Mann, Judith (W.) 1950-

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MANN, Judith (W.) 1950-

PERSONAL: Born September 29, 1950, in Washington, DC; daughter of James H. (a lawyer) and Margaret (a politician and fund-raiser; maiden name, Blackwell) Mann; married David T. Konig (a college professor), November 9, 1975; children: Madeleine Blackwell, William James. Ethnicity: "Euro-American." Education: Mount Holyoke College, B.A., 1972; Washington University, St. Louis, MO, M.A., 1978, Ph.D., 1986. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Unitarian-Universalist. Hobbies and other interests: Sewing, travel, film, books.

ADDRESSES: Home—500 Lee Ave., Webster Groves, MO 63119. Office—Saint Louis Art Museum, 1 Fine Arts Dr., St. Louis, MO 63110; fax: 314-721-6172. E-mail—jmann@slam.org.

CAREER: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, adjunct professor, 1986-87; Webster University, Webster Groves, MO, adjunct professor of art history, 1987-88; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, curatorial assistant, 1988-91, assistant curator, 1991-97, curator of early European art, 1997—. Washington University, St. Louis, MO, adjunct professor, 1989; University of Missouri—St. Louis, assistant professor, 1991-97. Lecturer at educational institutions, including College of William and Mary, American University in Paris, University of Tulsa, and Southeast Missouri State University; guest on media programs; public speaker.

MEMBER: International Center for Medieval Art, Sixteenth Century Studies Society, Renaissance Society of America, College Art Association, Italian Art Society, Association of Art Historians (England), Midwest Art History Society (president).

AWARDS, HONORS: Fellow of National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990; grants from National Endowment for the Arts, 1994, 2001.

WRITINGS:

Medieval Art in the Collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO), 1992.

Baroque into Rococo: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Italian Paintings, St. Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO), 1997.

(With Keith Christiansen) Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), 2001.

Contributor to books, including Gothic Sculpture in American Collections, edited by Dorothy Gillerman, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 2002. Contributor to periodicals, including Art Bulletin, Sixteenth Century Journal, Studies in Iconography, and Apollo.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Artemisia Gentileschi and the Nature of Baroque Innovation, a monograph; editing Eroticism and Religious Art in the Seventeenth Century, with Caroline Straughan.

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