Background
Gisolfi, Diana was born on September 12, 1940 in New York City. Daughter of Anthony M. and Eleanor (Hayes) Gisolfi.
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The Rule, the Bible, and the Council focuses on the decoration of a Benedictine library conceived and executed within a few years of the conclusion of the Council of Trent. The Abbey at Praglia, near Padua, commissioned work from Paolo Veronese and Tintoretto as well as Battista Zelotti. The authors reconstruct the 16th-century library room using physical, on-site evidence, extant documents concerning the furnishings, measurements of the paintings, and early descriptions to re-create with computer technology the room furnished and decorated in 1562 -- ca. 1570. Zelotti's 24 paintings on canvas for the Library at Praglia show a sensitive and clear articulation of the doctrinal intent planned by the erudite Benedictine patrons.
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academic administrator art history educator
Gisolfi, Diana was born on September 12, 1940 in New York City. Daughter of Anthony M. and Eleanor (Hayes) Gisolfi.
Student, Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York, 1960. Bachelor magna cum laude, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1962. Postgraduate, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1963.
Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1976.
Instructor City University of New York, 1967-1968, Marymount Manhattan College, New York City, 1977-1979. Assistant professor art history Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1979-1984, associate professor, 1984-1990, professor, since 1990, chairman department, 1981—1999. Organizer, speaker Marciana Library., Renaissance Society, Venice, 2010.
Visiting assistant professor Pratt Institute, 1976-1979. Director Pratt in Venice, Italy, since 1984. Speaker Convention on Veronese, Venice, 1988, Convention on Tintoretto, Venice, 1994, Symposium on Veronese Frick Collection, 2006, Symposium on Italian Art in American, Fordham University, 1993, Massachusetts College Art, 1998, AM Berger lecture, Manhattanville College, 2001.
Invited participant Veronese Reconsidered, The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, 1988, Two Symposia on Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Boston Museum Fine Arts, 2007, 09. Invited speaker College Art. Association 1990, 93, 95, 2002, 07, 10, College Art Association, 2010, Veneto Fresco Technology, Science & Art Symposium, Pratl, 2009, discussant session Benedictine patronage, Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2003.
Invited speaker Medieval Conference Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2004. Chairman two Renaissance Art sessions, Renaissance Society Meeting, New York City, 2004. Chair session Alterations in Italian Art and Art by Italian Women, Italian Art Society, College Art Association, 2006, 08.
Invited speaker on north Italian variations on antiquity Renaissance Society of America Meeting, Miami, 2007, session chair Life of St. Benedict. Invited Palladlio and Veronese lecturer Institute Classical Architecture, 2007.
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Coord. Park Slope Freeze, Brooklyn, 1984-1986, Peace and Justice Committee, St. Francis Xavier, 1984-1986. Member College Art Association, Caucus for Design History, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Philip Pechukas, June 15, 1963 (divorced September 1991). Children: Rolf, Maria, Sarah, Fiona (deceased), Amy.