Draft:Lynette M.de F. Bosch

Lynette M. de F. Bosch

Lynette M. de F. Bosch is an art historian who specializes in the Italian and Spanish Renaissance, as well as modern Latin American and Cuban art.

Early life and education.

Bosch was born in Havana, Cuba, on November 2, 1952. She attended St. George's School there until her family went into exile in the U.S. in 1961. She attended New York City parochial schools before receiving her B.A. in art history from Queens College (with minors in comparative literature and classics), her M.A. from New York's Hunter College (1978) and her Ph.D. from the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University (1985).

Career.

Bosch has taught at numerous U.S. institutions, including Hunter College, Lafayette College, Tufts University, Brandeis University, Cornell University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Boston. In 1999, she joined the faculty of the State University of New York, Geneseo, and is the founding chair of the Department of Art History and Museum Studies there. She holds the rank of Distinguished Professor in the State University of New York system.

Her first language is Spanish. However, her scholarship incorporates many European languages, from liturgical Latin, Italian, and French to Catalan, Portuguese, and medieval Provencal. She has published on Spanish liturgical manuscripts, Michaelangelo, Giorgione, Agnolo Bronzino, and Jacopo Pontormo.

Her primary areas of expertise are the Italian Renaissance, Italian Mannerism, and Latin American works of the 20th and 21st centuries, particularly Cuban-American, Mexican, and Chilean painters. Her special interest in Cuban-American artistic production began in the 1990s, as she followed the careers of exile artists and their explorations of the themes of trauma, identity, and memory. Bosch is among the first U.S. art experts to chronicle works of the Cuban-American diaspora and to curate exhibitions on major painters of the epoch, such as Arturo Rodriguez, Demi, Alberto Rey, and Jake Fernandez.

Grants and awards.

She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from The Mellon Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Renaissance Society of America, the American Philosophical Society, and Spain's Ministry of Culture, and has curated exhibitions at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Art Museum of the Americas (Washington, D.C.)

As a board or committee member, she has worked with the Cintas Foundation (2024-), Art Museum of the Americas (2021-24), American Society of Hispanic Art Scholars, College Art Association (Committee on Diversity and Committee on Women and the Arts), Sixteenth Century Studies, and the Cuban Museum of Art (Miami, FL). She has long been active with the Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History.

Personal life.

Bosch divides her time between Rochester, New York and Mount Vernon, New York. Her husband, Charles F. Burroughs, is a classicist and architectural historian (B.A., Balliol College, Oxford University; Ph.D., Warburg Institute, University of London). He was the Elsie B. Smith Professor at Case Western University, chairing the departments of Art History and Classics. At Binghamton University, he directed the Center for Renaissance and Medieval Studies and chaired the Department of Art History.

Her father, Antonio A. Bosch, was an editor and film critic for El Diario Nacional in Havana and for United Press International (New York), then served as Managing Editor for El Herald and El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish-language editions of the Miami Herald. Her grandfather, Antonio Celestino Bosch y Martinez, was the mayor of Regla, Cuba.

Sources

With Judith Berg Sobre, The Artistic Splendor of the Spanish Kingdoms: The Art of Fifteen-century Spain, 1996.

Ernesto Barreda: 1946-1996: Contemporary Chilean Painter, 1996.

Art, Liturgy, and Legend in Renaissance Toledo: The Mendoza and the Iglesia Primada, 2000.

Cuban-American Art in Miami: Exile, Identity, and the Neo-Baroque, 2007.

With Jorge Gracia and Isabel Alvarez-Borland, Identity, Memory, and Diaspora: Voices of Cuban-American Artists, Writers, and Philosophers (SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture), 2014.

Mannerism, Spirituality, and Cognition: The Art of Enargeia (Visual Culture in Early Modernity), 2020.

With Mark Denaci and Isabel Alvarez-Borland, Life Streams: The Cuban and American Art of Alberto Rey (SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture), 2014.

Contributor: Jonathan Brown, ed., The Word Made Image: Religion, Art and Architecture in Spain and Spanish America (1500-1600), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1998.

In press: "Liturgy and Theology in Michelangelo's Last Judgment," "Jake Fernandez: Florida and New York," "Arturo Rodriguez, Cuban American Artist."