Rona Goffen

Rona Goffen
Born(1944-06-07)June 7, 1944
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
DiedSeptember 8, 2004(2004-09-08) (aged 60)
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationArt historian
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1984)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisIcon and Vision: the Half-length Madonnas of Giovanni Bellini (1974)
Academic work
DisciplineArt history
Sub-disciplineItalian renaissance art
Institutions

Rona Goffen (June 7, 1944 – September 8, 2004) was an American art historian who specialized in Italian Renaissance art. A professor at Princeton University, Duke University, Rutgers University, she published several books – including Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice (1986), Spirituality in Conflict (1988), Giovanni Bellini (1994), Titian's Women (1997), and Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael (2002) – and was a 1986 Guggenheim Fellow.

Biography

Goffen was born on June 7, 1944, in Brooklyn,[1] daughter of Stella (née Friedman) and lawyer William Goffen.[2] She obtained a BA from Mount Holyoke College in 1966 and an MA from Columbia University in 1968.[3] After spending two years as an art lecturer at Indiana University Bloomington,[2] she moved to Princeton University in 1973 under the same position and returned to Columbia to get a PhD in 1974;[3] her doctoral dissertation was Icon and Vision: the Half-length Madonnas of Giovanni Bellini.[4]

After being promoted from lecturer to assistant professor in 1974, Goffen moved from Princeton to Duke University in 1978, before being promoted to associate professor in 1980 and full professor in 1986,[3] while also serving as chair of the Department of Art and Art History in 1983.[4] She later moved to Rutgers University, where she became a distinguished professor in 1988 and chaired the Department of Art History from 1990 until 1996.[2] She left Rutgers in 2004.[4]

Goffen's field was in the art of the Italian renaissance, and she often gave focus to the socioeconomic background of the Renaissance art scene.[4][1] She published several books such as Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice (1986), Spirituality in Conflict: Saint Francis and Giotto’s Bardi Chapel (1988, focused on the Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari), Giovanni Bellini (1994), Titian’s Women (1997), and Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael (2002).[4] She also edited Life and Death in Fifteenth-century Florence (1989, with Marcel Tetel and Ronald G. Witt), Titian’s "Venus of Urbino" (1997), and Masaccio's Trinity (1998).[4] She was also working on two more books before her death: Renaissance Women: Art and Life in Italy, 1300-1600 and Fathers of Invention: The Last Judgment: From Giotto to Michelangelo.[4] She also was a co-editor for Renaissance Quarterly.[4]

Goffen was a 1970 Committee to Rescue Italian Art Fellow, 1976-1977 American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, 1976-1977 Villa I Tatti Fellow, and a 1986-1987 National Humanities Center Fellow.[4] In 1986, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of Giovanni Bellini and the Renaissance in Venice".[3] In addition to a 1980 visiting professorship at Barnard College, she was the 1997 Robert Sterling Clark Visiting professor of Art History at Williams College.[4] She was part of the Renaissance Society of America board of directors from 1988 to 1994, as well as the National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts' advisory board in 1997.[4]

Goffen died of ovarian cancer on September 8, 2004, in her hometown Princeton, New Jersey; she was aged 60.[1] In 2005, Gabriele Neher said that "Goffen's prolific publishing record has established her as a key Italian Renaissance art historian in the twentieth century".[5]

Bibliography

  • Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice (1986)[a]
  • Spirituality in Conflict (1988)[b]
  • Giovanni Bellini (1994)[c]
  • Titian's Women (1997)[d]
  • Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael (2002)[e]

Notes

  1. ^ Reviews of this book:[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
  2. ^ Reviews of this book:[13][14]
  3. ^ Reviews of this book:[15][16]
  4. ^ Reviews of this book:[17][18][19][20]
  5. ^ Reviews of this book:[21][22][23][24]

References

  1. ^ a b c Smith, Roberta (September 19, 2004). "Rona Goffen, 60, Art Historian and Teacher". The New York Times. p. 1.44. ProQuest 432861664.
  2. ^ a b c "Goffen, Rona 1944-2004". Encyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on February 23, 2025. Retrieved September 1, 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1986. p. 40.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Goffen, Rona". Dictionary of Art Historians. Archived from the original on November 27, 2024. Retrieved September 1, 2025.
  5. ^ Neher, Gabriele (February 2005). "A Legacy in Literature: Rona Goffen (1944–2004)". The Art Book. 12 (1): 48–48. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8357.2005.511_2.x. ISSN 1368-6267.
  6. ^ Geiger, Gail L. (1987). "Review of Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans". The American Historical Review. 92 (4): 991–992. doi:10.2307/1864048. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 1864048.
  7. ^ Hope, Charles (1989). "Review of Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans". The English Historical Review. 104 (411): 471–472. ISSN 0013-8266. JSTOR 571790.
  8. ^ Humfrey, Peter (1987). "Review of PIETY AND PATRONAGE IN RENAISSANCE VENICE: BELLINI, TITIAN AND THE FRANCISCANS". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 135 (5370): 465–466. ISSN 0035-9114. JSTOR 41374330.
  9. ^ Kohl, Benjamin G. (1987). "Review of Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice, Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 18 (2): 268–268. doi:10.2307/2541183. ISSN 0361-0160. JSTOR 2541183.
  10. ^ Muir, Edward (1987). "Review of Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans". Renaissance Quarterly. 40 (2): 331–334. doi:10.2307/2861725. ISSN 0034-4338. JSTOR 2861725.
  11. ^ Rosenberg, Charles M. (1988). "Review of Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans". Italica. 65 (3): 270–274. doi:10.2307/478579. ISSN 0021-3020. JSTOR 478579.
  12. ^ Sohm, Philip (1988). "Review of Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice. Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans". Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme. 12 (2): 143–146. ISSN 0034-429X. JSTOR 43444717.
  13. ^ Cook, William R. (1990). "Review of Spirituality in Conflict: Saint Francis and Giotto's Bardi Chapel". The American Historical Review. 95 (4): 1179–1179. doi:10.2307/2163536. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 2163536.
  14. ^ Ladis, Andrew (1992). "Review of Spirituality in Conflict: Saint Francis and Giotto's Bardi Chapel". Renaissance Quarterly. 45 (2): 370–373. doi:10.2307/2862761. ISSN 0034-4338. JSTOR 2862761.
  15. ^ Fletcher, Jennifer (1991). "Review of Giovanni Bellini". The Burlington Magazine. 133 (1064): 777–780. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 884827.
  16. ^ Humfrey, Peter (2008). "Review of Giovanni Bellini". The Burlington Magazine. 150 (1267): 698–698. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 40479917.
  17. ^ Neher, Gabriele (1998). "Review of Titian's Women". The Burlington Magazine. 140 (1145): 563–564. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 887986.
  18. ^ Partridge, Loren W. (1999). "Review of Titian's Women". Renaissance Quarterly. 52 (2): 521–522. doi:10.2307/2902075. ISSN 0034-4338. JSTOR 2902075.
  19. ^ Thomas, Anabel (1999). "Moving on from Joan Kelly Gadol". Oxford Art Journal. 22 (2): 144–153. ISSN 0142-6540. JSTOR 1360642.
  20. ^ Wiseman, Mary (2000). "Review of Titian's Women; Defining the Renaissance Virtuosa: Women Artists and the Language of Art History and Criticism". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 58 (4): 420–423. doi:10.2307/432191. ISSN 0021-8529. JSTOR 432191.
  21. ^ Bury, Michael (2003). "Review of Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian". The Burlington Magazine. 145 (1205): 589–589. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 20073172.
  22. ^ Gundersheimer, Werner (2003). "Duking It Out". The American Scholar. 72 (1): 140–144. ISSN 0003-0937. JSTOR 41221097.
  23. ^ Hall, Marcia (2004). "Review of Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian". Renaissance Quarterly. 57 (1): 200–201. ISSN 0034-4338. JSTOR 1262397.
  24. ^ Tauber, Christine (2004). "Review of Renaissance Rivals. Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian". Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte. 67 (3): 435–439. doi:10.2307/20474261. ISSN 0044-2992. JSTOR 20474261.
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