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Faculty » Jeanette Kohl
Head of the effigy of King Henry VII (X-Ray)
Pietro Torrigiani, 1509
Westminster Abbey, Museum
Great Britain
Assistant Professor
225 Arts Buildling
Phone: (951) 827-5919
E-mail: jkohl@ucr.edu
Areas of specialization: Renaissance art and architecture, tomb sculpture and memorial strategies, modern and contemporary architecture.
From 2004-2008 Jeanette Kohl was an Assistant Professor of Art history at the University of Leipzig/Germany. She earned her PhD from the University of Trier/Germany, and was a Postdoctoral fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence from 2001-2004. Since 2006, she is head of the international academic network "The Power of Faces. The Bust, the Head, and the Body in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance," www.macht-des-gesichts.de.
Her research focuses on image concepts and strategies of representation in the
Italian Renaissance with a particular interest in sculpted portraiture. She is the author of a book on Bartolomeo Colleoni's burial chapel (Fama und Virtus, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2004), and co-editor of two other books (Re-Visionen. Zur Aktualität von Kunstgeschichte, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002 and Kopf/Bild. Die Büste in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Berlin/Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2007). Currently, she is writing a book on Italian fifteenth century bust portraits.