Renata Holod

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Professor, Department of the History of Art

215-898-8714

301 Jaffe Building

Museum Experience: “From the Two Pens Line & Color in Islamic Art” guest curator at Williams College Museum of Art, October-December 2002; “Line & Letter: Studying a 16th Century Shirazi Manuscript” exhibition at Rare Book Gallery, Van Pelt Library, March-May 2005

Education

Ph.D. (1972) Harvard University

Research Interests

Archeological and archival survey of the Island of Jerba, Tunisia; Vision & gaze in the study of the visual culture of Islamic civilization: Long term inquiry into the history of art and optics

Courses Taught

Introduction to the Visual Culture of the Islamic World; Islamic City: City & Its Building Ensembles