Bette Talvacchia

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Bette Lou Talvacchia (born 1951) is an American art historian and educator. She is the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Art History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. Talvacchia earned a Master of Arts in art history from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975, writing about Italian Futurist artists Giacomo Balla and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. She earned her PhD in Art History from Stanford University in 1981, with a dissertation on Giulio Romano’s work in Mantua under the supervision of Kurt Forster.

An expert in Renaissance art, she has taught at the University of Connecticut since finishing her PhD. She has been a Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard-run center for Italian Renaissance studies, and received the University of Connecticut’s Faculty Excellence in Research Award in 2003. From 2016 to 2019 she served as the Director of the School of Visual Arts at the University of Oklahoma, succeeding Mary Jo Watson.