Janet Cox-Rearick
Distinguished Professor of 16th-Century Italian
and French Art; Renaissance Drawings

PhD, Harvard University, 1957

jcox-rearick@gc.cuny.edu
 

Professor Cox-Rearick has also held positions in museums at the Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings, 1956-57; Director, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College, 1959-61; and Lecturer, The Frick Collection, New York, 1957-59 & 1963-64), then in teaching (Wellesley College, 1953-54 & 1959-61; Hunter College, CUNY (1964-99); and GSUC (1989-date).  She curated La Collection de François Ier, Musée du Louvre, Paris (1972-73); and Giulio Romano Master Designer, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, CUNY (1999).  Her awards and fellowships since 1982 include The French Republic, Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1998); The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence (Visiting Professor, 1990-91); CASVA, The National Gallery (Paul Mellon Senior Fellow (1989-90); The Getty Center, Los Angeles (Getty Scholar, 1985-86); The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (Fellow, 1983); and The National Endowment for the Humanities (Senior Fellowship, 1982).  

Books:

The Collection of Francis I: Royal Treasures. Antwerp: Mercatorfonds, and New York: Abrams, 1995; French trans. as Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Renaissance: La Collection de François Ier. Antwerp: Mercatorfonds, 1995.

Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

An Important Painting by Pontormo from the Collection of Chauncey D. Stillman. sale catalogue for Pontormo, Portrait of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici; New York: Christie's, 1989.

Dynasty and Destiny in Medici Art: Pontormo, Leo X and the Two Cosimos. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.

The Drawings of Pontormo: A Catalogue Raisonné with Notes on the Paintings, 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.  Revised and expanded edition, 2 vols.  New York: Hacker Art Books, 1981.

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