(This book retraces the development of classical imagery i...)
This book retraces the development of classical imagery in the visual arts of the Italian Renaissance. Luba Freedman examines poems, letters, and treatises on art, which testify to the contemporary desire to depict classical myths in the style and spirit of Ovid's Metamorphoses, and to re-create the artistic patronage of the ancient Romans.
Luba Freedman is an Israeli writer and educator, researcher into Italian Art of the 15th and 16th centuries in Florence, Rome, Venice, Parma and Correggio.
Background
Luba Freedman was born in Moscow, Russian Federation (previously the territory of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), on October 8, 1953. She has become a naturalized citizen of Israel since 1972. Mrs. Freedman is a daughter of Yaakov, an engineer, and Ella, a medical physician, (Leizerovskaia) Shapiro. Since 1972 she lives in Jerusalem, Israel, and never visited Moscow.
Education
Luba Freedman finished The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, obtaining Bachelor of Arts in 1977, Master of Arts (cum laude) in 1981 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1984.
Dr. Freedman worked at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as a teaching instructor from 1985 to 1986. Between 1987 and 1989 she served as a teaching fellow and starting from 1992 as a lecturer in art history at the same university. In 1990-1992 Dr. Freedman was appointed visiting scholar in Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. In 1992 she received a tenure-track position in her alma mater and has worked there since then continuously, serving now as Jack Cotton Professor of Architecture and Fine Arts, with emphasis in teaching and research on Italian Renaissance painting and sculpture.
Luba Freedman is known to be a contributor to periodicals in Israel, Italy, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the latter include Explorations in Renaissance Culture, Literature and the Arts, Notes in the History of Art, Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.
Luba Freedman is known to be a member of the Renaissance Society of America, the Sixteenth-Century Studies Society, the Society for Studies in Venetian History, the Italian Art Society, Institut fuer die Erforchung der Fruehen Neuzeit.
Connections
Luba Freedman married in 1974. She divorced in 1989. Mrs. Freedman has two children: Yitzhak, Dina.