Margaret Finch was born in New York City. She has lived in northwestern Connecticut since 1959. Married for 38 years, she is now divorced. Her daughter is a photographer who lives in southeastern Connecticut. Her son is a film producer and film historian who teaches currently at a university in Florida.
Margaret Finch is a Professor Emerita in Art History at the University of Hartford. She has a B.A. in Art History from Vassar College, 1953. She took a junior year leave-of-absence at Yale University’s School of Art. She received an M.A. in 1968 from the Institute of Fine Arts, N.Y.U. Her Ph.D. is from Bryn Mawr, 1987. She received a Bryn Mawr fellowship at Villa Massenzia, in Rome, where she did dissertation research at the American Academy in Rome and other Roman libraries.
She published Style in Art History (Scarecrow Press) in 1974. Her scholarly articles have appeared in Gazette des Beaux-Arts; Gesta; Artibus et Historiae; and Apollo. A chapter in Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English (William Wallace, ed., Garland, 1995), is a reprint of the Gazette article. The Leonardo Code is her first writing addressed to a general audience. Currently, she lectures for Trinity College, Hartford, in the Lifelong Learning program and for Trinity’s Elderhostel programs in Italy.
Email: finch@hartford.edu
College students who have read Dan Brown’s potboiler may be wondering about the true identity of the figure at Christ’s right in Leonardo’s Last Supper. They will find an answer and much, much more in this beautifully written and aptly illustrated art-history ‘mystery.’
—Charles Ross, Professor of English, University of Hartford
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