Suzanne Boorsch is an American art historian, who specializes in

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD ...

old master prints, as well as the art of

Giorgio Ghisi Giorgio Ghisi (1520 — 15 December 1582) was an Italian engraver from Mantua who also worked in Antwerp and in France. He made both prints and damascened metalwork, although only two surviving examples of the latter are known. Life He was ...

Andrea Mantegna Andrea Mantegna (, , ; September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in orde ...

, and

Francesco Vanni Francesco Vanni (1563 – 26 October 1610) was an Italian painter, draughtsman, printmaker, publisher and printer active in Rome and his native city of Siena.

. Boorsch is the Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings at the

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

Art Gallery.

Career

Born to Jean Boorsch, Professor Emeritus of French Language at

, and Louise Totten, Boorsch received a

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four year ...

from Smith College in 1958. She then continued on to receive a

Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Th ...

in 1974 and a

Master of Philosophy The Master of Philosophy (MPhil; Latin ' or ') is a postgraduate degree. In the United States, an MPhil typically includes a taught portion and a significant research portion, during which a thesis project is conducted under supervision. An MPhil ...

in 1977, both from New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Boorsch began her career as Assistant Curator of Prints and Photographs at the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

. Boorsch was named the Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery.

Works

*''The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi'', 1985, *''Andrea Mantegna'', 1992, *''The French Renaissance in Prints'', 1994, *''Venetian Prints and Books in the Age of Tiepolo'', 1997, *''Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery'', 2006,

References

External links

Yale University profile
Living people American people of French descent Smith College alumni New York University Institute of Fine Arts alumni American art curators American women curators American art historians Women art historians People associated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art Yale University people 1937 births 21st-century American women {{US-art-historian-stub