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Dr. Judith Steinhoff teaches Art History Survey courses and upper level courses on Medieval Art, such as Arts, Artists, and Patrons, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Italian Gothic Art and Patronage. In addition to University of Houston, she has also taught at Princeton University, Rice University, Harvard University, and Trinity College (Hartford, CT).

Professor Steinhoff's primary area of research is Italian Gothic art. Her interests include artists' working relationships and the ways in which artists and patrons used artistic style to enrich pictorial meanings. She is also interested in Medieval illuminated manuscripts throughout Europe.
Dr. Steinhoff is currently completing a book entitled Tradition and Transformations: Artistic Production, Patronage, and Politics in Siena in the mid-Fourteenth Century.

Dr. Judith Steinhoff
Department of Art
University of Houston