Elizabeth Cropper

Elizabeth Cropper
Född	11 augusti 1944 (80 år) Dewsbury, Storbritannien
Medborgare i	Storbritannien
Utbildad vid	Bryn Mawr College Newnham College
Sysselsättning	Konsthistoriker
Arbetsgivare	Johns Hopkins University
Make	Charles Dempsey
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Elizabeth Cropper, född 11 augusti 1944 i Dewsbury, är en brittisk konsthistoriker och författare. Hon avlade 1972 doktorsexamen vid Bryn Mawr College med en avhandling om Pietro Testa. Hon är sedan 2000 dekanus för National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). Tidigare var hon professor vid Johns Hopkins University.

Bibliografi (urval)

• “On Beautiful Women, Parmigianino, Petrarchismo, and the Vernacular Style.” Art Bulletin, 58 (1976): 374–394.
• The Ideal of Painting: Pietro Testa's Düsseldorf Notebook. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
• “The Beauty of Woman: Problems in the Rhetoric of Renaissance Portraiture.” In Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe, edited by Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, and Nancy Vickers, 175-190. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1986.
• Pietro Testa: 1612‑1650. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1988. Exhibition catalog.
• “New Documents for Artemisia Gentileschi's Life in Florence.” The Burlington Magazine, 136 (1993): 760–762.
• “The Place of Beauty in the High Renaissance and its Displacement in the History of Art.” In Place and Displacement in the Renaissance, edited by A. Vos, 159-205. Binghamton, NY: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1995.
• — and Charles Dempsey. Nicolas Poussin: Friendship and the Love of Painting. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
• Pontormo: Portrait of a Halberdier. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997.
• “Vivere sul filo del rasoio: Artemisia Gentileschi, pittrice famosa.” In Orazio e Artemisia Gentileschi, edited by Keith Christiansen and Judith W. Mann, 262–281. Milano: Skira editore, 2001.
• “Life on the Edge: Artemisia Gentileschi, Famous Woman Painter.” In Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, edited by Keith Christiansen and Judith W. Mann, 262–281. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. Exhibition catalog.
• “Pontormo and Bronzino: A Double Portrait.” In Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait, edited by Carl Brandon Strehlke, 1–34. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Penn State University Press, 2004. Exhibition catalog.
• The Domenichino Affair: Novelty, Imitation, and Theft in Seventeenth-Century Rome. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005.
• “Reading Bronzino’s Florentine Portraits.” In Bronzino: Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici/Bronzino. Pittore e poeta alla corte dei Medici, edited by Carlo Falciani and Antonio Natali, 245-255. Florence: Palazzo Strozzi, 2010. Exhibition catalog.
• “The Fortuna critica of Agnolo Bronzino.” In Bronzino: Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici/Bronzino. Pittore e poeta alla corte dei Medici, edited by Carlo Falciani and Antonio Natali, 23-33. Florence: Palazzo Strozzi, 2010. Exhibition catalog.
• —, ed. Carlo Cesare Malvasia's Felsina pittrice (1678): Lives of the Bolognese Painters.  A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation. Vol. 1, Early Bolognese Painting. Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2012.
• —, ed. Carlo Cesare Malvasia's Felsina pittrice (1678): Lives of the Bolognese Painters. A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation. Vol. 13, Lives of Domenichino and Francesco Gessi. Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2013.
• “I ritratti del Pontormo e del Rosso Fiorentino.” In Pontormo e Rosso Fiorentino: Divergenti vie della 'maniera, edited by Carlo Falciani and Antonio Natali, 119-125. Florence: Mandragora, 2014. (English edition: Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino: Diverging Paths of Mannerism. Florence: Mandragora, 2014.)
• —, ed. Carlo Cesare Malvasia’s Felsina pittrice (1678): Lives of the Bolognese Painters.  A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation. Vol. 2, part 2, Life of Marcantonio Raimondi and Critical Catalogue of Prints by or after Bolognese Masters. Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2017.
• La Pintura Boloñesa en el Museo del Prado: tras las huellas de Malvasia como crítico de la pintura. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado and Abada Editores, S.L, 2017.
• —, ed. Carlo Cesare Malvasia’s Felsina pittrice (1678): Lives of the Bolognese Painters. A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation. Vol. 9, Life of Guido Reni. Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2019.

Källor

• ”National Gallery of Art Names Elizabeth Cropper as Dean of Center for Advance Study in the Visual Arts as Center Begins Third Decade of Programs for Scholars”. National Gallery of Art. 29 juli 2000. https://www.nga.gov/press/archive/casva.html. Läst 21 mars 2023.