Santa Clara University

Kate Lusheck 

Kate Lusheck earned her Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley (2000), producing a dissertation entitled Rubens’s Graphic Eclecticism: Style, Eloquence and the Matter of Drawing, circa 1600-1620. In addition to her work on Northern Baroque art, her primary areas of interest include visual rhetoric, early modern humanism and the classical tradition, and Renaissance style theory. Since January 2005, Kate has taught a wide range of art history courses at Santa Clara University and other Bay Area institutions, including the introductory art history sequence, as well as special topics courses in Northern Baroque and 18th-Century European art. She has presented her research on Flemish art at annual meetings of the College Art Association and the Renaissance Society of America, as well as at a number of universities and museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, and the University of California. Her publications include “Content in Form: Rubens’s Kneeling Man and the Graphic Reformation of the Ideal, Robust Male Nude,” in the Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (2000) and a recent book review appearing in Renaissance Quarterly (2009). Currently, she is completing a book-length manuscript entitled Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing.