's life and art", Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 37, Number 3, Spring 2004, pp. 478–482.[4]
  • "Pulling Parrhasius's curtain: Trickery and fakery in the Roman art world" in Richard Wrigley (ed.) Regarding romantic Rome, Peter Lang, 2007.
  • Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and culture in the age of the Grand Tour. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2009. (Edited by Paula Findlen and Catherine M. Sama) ISBN 9780804759045[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Wendy Wassyng Roworth | department of art & art history". web.uri.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  2. ↑ "Foreword" by Jessica Rutherford in Wendy Wassyng Roworth (Ed.) (1992) Angelica Kauffman: A continental artist in Georgian England. London: Reaktion Books. p. 7. ISBN 0948462418
  3. ↑ Painting for Profit and Pleasure: Angelica Kauffman and the Art Business in Rome. Wendy Wassyng Roworth. Project Muse. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  4. ↑ Documenting Angelica Kauffman's Life and Art. Wendy Wassyng Roworth. Project Muse. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  5. ↑ Dr Melissa Calaresu, Review of Italy’s Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour. Retrieved 14 February 2016.


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