Three Mona Lisas

Rab Hatfield was born in 1937 in New York City. He received his higher education at Harvard and the University of Munich. From 1966 to 1971 he taught at Yale and from 1971 to 2012 at Syracuse University in Florence. A three-time Fellow of Villa I Tatti, he has also been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His recent books are The Wealth of Michelangelo (2002); Finding Leonardo: The Case for Recovering the Battle of Anghiari (2007); and Botticelli and Herbert Horne, of which he was the editor and to which he contributed an essay on Botticelli's Primavera(2009). He is also the author of a recent essay on Michelangelo's fortifications that appeared in Michelangelo e il linguaggio dei disegni di architettura, edited by Golo Maurer and Alessandro Nova (2012). Now retired, Professor Hatfield lives outside of Florence.
Rab Hatfield was born in 1937 in New York City. He received his higher education at Harvard and the University of Munich. From 1966 to 1971 he taught at Yale and from 1971 to 2012 at Syracuse University in Florence. A three-time Fellow of Villa I Tatti, he has also been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His recent books are The Wealth of Michelangelo (2002); Finding Leonardo: The Case for Recovering the Battle of Anghiari (2007); and Botticelli and Herbert Horne, of which he was the editor and to which he contributed an essay on Botticelli's Primavera (2009). He is also the author of a recent essay on Michelangelo's fortifications that appeared in Michelangelo e il linguaggio dei disegni di architettura, edited by Golo Maurer and Alessandro Nova (2012). Now retired, Professor Hatfield lives outside of Florence.