Yael Even is a professor of Art History, who specializes in Italian Renaissance Art, in general, and Florentine culture and society during the 15th and 16th centuries, in particular. In addition to teaching surveys in Western Art, she has offered such courses as Italian & Northern European Renaissance Art & Architecture, Topics in Renaissance, Baroque Art & Architecture, and Topics in Baroque Art. She has presented papers at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, the Renaissance Society in America Conference, and the International Medieval Studies Conference, among others.

Her most recent articles,"The Public Familiarization with Images of Heroic Rape in Medicean Florence" and "Nessus’s Abduction of Deianira: A Subject for All Seasons" appear in The International Journal of the Arts in Society and Explorations in Renaissance Culture, respectively. Earlier essays, such as "On Women and Lions," and "The Hero as Heroine in Michelangelo’s Art" have been published in Fifteenth Century Studies and the Woman’s Art Journal. Professor Even’s M.A. thesis explores Flemish influences in 15th-century Italy, whereas her PhD dissertation examines different types of artistic parternships and public patronage during the same period. The latter subject formed the basis of her earliest studies, including ‘Ghiberti’s Quest for Artistic Autonomy" (Kunshistorisk Tidkrift) and "Divide and Conquer: The Patronage of the Opera del Duomo" (Source)." Her current research centers on the public’s reaction to public art in 15th and 16th-century Florence.

Professor Even received her B.A. in Art History and English & American Literature at the Hebrew University, her M.A. at the Universite de Paris (X), and her PhD at Columbia University. As a doctoral student, she has taught courses in Art Humanities at Columbia university.

Yael Even
Professor, Art and Art History
585 Lucas Hall
314.516.5975
schan@umsl.edu