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Joanna Woods-Marsden got her B.A. and M.A from Trinity College, Dublin University, and her Ph.D from Harvard University. After working in Canadian museums and universities, she joined the faculty at UCLA in 1984, where she is Professor of Italian Renaissance art. Her research interests include the social context for and the function of art, as well as issues of identity in portraiture; Renaissance Self-Portraiture: The Visual Construction of Identity and the Social Status of the Artist was published by Yale in 1998. Her current book project also involves portraiture: The Visual Rhetoric of Power and Beauty: Gendered Identity in Titian's Court Portraits. She has long focused on feminist critical issues, and published "Portrait of the Lady, 1430-1520" in the exhibition catalog Virtue and Beauty, National Gallery of Art, 2001. While Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at CASVA (National Gallery of Art) in 2002-03, she did research toward a book-length study of Renaissance portraits of women. She has also published widely on issues of patronage, court art and artists (The Gonzaga of Mantua and Pisanello's Arthurian Frescoes, Princeton, 1988, and many articles). As a Fellow of Villa I Tatti in Florence and the American Academy in Rome, and the recipient of many awards, she has lived in Italy for many years and traveled extensively in that country as well as throughout Western Europe.