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Author: Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

The author, a noted scholar and professor of art history, discusses her recently released memoir "One Life for Two: The Autobiography of Irving and Marilyn Lavin."

Tea and cookies will be served starting at 2:45 p.m.

About the Book (from the publisher): 

"What do you do when your husband gets the best job in the country in a field that he stole from you? Well, that’s what happened to me, and that’s what this book is about." So begins Marilyn Aronberg Lavin’s spirited memoir of her seventy-year relationship with Irving Lavin, one of America's most eminent art historians. Her narrative traces their parallel careers as they both achieve remarkable success―he as a distinguished professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; she as an award-winning authority on Italian Renaissance painting, iconography, and collectionism. Reflecting on their shared passion for the history of art, Marilyn has crafted a portrait of a partnership, while showing readers how the world of art history can be both intellectually rigorous and emotionally rewarding.

About the Author:

Marilyn Aronberg Lavin has taught the history of art at Washington University, the University of Maryland, Yale, Princeton, and Università di Roma, La Sapienza. Her art historical work is in 14th- and 15th-century Italian art, with emphasis on Piero della Francesca; her best-known books are "Piero’s Flagellation," "The Place of Narrative: Mural Decoration in Italian Churches," and her monumental "Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art" that won the national Morey Award for Distinguished Scholarship. She was a pioneer and leader in the use of computers and digitized imagery for research, teaching, and publication in the history of art and, starting in 1991, the moderator of a Listserv she created for art and architectural historians with a membership 800 scholars from 22 countries around the world.

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