Angela H. Rosenthal (12 September 1963-11 November 2010) was an
art historian at
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...
and an expert on the art of
Angelica Kauffman. Her masterwork was ''Angelica Kauffman: Art and sensibility'', published by Yale University Press in 2006 which won the Historians of British Art Book Award in the pre-1800 category in 2007.
Early life and family
Angela Rosenthal was born in
Trier
Trier ( , ; lb, Tréier ), formerly known in English as Trèves ( ;) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. It lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the ...
, Germany, to Peter and Anne Rosenthal. She had a sister,
Felicia Rosenthal, who also became a professor. Rosenthal attended the
University of Trier
The University of Trier (german: Universität Trier), in the German city of Trier, was founded in 1473. Closed in 1798 by order of the then French administration in Trier, the university was re-established in 1970 after a hiatus of some 172 y ...
. She married
Adrian Randolph, also an art historian and professor at Dartmouth College.
Career
Rosenthal taught at the
Staatsgalerie Saarbrucken and at
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world.
Charte ...
before joining Dartmouth College in 1997 where she was an associate professor of
art history
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...
. She edited a book of essays on
William Hogarth
William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like ...
and was an expert on the Austrian painter Angelica Kauffman about whom she produced several books, including her authoritative ''Angelica Kauffman: Art and sensibility'' that was published by
Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous.
, Yale Universi ...
in association with the
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art is a scholarly centre in London devoted to supporting original research into the history of British Art. It was founded in 1970 and endowed by a gift from Paul Mellon. Since 1996, it has been s ...
in 2006. In 2007, that book won the Historians of British Art Book Award in the pre-1800 category.
Rosenthal also had an interest in the visual depiction of race and humour. In 2013, a book that Rosenthal had been editing at the time of her death with
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz on slave portraits in the Atlantic world was published, and in 2015, an edited work on humour in the visual arts was completed by her husband Adrian Randolph and published by the Dartmouth College Press.
Death
Rosenthal died from cancer at Dartmouth on 11 November 2010.
Angela Rosenthal: In Memoriam.
David Bindman
David Bindman (born 1940) is emeritus Durning-Lawrence professor of the history of art at University College London and has been a research fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research (formerly W. E. B. Du Bois Research I ...
, College Art Association
The College Art Association of America (CAA) is the principal organization in the United States for professionals in the visual arts, from students to art historians to emeritus faculty. Founded in 1911, it "promotes these arts and their underst ...
, 4 January 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
Selected publications
*"Angelica Kauffman Ma(s)king Claims", ''Art History
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...
'', March 1992, Vol. 15, Issue 1, pp 38-59.
*"Kauffman and portraiture", in ''Angelica Kauffman: A continental Artist in Georgian England'', ed. by Wendy Wassyng Roworth. London, Reaktion Books, 1992. pp. 96-111.
*''Angelika Kauffmann: Bildnismalerei im 18. Jahrhundert''. Reimer, 1996. (German language)
*''The other Hogarth: Aesthetics of difference''. Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large.
The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financia ...
, Princeton, 2001. (Edited with Bernadette Fort)
*''Angelica Kauffman: Art and sensibility''. Yale University Press in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2006.
*''Angelica Kauffman in British collections: An exhibition to commemorate the 200th anniversary of her death/ith
The Ith () is a ridge in Germany's Central Uplands which is up to 439 m high. It lies about 40 km southwest of Hanover and, at 22 kilometres, is the longest line of crags in North Germany.
Geography
Location
The Ith is immediatel ...
an essay by Angela Rosenthal: Recollecting Kauffman.'' Rafael Valls, London, 2007.
*''Slave portraiture in the Atlantic world''. Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press in the world. It is also the King's Printer.
Cambridge University Pre ...
, Cambridge, 2013. (Edited with Agnes Lugo-Ortiz)
*''No laughing matter: Visual humor in ideas of race, nationality, and ethnicity''. Dartmouth College Press, Lebanon, New Hampshire, 2015. (Edited with David Bindman and Adrian W.B. Randolph)
See also
*Bettina Baumgärtel
Bettina Baumgärtel (born 1957) is a German art historian who is head of the painting collection of the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. She is a leading authority on the art of Angelica Kauffman and founded the Angelika Kauffmann Research Pro ...
References
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1963 births
2010 deaths
German art historians
People from Trier
Dartmouth College faculty
German women academics
Deaths from cancer in New Hampshire
University of Trier alumni
Angelica Kauffman
Northwestern University faculty
German women historians