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Jean Marie Christensen

is a doctoral candidate in Art History at Southern Methodist University and 2024-2025 short-term Folger Shakespeare Library Fellow. A specialist in British portraiture and court culture, her research examines the intersection between portrait conventions and production methods with political, familial, and bodily theories in Tudor-Stuart England.
Defining Beauty in Text and Image in the late Seventeenth-Century
A black and white engraving of the same portrait. Beneath the portrait is the text Barbara Duchess of Cleveland.
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Defining Beauty in Text and Image in the late Seventeenth-Century

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Fellow Jean Marie Christensen explores beauty standards of the 17th century.

Mantel’s Wolf Hall and the Fictions of Portraiture
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Mantel’s Wolf Hall and the Fictions of Portraiture

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We revisit the August 2023 presentation by Jean Marie Christensen on Hilary Mantel’s novel, Wolf Hall.