Portrait of Dr. Emily Fenichel

Emily Fenichel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Art History | DAA Committee

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters

Visual Arts and Art History

Boca Raton Campus | SO 374

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Virginia

About

Emily Fenichel received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Dr. Fenichel���s research focuses on the interaction of art and religion in the Renaissance, particularly in the art of Michelangelo. Her essays have appeared in Renaissance Quarterly, Source: Notes on the History of Art, and Artibus et Historiae. She is currently completing a book manuscript on Michelangelo���s late sculpture, poetry, drawing and collaborations. This project examines these works as reactions to con temporary criticism of the artist���s Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel (1541) and against the backdrop of Counter-Reformation Rome. Dr. Fenichel is also the Co-Director of a Digital Humanities initiative entitled the The Arquin Slide Collection Digitization Project. This project aims to create an interactive, searchable database of FAU���s collection of Florence Arquin���s 25,000 slides of Central and South America, which were a product of Arquin���s employment by the State Department and her research on Diego Rivera.

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

The College of Arts & Letters offers degree programs and certificates in the performing arts, fine arts, languages and social sciences.