Marjorie Och
Associate Professor
Department of Art and Art History
University of Mary Washington
United States of America
Biography
Marjorie Och, Professor of Art History, has taught at Mary Washington since 1994. Her research focuses on the patronage of art by women in early modern Italy; the role of cities in Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists (1550, 1568); aligning technology with art history pedagogies; the intersection of conservation and art history; contemporary art; and the collecting and exhibition of art. Professor Och teaches courses in Renaissance and Baroque art history; seminars on the city of Venice, Michelangelo, Bernini, and women and Western art; museum studies; and the department’s survey courses on Western art. She directs two study abroad programs, one to Venice and Croatia (co-directed with Professor Houghtalin of Classics; http://venicecroatia.umwblogs.org/), the other to London. Website: http://maoch.org/
Research Interest
Survey of Western Art · Women & Western Art · Renaissance Art · Baroque Art
Publications
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Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, Violence and Virtue: Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Judith Slaying Holofernes’ (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013; Art Institute of Chicago, October 17, 2013-January 9, 2014), catalogue and exhibition review, Woman’s Art Journal 35/2 (fall/winter 2014): 63-64.
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“Michelangelo’s David-Apollo, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., December 13, 2012 – March 7, 2013,†exhibition review, SECAC Review 16/4 (2014): 511-14.
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“Venice and the Perfection of the Arts,†in The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari, ed. David Cast. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2014.
