{{Short description|American art historian}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox academic | name = Bette Talvacchia | birth_name = Bette Lou Talvacchia | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1951}} | birth_place = [[United States]] | occupation = [[Art historian]]<br />[[Educator]] | alma_mater = [[University of Texas at Austin]]<br />[[Stanford University]] | thesis_title = Giulio Romano's Sala di Troia: A Synthesis of Epic Narrative and Emblematic Imagery | thesis_url = https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1026030 | thesis_year = 1981 | doctoral_advisor = Kurt Forster | workplaces = [[University of Connecticut]]<br />[[University of Oklahoma]] | discipline = [[Art history]] | sub_discipline = [[Renaissance art]] }}
'''Bette Lou Talvacchia''' (born 1951) is an American [[art historian]] and [[educator]]. Talvacchia is the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Art History Emeritus at the [[University of Connecticut]].
==Career== Talvacchia earned a [[Master of Arts]] in [[art history]] from the [[University of Texas at Austin]] in 1975. There, she wrote a thesis on the [[Italy|Italian]] [[Futurist]] artists [[Giacomo Balla]] and [[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Marinetti, Balla, futurism / Bette Lou Talvacchia|website=lib.utexas.edu|url=https://search.lib.utexas.edu/permalink/01UTAU_INST/be14ds/alma991055480379706011}}</ref> Talvacchia then continued on to [[Stanford University]] to receive a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] in Art History in 1981.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nyss.org/lecture/bette-talvacchia-the-striking-case-of-the-two-michelangelos/ | title=Bette Talvacchia: The Striking Case of the Two Michelangelos }}</ref> Her doctoral dissertation was on the work of [[Giulio Romano]] from the [[Ducal Palace, Mantua|Ducal Palace]] in [[Mantua]], under the supervision of Professor Kurt Forster.<ref>{{cite thesis | url=https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1026030 | title=Giulio Romano's Sala di Troia: A synthesis of epic narrative and emblematic imagery | year=1981 | last1=Talvacchia | first1=Bette L. }}</ref>
A scholar of [[Renaissance art]], Talvacchia has taught at the [[University of Connecticut]] since graduating from Stanford.<ref>[https://magazine.uconn.edu/content/uploads/2017/11/UConnTraditions_Spring2002.pdf UConn Tradition Spring 2002]</ref> She is now the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Art History Emeritus at the [[University of Connecticut]]. Talvacchia has been a Fellow of [[Villa I Tatti]], operated by [[Harvard University]]. In 2003, she was awarded a Faculty Excellence in Research Award.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.foundation.uconn.edu/about-the-foundation/history/faculty-excellence-awards/ | title=Faculty Excellence Awards }}</ref>
From 2016 to 2019, Talvacchia served a stint as the Director of the School of Visual Arts at the [[University of Oklahoma]], succeeding [[Mary Jo Watson]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.oudaily.com/a_and_e/ou-school-of-art-and-art-history-names-new-director/article_120d8456-07ee-11e6-abe3-3b56c818ceba.html | title=OU School of Art and Art History names new director | date=April 21, 2016 }}</ref>
==See also== *[[List of Stanford University people]] *[[List of University of Connecticut people]] *[[List of University of Texas at Austin alumni]]
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==External links== *[https://nyss.org/lecture/bette-talvacchia-the-striking-case-of-the-two-michelangelos/ New York Studio School lecture]
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