{{Short description|American art historian}}

'''Marcia Hall''' (born 1939), who usually publishes as '''Marcia B. Hall''', is an American art historian, who is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Renaissance Art at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture of Temple University in Philadelphia. Hall's scholarship has concentrated on Italian Renaissance painting, mostly of the sixteenth century, and especially Raphael and Michelangelo.<ref name=":0" />

==Biography== Marcia Brown was born in Washington, D.C. in 1939 to Charles Edward Brown (1894–1949), a business executive, and Frances Peebles (later Ocheltree) (1901–1991).<ref name=":1"> Sorensen, Lee, ed. [https://arthistorians.info/hallm "Hall, Marcia B."], ''Dictionary of Art Historians''. 11 August 2021.</ref>

She attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1960.<ref name=":0" /> In 1961 she married Charles Arthur Mann Hall (1924–1990), then the Dean of Wellesley's Chapel.<ref name=":1" /> She earned an MA from Radcliffe College in 1962 and won a Fulbright Fellowship in 1963 to research her dissertation on the renovations in the late 16th century to Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce, supervised by Sydney Joseph Freedberg at Harvard University.<ref name=":1" /> She is also the first scholar to discover the rood screen in both churches once removed by Giorgio Vasari during the Counter-Reformation.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hall|first=Marcia B.|date=1974|title=The Tramezzo in Santa Croce, Florence, Reconstructed|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3049260|journal=The Art Bulletin|volume=56|issue=3|pages=325–341|doi=10.2307/3049260|jstor=3049260 |issn=0004-3079|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hall|first=Marcia B.|date=1974|title=The Ponte in S. Maria Novella: The Problem of the Rood Screen in Italy|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/750838|journal=Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes|volume=37|pages=157–173|doi=10.2307/750838|jstor=750838 |s2cid=195009392 |issn=0075-4390|url-access=subscription}}</ref> She earned her PhD from Harvard in 1967.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Marcia Hall, PhD |url=https://tyler.temple.edu/faculty/marcia-hall-phd |website=Tyler School of Art |date=27 March 2013 |publisher=Temple University |access-date=11 August 2021 |language=en}}</ref> She has been teaching art history class relates to Italian Renaissance at Temple University since 1973.<ref name=":1" />

Her visiting fellowships include the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1987–1988), and twice at I Tatti, Florence.<ref name=":0" />

==Works== * 1979. ''Renovation and Counter-Reformation: Vasari and Duke Cosimo in Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce, 1565–77''. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. * 1990. ''After Raphael: Painting in Central Italy in the Sixteenth Century''. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. {{isbn|0-521-48245-3}} * 1992. ''Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting''. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nonfiction Book Review: Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting by Marcia B. Hall, Author Cambridge University Press $70 (288p) {{text|ISBN}} 978-0-521-39222-8|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780521392228|access-date=11 August 2021|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hills|first=Paul|date=1995|title=Marcia B. Hall. Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 48 col. pls. + 83 b&w pls. + xiii + 273 pp. $60.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarterly/article/abs/marcia-b-hall-color-and-meaning-practice-and-theory-in-renaissance-painting-cambridge-and-new-york-cambridge-university-press-1992-48-col-pls-83-bw-pls-xiii-273-pp-60/34F7D93C2C20E73BD5C5697CDB80A110|journal=Renaissance Quarterly|language=en|volume=48|issue=1|pages=190–192|doi=10.2307/2863351|jstor=2863351 |s2cid=163190316 |issn=0034-4338|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gill|first=Meredith J.|date=1992|title=Review of Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43444866|journal=Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme|volume=16|issue=4|pages=83–85|jstor=43444866 |issn=0034-429X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Stahl|first=Louise Z.|date=1993|title=Color and meaning: Practice and theory in renaissance painting, by Marcia Hall, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, 1991, 288 pp., $60|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/col.5080180412|journal=Color Research & Application|language=en|volume=18|issue=4|pages=288|doi=10.1002/col.5080180412|issn=1520-6378|url-access=subscription}}</ref> * 2002. ''Michelangelo. The Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel''. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nonfiction Book Review: Michelangelo: The Frescoes of Sistine Chapel by Marcia B. Hall, Author, Takashi Okamura, Photographer ABRAMS $39.95 (240p) {{text|ISBN}} 978-0-8109-3530-3|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780810935303|access-date=11 August 2021|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en}}</ref> * 2005. ''The Cambridge Companion to Raphael'' (ed.) Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.<ref>[https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22marcia+hall%22+raphael&oq=%22Marcia+Hall%22#d=gs_qabs&t=1703687366142&u=%23p%3DgWz-VM8CIOkJ ''The Cambridge Companion to Raphael''] via ''scholar.google.com''. Retrieved 2022-12-27.</ref> * 2011. ''The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio''. London and New York: Yale University Press.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bailey|first=Gauvin Alexander|date=2012|title=Marcia B. Hall. The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. x + 310 pp. $75. {{text|ISBN:}} 978–0–300–16967–6.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarterly/article/abs/marcia-b-hall-the-sacred-image-in-the-age-of-art-titian-tintoretto-barocci-el-greco-caravaggio-new-haven-yale-university-press-2011-x-310-pp-75-isbn-9780300169676/F77B5472841DA99B086CCB495203C15C|journal=Renaissance Quarterly|language=en|volume=65|issue=3|pages=885–886|doi=10.1086/668316|issn=0034-4338|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Arnold|first=Jeremy W. H.|date=2012|title=The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio – By Marcia B. Hall|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1748-0922.2011.01576_1.x|journal=Religious Studies Review|language=en|volume=38|issue=1|pages=14|doi=10.1111/j.1748-0922.2011.01576_1.x|issn=1748-0922|url-access=subscription}}</ref> * 2019. ''The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting''. New Haven: Yale University Press.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mansfield|first=Elizabeth C.|date=2021|title=The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting by Marcia B. Hall (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/781140|journal=Eighteenth-Century Studies|volume=54|issue=2|pages=486–489|doi=10.1353/ecs.2021.0020|s2cid=234200058 |issn=1086-315X|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *Marica Hall, [https://www.berfrois.com/2011/03/sacred-images-in-the-renaissance/ Limited Freedom: Sacred Images in the Renaissance], ''Berfrois'' (2 March 2011).

{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Marcia}} Category:American art historians Category:Temple University faculty Category:Wellesley College alumni Category:Radcliffe College alumni Category:Harvard University alumni Category:1939 births Category:Academics from Washington, D.C. Category:American women art historians Category:Living people