Patricia Simons
Field of Expertise
 Renaissance and Baroque art, gender studies
Degree
 Ph.D., University of Melbourne
Associate Professor, History of Art and Program in Women's Studies. Scholarly interests include the art of Renaissance Italy with a special focus on the representation of gender and sexuality and interdisciplinary research on the construction of authority and identity.
Selected Publications
  • "Homosociality and Erotics in Italian Renaissance Portraiture" in Portraiture: Facing the Subject (1997)
  • "Alert and Erect: Masculinity in Some Italian Renaissance Portraits of Fathers and Sons" (1994)
  • "(Check)-Mating the Grand Masters: The Gendered, Sexualized Politics of Chess in Renaissance Italy" (1993)
  • "Women in Frames: The Gaze,the Eye, the Profile in Renaissance Portraiture" (1992)
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