Firenze: Ponte S. Trinita, Ponte Vecchio
Catherine Turrill has travelled and worked extensively in Italy.
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Office: KDM 194
Office hours :Posted on instructor’s office door. Please use appointment sheet on office door to schedule an appointment during office hours.
Phone:(916) 278-5786
Email: turrillc@csus.edu

Furlough Schedule:
August 28
September 23 and 29
October 16 (campus closed)
November 10 and 25
December 15 and 21
January 4

Students enrolled in Professor Turrill’s three courses have access to the course materials posted on WebCT; detailed syllabi and some course materials are available to all Sacramento State students in the University Library Reserve room and on electronic reserves. http://library.csus.edu/

Professor Catherine Turrill teaches art history. She earned her MA and PhD degrees in art history at the University of Delaware, specializing in Italian Renaissance art. Before joining the CSUS faculty in 1995, she taught art history at the University of Delaware, Wake Forest University, and Dartmouth College. While at Dartmouth, she directed the art history program in Florence, Italy. She also taught in the University of Georgia’s foreign study program in Cortona, Italy.

Topics of her publications and conference papers from the 1980s and 1990s include the patronage and iconography of altarpieces and small devotional paintings by Ercole de’ Roberti, the provenance and date of an altarpiece by Girolamo da Carpi, aesthetic issues in 18th-century Ferrara, and the authorship of the second edition of Vasari’s Lives of the Artists. Recently she has turned her attention to the artistic activities of Suor Plautilla Nelli and other Dominican nuns in Renaissance Tuscany, presenting papers at several conferences in the United States and Italy. She contributed an essay and preliminary catalogue to the first book in English on this artist, Suor Plautilla Nelli (1523-1588): The First Woman Painter of Florence. The revised and expanded text of her 2000 conference paper on Florentine nun-artisans and their clients appears in the forthcoming publication, The Art Market in Italy (15th-17th Centuries).