Elena Ciletti

Hobart and William Smith College

January–January 2002

Elena Ciletti is associate professor of art history at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. A specialist in Renaissance and Baroque art, women artists and their patrons, and African-American Art, Professor Ciletti is a widely consulted authority on representations of Judith and Holofernes in art of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Her important essay "Patriarchal Iconography in Renaissance Iconography of Judith" appears in Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance.