The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander with Jacqueline Musacchio
On this special episode of Historians & Their Histories, guest host Megan Kate Nelson interviews art historian Jacqueline Musacchio. Prof. Musacchio discusses her latest publication on the community of female artists living in nineteenth-century Italy, notably Francesca Alexander. We learn about Alexander's experience as an American artist living abroad during a period of rapid change. Prof. Musacchio also discusses the challenges of working in the field of art history today.
Prof. Musacchio is also the recipient of an Andrew Oliver Research Fellowship from the MHS.
To learn more about MHS fellowships and how to apply, please visit this page.
Host:
Megan Kate Nelson, Ph.D. is a historian and writer, an MHS Fellow, and a member of the Boston Environmental History Seminar steering committee. She is the author of four books, including Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America (Scribner 2022; winner of the 2023 Spur Award for Historical Non-Fiction) and The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West (Scribner 2020; 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist in History).
Episode Special Guest:
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio is Professor of Art at Wellesley College, where she teaches Italian Renaissance and Baroque art. Her previous publications include the books The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy (1999) and Art, Marriage, and Family in the Florentine Renaissance Palace (2008), as well as numerous articles and essays on the Anglo-American population of Italy.
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