Wendy Wassyng Roworth

Wendy Wassyng Roworth is professor emerita of art history at the University of Rhode Island.[1] Roworth is a specialist in eighteenth century British and Italian art and the art of Angelica Kauffman.

Roworth curated the exhibition "Angelica Kauffman: A continental artist in Georgian England" which was held at the Royal Pavilion Art Gallery & Museums, Brighton in 1992 and also in York. She edited the accompanying book.[2]

Roworth has held fellowships with the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a scholar in residence at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington D.C.

Selected publications
  • Angelica Kauffman: A continental Artist in Georgian England. Reaktion Books, London, 1992. (Editor) ISBN 0948462418
  • "Anatomy is destiny: Regarding the body in the art of Angelica Kauffman", in Femininity and masculinity in eighteenth-century art and culture. Edited by Gillian Perry & Michael Rossington. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1994. ISBN 9780719042287
  • "Painting for profit and pleasure: Angelica Kauffman and the art business in Rome", Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 29, Number 2, Winter 1995-96. pp. 225–228.[3]
  • "Documenting Angelica Kauffman's life and art", Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 37, Number 3, Spring 2004, pp. 478–482.[4]
  • "Pulling Parrhasius's curtain: Trickery and fakery in the Roman art world" in Richard Wrigley (ed.) Regarding romantic Rome, Peter Lang, 2007.
  • Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and culture in the age of the Grand Tour. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2009. (Edited by Paula Findlen and Catherine M. Sama) ISBN 9780804759045[5]
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See also

References
  1. "Wendy Wassyng Roworth | department of art & art history". web.uri.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  2. "Foreword" by Jessica Rutherford in Wendy Wassyng Roworth (Ed.) (1992) Angelica Kauffman: A continental artist in Georgian England. London: Reaktion Books. p. 7. ISBN 0948462418
  3. Painting for Profit and Pleasure: Angelica Kauffman and the Art Business in Rome. Wendy Wassyng Roworth. Project Muse. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  4. Documenting Angelica Kauffman's Life and Art. Wendy Wassyng Roworth. Project Muse. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  5. Dr Melissa Calaresu, Review of Italy’s Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour. Retrieved 14 February 2016.


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