Rachel Kline
- Rachel Kline is a sixth year PhD candidate in History of Art & Architecture at Boston University studying the art and culture of the Italian Renaissance. Prior to attending BU, Rachel earned a dual B.A. in the history of art and anthropology with a minor in Italian from Haverford College. Rachel’s primary area of research is the female nude and its relationship to Renaissance ideologies of gender and sexuality. Rachel is especially interested in the secular domestic arts of fifteenth-century Italy and the role of the female viewer in determining their meaning. Currently, Rachel is writing her dissertation entitled, “Undressing the Renaissance Woman: The Female Nude in Fifteenth-Century Italy,” which will center female viewership by exploring representations of the female nude inside marriage chests and on objects of domestic material culture from Florence to Venice. Rachel’s work on Renaissance and Baroque art has been published in SEQUITUR and Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.