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American art historian
Marcia Hall (born 1939), who usually publishes as Marcia B. Hall , is an American art historian, who is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Renaissance Art at the
Tyler School of Art and Architecture of
Temple University in
Philadelphia . Hall's scholarship has concentrated on
Italian Renaissance painting , mostly of the sixteenth century, and especially
Raphael and
Michelangelo .
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Biography
Marcia Brown was born in
Washington, D.C. in 1939 to Charles Edward Brown (1894–1949), a business executive, and Frances Peebles (later Ocheltree) (1901–1991).
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She attended
Wellesley College , graduating in 1960.
[1] In 1961 she married Charles Arthur Mann Hall (1924–1990), then the Dean of Wellesley's Chapel.
[2] She earned an MA from
Radcliffe College in 1962 and won a
Fulbright Fellowship in 1963 to research her dissertation on the renovations in the late 16th century to
Santa Maria Novella and
Santa Croce , supervised by
Sydney Joseph Freedberg at
Harvard University .
[2] She is also the first scholar to discover the
rood screen in both churches once removed by
Giorgio Vasari during the
Counter-Reformation .
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[4] She earned her PhD from Harvard in 1967.
[1] She has been teaching art history class relates to Italian Renaissance at Temple University since 1973.
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Her visiting fellowships include the
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1987–1988), and twice at
I Tatti , Florence.
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Works
1979. Renovation and Counter-Reformation: Vasari and Duke Cosimo in Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce, 1565–77 . New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
1990. After Raphael: Painting in Central Italy in the Sixteenth Century . Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
0-521-48245-3
1992. Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting . Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
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2002. Michelangelo. The Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel . New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams.
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2005. The Cambridge Companion to Raphael (ed.) Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
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2011. The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio . London and New York: Yale University Press.
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2019. The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting . New Haven: Yale University Press.
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References
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"Marcia Hall, PhD" . Tyler School of Art . Temple University. 27 March 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2021 .
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d Sorensen, Lee, ed.
"Hall, Marcia B." , Dictionary of Art Historians . 11 August 2021.
^ Hall, Marcia B. (1974).
"The Tramezzo in Santa Croce, Florence, Reconstructed" . The Art Bulletin . 56 (3): 325–341.
doi :
10.2307/3049260 .
ISSN
0004-3079 .
JSTOR
3049260 .
^ Hall, Marcia B. (1974).
"The Ponte in S. Maria Novella: The Problem of the Rood Screen in Italy" . Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes . 37 : 157–173.
doi :
10.2307/750838 .
ISSN
0075-4390 .
JSTOR
750838 .
S2CID
195009392 .
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"Nonfiction Book Review: Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting by Marcia B. Hall, Author Cambridge University Press $70 (288p) ISBN 978-0-521-39222-8" . PublishersWeekly.com . Retrieved 11 August 2021 .
^ Hills, Paul (1995).
"Marcia B. Hall. Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 48 col. pls. + 83 b&w pls. + xiii + 273 pp. $60" . Renaissance Quarterly . 48 (1): 190–192.
doi :
10.2307/2863351 .
ISSN
0034-4338 .
JSTOR
2863351 .
S2CID
163190316 .
^ Gill, Meredith J. (1992).
"Review of Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting" . Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme . 16 (4): 83–85.
ISSN
0034-429X .
JSTOR
43444866 .
^ Stahl, Louise Z. (1993).
"Color and meaning: Practice and theory in renaissance painting, by Marcia Hall, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, 1991, 288 pp., $60" . Color Research & Application . 18 (4): 288.
doi :
10.1002/col.5080180412 .
ISSN
1520-6378 .
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"Nonfiction Book Review: Michelangelo: The Frescoes of Sistine Chapel by Marcia B. Hall, Author, Takashi Okamura, Photographer ABRAMS $39.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3530-3" . PublishersWeekly.com . Retrieved 11 August 2021 .
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The Cambridge Companion to Raphael via scholar.google.com . Retrieved 2022-12-27.
^ Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (2012).
"Marcia B. Hall. The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. x + 310 pp. $75. ISBN: 978–0–300–16967–6" . Renaissance Quarterly . 65 (3): 885–886.
doi :
10.1086/668316 .
ISSN
0034-4338 .
^ Arnold, Jeremy W. H. (2012).
"The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio – By Marcia B. Hall" . Religious Studies Review . 38 (1): 14.
doi :
10.1111/j.1748-0922.2011.01576_1.x .
ISSN
1748-0922 .
^ Mansfield, Elizabeth C. (2021).
"The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting by Marcia B. Hall (review)" . Eighteenth-Century Studies . 54 (2): 486–489.
doi :
10.1353/ecs.2021.0020 .
ISSN
1086-315X .
S2CID
234200058 .
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