Served as Professor of Art History at UCLA from 1984 until her retirement in 2010, during which time she led the department in the field of Renaissance studies. In addition to her work as a teacher and PhD advisor, she produced vital scholarship to the study of court art and Renaissance portraiture through such publications as Renaissance Self-Portraiture: The Visual Construction of Identity and the Social Status of the Artist (Yale University Press, 1998).
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