Renaissance Studies

Biographical notes

Jennifer H. Finkel (Volume editor) Michael D. Morford (Volume editor) Dena M. Woodall (Volume editor)

Michael D. Morford is Assistant Professor of Art History at The City University of New York – Borough of Manhattan Community College. Morford specializes in painting and sculpture of the Italian Renaissance, especially Mannerist art and artists. He completed a dissertation entitled Carving for a future: Baccio Bandinelli securing Medici patronage through his mutually fulfilling propagandistic «Hercules and Cacus.» Morford was awarded his PhD in Art History in 2009 from Case Western Reserve University. He has recently presented research on the study of dreams and their influence on Mannerism, and has published catalogue entries and biographies in Drawings in Midwestern Collections. II. 1500-1600, Ed. by Edward Olszewski, Brepols Press (Belgium), 2008. Jennifer H. Finkel is Curator of contemporary art at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, where she oversees art installations at the main Cleveland campus as well as community hospitals and family health centers in Ohio and Florida. She wrote her dissertation, Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The «Tragedy» of the Façade, on the sculptural program for the façade and was awarded her PhD in Art History in 2005 from Case Western Reserve University. Publications include: Contemporary Art in Medicine: The Cleveland Clinic Art Collection (Cardiovascular Diagnosis Therapy, Sept 2011); as well as catalogue entries in Edward J. Olszewski’s co-edited Drawings in Midwestern Collection, II. 1500–1600, Brepols Press (Belgium), 2008. Dena M. Woodall is Assistant Curator of Prints & Drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Specializing in Renaissance and Baroque art, she wrote her dissertation on Sharing Space: Double Portraiture in Renaissance Italy and was awarded a PhD in Art History in 2008 from Case Western Reserve University. Her publications and exhibitions include Princes and Paupers: The Art of Jacques Callot (2013), The Art of Exaggeration (2012), Acid on Metal: The Art of Etching and Aquatint (2011), and Drawing from Nature: Landscapes by Liebermann, Corinth, and Slevogt (2010).