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 .[ 1]
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).[ 2]
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 .[ 3] [ 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.[ 2]
Her visiting fellowships include the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1987–1988), and twice at I Tatti , Florence.[ 1]
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.[ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8]
2002. Michelangelo. The Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel . New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams.[ 9]
2005. The Cambridge Companion to Raphael (ed.) Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.[ 10]
2011. The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio . London and New York: Yale University Press.[ 11] [ 12]
2019. The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting . New Haven: Yale University Press.[ 13]
^ a b c d "Marcia Hall, PhD" . Tyler School of Art . Temple University. 27 March 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2021 .
^ a b c 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 .
^ "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 .
^ "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 .
^ 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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