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Marjorie Och

Photo - Marjorie Och Marjorie Och, Associate Professor of Art History, has taught at the University of Mary Washington since 1994. She holds a B.A. from Towson University, an M.A. in Art History from the University of Delaware, and a Ph.D. in History of Art from Bryn Mawr College. Her teaching interests include Donatello, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Bernini, early modern women artists, the city of Rome, and the comparative study of Venice, Florence, and Rome. Och teaches survey of Western art, Renaissance art, Baroque art, and various seminars.

Recent Publications & Presentations

Articles & Essays

  • "Portrait Medals of Vittoria Colonna: Representing the Learned Woman," in Women as Sites of Culture: Women's Roles in Cultural Formation from the Renaissance to the 20th Century , ed. Susan Shifrin, pp. 153-66. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2002.
  • "Vittoria Colonna and the Commission for a Mary Magdalen by Titian," in Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons in Renaissance Italy , eds. S. Reiss and D. Wilkins, pp. 193-223. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2001.
  • "Fine Arts: Overview," Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women's Studies , eds. Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender, New York: Routledge, 2000.
  • With Norman Land. Contributions to The Samuel H. Kress Study Collection at the University of Missouri , Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1999. Articles on the late 15th c. School of Verona Madonna and Child and Man of Sorrows ; Il Bramantino's Madonna and Child of ca. 1520; and Giuseppe Bazzani's A Laughing Man of ca. 1735.

Reviews

  • Diane Wolfthal, Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and its Alternatives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999): CAA Reviews (www.caareviews.org), 2003.
  • Deborah Howard, Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture, 1100-1500 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000); The Sixteenth Century Journal 33/3: 935-37, 2002.
  • Mary Rogers, ed., Fashioning Identities in Renaissance Art , introduction by Joanna Woods-Marsden (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000); The Sixteenth Century Journal 32/3: 786-88, 2001.

Papers Presented

  • "The Place of Cities in Vasari's Lives ." Southeast Central Arts Conference, Mobile, AL. Session: "The Renaissance and the Language of Space," 2002.
  • "A Colonna Project for the Quirinal Hill, Rome." Mediterranean Studies Association, Aix-en-Provence, France. Session: "The Colonna and the Orsini: Forging Familial Identities in Renaissance Rome," 2001.
  • "Nancy Spero: A Language of Rebirth." Forum on Nany Spero and Her Work, Mary Washington College, 2000.
  • "Artists' Travels Remembered, Imagined, and Recounted in Vasari's Vite ." Renaissance Society of America, Florence, Italy. Session: "Among Strangers: Italian Expatriate Artists in the Renaissance," 2000.

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