
Education
M.A. University of California, Berkeley (1995)
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Art History (2001)
Areas of Expertise
Stefanie Solum received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. Her courses on Renaissance art take Italian social and political history as their foundation, and her specific teaching interests include the visual culture of Renaissance Rome; art and private life in Renaissance Florence; Michelangelo; and the role of artists’ biographies in art historical interpretation. All of these courses share the common goal of encouraging students to delve into the subject matter and to step outside of it, considering the ways in which the Renaissance period might inform their aesthetic perceptions and their understanding of the past. Her current book project examines on the literary and spiritual role of Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’ Medici, providing new evidence for female patronage of the arts in mid-fifteenth century Florence.
Courses
ARTH 231 / WGSS 231 TUT
Art, Life, and Death: Locating Women in Italian Renaissance Art (not offered 2022/23)ARTH 233 SEM
Italian Renaissance Art (not offered 2022/23)ARTH 330 TUT
Michelangelo: Biography, Mythology, and the History of Art (not offered 2022/23)ARTH 331 / WGSS 335 TUT
Michelangelo: Self and Sexuality (not offered 2022/23)ARTH 433 / ARTH 533 SEM
Michelangelo: Biography, Mythology, and the History of Art (not offered 2022/23)ARTH 434 SEM
Renaissance Time (not offered 2022/23)Current Committees
- Athletics Committee
Megamenu Social