American art historian
Marcia Hall (born 1939), who usually publishes asMarcia B. Hall , is an American art historian, who is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Renaissance Art at theTyler School of Art and Architecture ofTemple University inPhiladelphia . Hall's scholarship has concentrated onItalian Renaissance painting , mostly of the sixteenth century, and especiallyRaphael andMichelangelo .[ 1]
Marcia Brown was born inWashington, D.C. in 1939 to Charles Edward Brown (1894–1949), a business executive, and Frances Peebles (later Ocheltree) (1901–1991).[ 2]
She attendedWellesley College , graduating in 1960.[ 1] [ 2] Radcliffe College in 1962 and won aFulbright Fellowship in 1963 to research her dissertation on the renovations in the late 16th century toSanta Maria Novella andSanta Croce , supervised bySydney Joseph Freedberg atHarvard University .[ 2] rood screen in both churches once removed byGiorgio Vasari during theCounter-Reformation .[ 3] [ 4] [ 1] [ 2]
Her visiting fellowships include theInstitute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1987–1988), and twice atI Tatti , Florence.[ 1]
1979.Renovation and Counter-Reformation: Vasari and Duke Cosimo in Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce, 1565–77 . New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 1990.After Raphael: Painting in Central Italy in the Sixteenth Century . Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-48245-3 1992.Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting . Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.[ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] 2002.Michelangelo. The Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel . New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams.[ 9] 2005.The Cambridge Companion to Raphael (ed.) Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.[ 10] 2011.The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio . London and New York: Yale University Press.[ 11] [ 12] 2019.The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting . New Haven: Yale University Press.[ 13] ^a b c d "Marcia Hall, PhD" .Tyler School of Art . Temple University. 27 March 2013. Retrieved11 August 2021 .^a b c d Sorensen, Lee, ed."Hall, Marcia B." ,Dictionary of Art Historians . 11 August 2021. ^ Hall, Marcia B. (1974)."The Tramezzo in Santa Croce, Florence, Reconstructed" The Art Bulletin .56 (3):325– 341.doi :10.2307/3049260 .ISSN 0004-3079 .JSTOR 3049260 . ^ Hall, Marcia B. (1974)."The Ponte in S. Maria Novella: The Problem of the Rood Screen in Italy" Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes .37 :157– 173.doi :10.2307/750838 .ISSN 0075-4390 .JSTOR 750838 .S2CID 195009392 . ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting by Marcia B. Hall, Author Cambridge University Press $70 (288p) ISBN 978-0-521-39222-8" .PublishersWeekly.com . Retrieved11 August 2021 .^ Hills, Paul (1995)."Marcia B. Hall. Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 48 col. pls. + 83 b&w pls. + xiii + 273 pp. $60" Renaissance Quarterly .48 (1):190– 192.doi :10.2307/2863351 .ISSN 0034-4338 .JSTOR 2863351 .S2CID 163190316 . ^ Gill, Meredith J. (1992)."Review of Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting" .Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme .16 (4):83– 85.ISSN 0034-429X .JSTOR 43444866 . ^ Stahl, Louise Z. (1993)."Color and meaning: Practice and theory in renaissance painting, by Marcia Hall, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, 1991, 288 pp., $60" Color Research & Application .18 (4): 288.doi :10.1002/col.5080180412 .ISSN 1520-6378 . ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Michelangelo: The Frescoes of Sistine Chapel by Marcia B. Hall, Author, Takashi Okamura, Photographer ABRAMS $39.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3530-3" .PublishersWeekly.com . Retrieved11 August 2021 .^ The Cambridge Companion to Raphael scholar.google.com . Retrieved 2022-12-27.^ Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (2012)."Marcia B. Hall. The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. x + 310 pp. $75. ISBN: 978–0–300–16967–6" Renaissance Quarterly .65 (3):885– 886.doi :10.1086/668316 .ISSN 0034-4338 . ^ Arnold, Jeremy W. H. (2012)."The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio – By Marcia B. Hall" Religious Studies Review .38 (1): 14.doi :10.1111/j.1748-0922.2011.01576_1.x .ISSN 1748-0922 . ^ Mansfield, Elizabeth C. (2021)."The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting by Marcia B. Hall (review)" Eighteenth-Century Studies .54 (2):486– 489.doi :10.1353/ecs.2021.0020 .ISSN 1086-315X .S2CID 234200058 .
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