Bette Talvacchia
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
PhD, Stanford University
bette.talvacchia@uconn.edu

Bette Talvacchia is Professor of Art History for the School of Fine Arts. She has received degrees from Bryn Mawr College, the University of Texas at Austin, and Stanford University, where she completed her Ph.D in the History of Art. She specializes in Italian Renaissance art, with an emphasis in gender studies.

Dr. Talvacchia has been a Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Center for Advanced Study for the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.; The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; in the Fulbright Program; and at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Research in Italian Renaissance Studies. She was recently the Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at I Tatti.

Her publications include articles and essays on Italian art and culture; a book published by Princeton University Press entitled Taking Positions: On the Erotic in Renaissance Culture; and articles on film. She has completed the volume on Raphael for the series Art and Idea, which will be published by Phaidon Press, London, in 2006.