Betsy Jean Rosasco
Research Curator of Later Western Art
Betsy Rosasco is an alumna of Smith College (B.A.) and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (M.A.; Ph.D.). After teaching for a year at Bryn Mawr College, she joined the Princeton University Art Museum in 1981. The Department of Later Western Art covers European and American art from the later Middle Ages to the modern period, and she has responsibility for the European section. Recent exhibitions in this area have included The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris(2005); Mir Isskustva: Russia's Age of Elegance (2006); and A Painting in Context: Pietro da Cortona's Saint Martina Refuses to Adore the Idols (2007). Betsy Rosasco’s publications include The Sculptures of the Château of Marly during the Reign of Louis XIV (New York and London, 1986), and with Norman Muller and James Marrow, Herri met de Bles: Studies and Explorations of the World Landscape Tradition (Tournhout, 1998). Recent articles include “Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg’s Ulysses Fleeing the Cave of Polyphemus: A Painting by a Danish Student of Jacques-Louis David in 1812” and “The Mystical Crucifixion: A Dominican Picture,” both in the Record of the Princeton University Art Museum (2006 and 2003 respectively) and “Two French Royal Sculpture Gardens: The Orangerie of Versailles and Jardin Haut of Marly,” in Studies in the History of Art (forthcoming).
