Rhoda Eitel-Porter

Print Quarterly (UK)

Natale Bonifacio’s Allusioni for Pope Gregory XIII, 1582–1588

2024–2025: Fall

Rhoda Eitel-Porter is an art historian and editor of the journal Print Quarterly. She previously worked for eleven years at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, ultimately as head of the department of drawings and prints. Prior to this, she was special assistant at the British Museum, London. She continues to lead the curating prints seminars offered by Print Quarterly and funded by the Getty Foundation’s Paper Project.

Rhoda is a specialist in Italian sixteenth-century drawings and prints, although her research interests also extend to late twentieth-century American and German art. Her Ph.D. on the Roman mannerist draughtsman and painter Cesare Nebbia was published in 2009, and she co-authored Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection (2010) and Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum (2019). Recent publications include articles on drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy; Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg; and Lelio Orsi, as well as the essays “Crosshatched: Printmaking, Book Illustration and Drawing in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome,” in: La Scintilla Divina. Il disegno a Roma tra Cinque e Seicento, edited by S. Albl and M. S. Bolzoni (2020) and “The Morgan Dante Drawings in Context: Book Illustrations and Drawings,” in: Immaginare La Commedia, edited by C. Perna (2022).

Website: independent.academia.edu/RhodaEitelPorter