Betsy Purvis

betsy.purvis@utoronto.ca

Betsy Purvis received her PhD in Art History from the University of Toronto. Her research examines the use of large-scale, life-like polychrome sculpture as a means of political messaging in 15th-century Italy. More broadly her research interests include art and politics, patronage studies, materials and materiality, and the intersections between painting and sculpture. Before coming to Toronto, she taught the history of Renaissance art and architecture in Italy with Syracuse University in Florence.