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Professor Jacqueline Musacchio is a faculty member in the Department of Art at Wellesley College, specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art. She is a specialist in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, with a focus on material culture's role in Renaissance life, including objects like sculpted portrait busts, domestic devotional images, and embroidered veils.
Education:
- B.A., Wellesley College
- M.A., Princeton University
- Ph.D., Princeton University
Her research spans topics such as the cultural reception of the Renaissance in the United States, the intersection of art and gender roles, and the symbolic use of material objects in Renaissance Italy. She authored two books: The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy (1999) and Art, Marriage, and Family in the Florentine Renaissance Palace (2008). Currently, she is investigating Bianca Cappello’s failed attempts to enhance her reputation through art in Tuscany. She has contributed to exhibitions like Art and Love in Renaissance Italy (2008–2009) as a curator or catalog author.
Her teaching includes Italian art and life from 1260 to 1800, contextualized within events like the rise of mendicant orders and the Black Death. She also participates in Wellesley’s team-taught introductory survey course, which traces the history of art from prehistory to the present. Outside academia, she collects paint-by-numbers artworks at flea markets with her husband.
