Cohen Simona, Department of East Asian Studies
Short Curriculum Vitae (highlights):
Department of Art History, Faculty of the Arts; Department of East Asian
Studies, Faculty of the Humanities; School of Education; Tel-Aviv
University, Ramat-Aviv, 69978 Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Born in New York. * Art Studies: in 1955-56 at the Art Students League,
New York; 1960-62 at the Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem; 1962-64 at
the School of Visual Arts, New York.
* Academic studies: Tel-Aviv University. Degrees in Counselling and Art
History. Ph.d in Art History (1983).
Doctoral Dissertation:
The Image of Time in Renaissance Depictions of Petrarch's 'Trionfo del
Tempo', Tel-Aviv University, 1982 (unpublished).
* Since 1974 - Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art, Department of Art
History. * Since 1994 - Chairman of the Art Teachers Training Program,
School of Education. * Since 1996 - Lecturer on Indian Art, Department
of East Asian Studies.
Additional Professional Undertakings: * Supervisor/Writer of Film
Series on Art History, Educational Television Authority, Tel-Aviv.
* Adviser on Series of Publications - Renaissance Art in Italy, The Open
University, Israel. * Lecturer on Indian Art, The Institute for
Geographical Studies and The Center for Far Eastern Studies, Tel-Aviv.
Major publications (books and major articles):
"The Nobility of the Chisel and the Brush - The Status of the Artist in
the Renaissance," in M. Harsagor (ed.), Introduction to the Renaissance,
Tel-Aviv, 1978, 41-48 (in Hebrew).
"Cristoforo Cortese Reconsidered," Arte Veneta, Venezia, 1985, 22-31.
"The Triumph of Time in Renaissance Art," Zmanim, (historical
quarterly), Tel-Aviv University, winter 1986, no.20, 36-42 (in Hebrew).
"The Romanesque Zodiac: Its Symbolic Function on the Church Facade,"
Arte Medievale, Roma, II serie, IV, n.1, 1990, 43-54.
"A New Perspective on Giorgione's 'Three Philosophers'," Paris,
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol.CXXVI, September, 1995, 53-64.
Swati R. Mehta, India's Artistic Heritage, exhibition catalogue,
the Yechiel Nahari Museum of Far Eastern Art, Ramat Gan, 1995.
"Virtuousness and Wisdom in the Giorgionesque Fresco of Castelfranco,
Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol.CXXVIII, July-August, 1996, 1-20.
soon to be published:
"Titian's London Allegory and the Three Beasts of his 'Selva
Oscura'," Venezia Cinquecento, (University of Rome), Rome, 1997.
"Titian's Allegory of Sin," Zmanim, Tel-Aviv University, June 1997
(in Hebrew).
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