Patricia Fortini Brown

Patricia Fortini Brown
Born
Patricia Ann Fortini

November 16, 1936
Oakland, California
OccupationProfessor of Art & Archaeology
ChildrenPaul Wells Meyer, John Jeffrey Meyer
Academic background
EducationFremont High School, Brigham Young University
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Academic work
DisciplineItalian Renaissance art
Sub-disciplineArt and history of Venice
InstitutionsPrinceton University
MCities group at Salamis, Northern Cyprus
Lecture at Norton Simon Museum in 2018

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

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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).[1] She served as president of the Renaissance Society of America (2000-2002),[2] 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), 2018-20, and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Save Venice since 2004.[3]

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).[4]

Honors and awards

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  • 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[5]
  • 1989: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship[6]
  • 1991-95: Andrew W. Mellon Professorship, Princeton University[7]
  • 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)[8]
  • 2010: Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitor in the Visual Arts, Reed College[9]
  • 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’[10]
  • 2014: Edward J. Olszewski Lecture in Italian Art, Case Western Reserve University[11]
  • 2016: Sydney Freedberg Lecture in Italian Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
  • 2020: Renaissance Society of America, Paul Oscar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award[12]  

Selected publications

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  • Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio (Yale University Press, 1988, 310 pp.).[13] (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.).[14] (Winner of the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize;[15] (Finalist, Charles Rufus Morey Prize, College Art Association)
  • Art and Life in Renaissance Venice (Harry N. Abrams, 1997, 176 pp.).[16] (with French, German, Korean, Chinese, Spanish translations)
  • Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004, 312 pp.).[17] (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).;[18] idem, Carpaccio a Venezia: Itinerari (Venezia: Marsilio Editori, 2020).[19]
  • The Venetian Bride: Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and its Empire (Oxford University Press, 2021, 448 pp.)[20]

References

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  1. ^ [email protected] (5 March 2012). "List of Slade Professors in the Department from 1869 – Department of History of Art". www.hoart.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-07-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "RSA Presidents - Renaissance Society of America". www.rsa.org. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  3. ^ "Save Venice Inc. | Dedicated to preserving the artistic heritage of Venice". Save Venice Inc. | Dedicated to preserving the artistic heritage of Venice. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  4. ^ "Award Winners - Renaissance Society of America". www.rsa.org. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  5. ^ Brown, Patricia Fortini. "FELLOWS - AFFILIATED FELLOWS - RESIDENTS 1990–2010". aarome.org. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  6. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Patricia Fortini Brown". Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  7. ^ "Professorships | Dean of the Faculty". dof.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  8. ^ "Soci stranieri". Ateneo Veneto. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  9. ^ "Reed College | Art | Events | Ostrow | Patricia Fortini Brown". www.reed.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  10. ^ "Serena Medal". The British Academy. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  11. ^ "Retired Princeton University art scholar to give inaugural Edward J. Olszewski Lecture in Italian Art, Oct. 8". The Daily. 2014-09-29. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  12. ^ "The Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award - Renaissance Society of America". www.rsa.org. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  13. ^ Brown, Patricia Fortini (1988). Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-04743-1.
  14. ^ Brown, Patricia Fortini (1996). Venice & antiquity: the Venetian sense of the past. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-06700-2.
  15. ^ "The Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize - Renaissance Society of America". www.rsa.org. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  16. ^ Brown, Patricia Fortini (2005). Art and Life in Renaissance Venice. Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-134402-0.
  17. ^ Brown, Patricia Fortini (2004). Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10236-9.
  18. ^ Matino, Gabriele (15 June 2021). Carpaccio in Venice. Marsilio. ISBN 978-88-297-0781-2.
  19. ^ Matino, Gabriele (2020). Carpaccio a Venezia. Marsilio. ISBN 978-88-297-0772-0.
  20. ^ Brown, Patricia Fortini (2021). The Venetian Bride: Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and its Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192894571.
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