Background
Eve Borsook was born on October 3, 1929, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the daughter of Henry and Lisl Hummel.
(In this work, Eve Borsook - best known for her extensive ...)
In this work, Eve Borsook - best known for her extensive work on fresco and mural painting - examines in detail the three great cycles of mosaic, focusing particularly on their arrangement and liturgical, even political significance.
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Eve Borsook was born on October 3, 1929, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the daughter of Henry and Lisl Hummel.
Eve received a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College, a Master of Arts from New York University, and a Ph.D. from Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Eve Borsook has taught as Visiting Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, and many other institutes in the United States, Florence, and Australia. But as Art historian Eve Borsook has devoted her professional life to the study of murals and mosaics from the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. Her publications include The Mural Painters of Tuscany, The Companion Guide to Florence, Francesco Sassetti and Ghirlandaio at Santa Trinita, Florence: history and legend in a Renaissance chapel, and Messages in Mosaic.
Borsook's first published book, The Mural Painters of Tuscany, from Cimabue to Andrea del Sarto, was a revision of her doctoral dissertation. This book was welcomed as a groundbreaking survey of mural painting and was revered as basically the sole comprehensive study on the subject until flooding in Florence in 1966 threatened to damage the city's artistic heritage and new interest arose in preserving mural art. Indeed, the restorations that took place after this flood enabled Borsook to conduct new observations and research that culminated in the book's extensive enlargement and revision in 1980.
Before and after The Mural Painters of Tuscany, Borsook worked with Leonetto Tintori between 1952 and 1982 on Giotto: The Peruzzi Chapel, a study of the murals in the Peruzzi Chapel in Florence's Santa Croce church. With her reputation by this time established as an expert in Florentine art, Borsook was next asked to write a new guidebook to the city.
In Messages in Mosaic: The Royal Programmes of Norman Sicily, 1130–1187, Borsook departed from the Renaissance and mural painting to consider the medieval mosaics at Cefalu, the Cappella Palatina at Palermo, and Monreale. These were created during the rule of the Norman kings in Sicily, and Borsook argues that the mosaic cycles were created "to legitimize and fortify a new monarchy" over the Papacy.
In addition to her own monographs, Borsook has served as editor for two collections of symposium papers. Tecnica e stile: esempi di pittura murale del Rinascimento italiano, edited with Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi, presents papers from a conference sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in May 1983. Contributors included art historians, curators, and fresco restoration professionals.
Borsook is also a contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals around the world, including Portfolio and Art News Annual, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Arte medievale, Studi Medievali, and Burlington.
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