Catherine Fruhan

Catherine Fruhan received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and came to DePauw in 1984 after teaching at the College of Wooster. She teaches Italian Renaissance, European Baroque, and Late-Nineteenth-Century French Art, as well as a course entitled “Gender and Representation in Early Modern Europe.” Her research interests center on late-16th and early 17th-century Rome-- including women patrons, the collecting habits of aristocratic families, papal sculpture commissions, and pilgrimage in the Jubilee Year 1600.