Janetta Rebold Benton

Janetta Rebold Benton lecturing at the Schimmel Center for the Arts, 2014. Photograph by Kevin Yatarola. Used with permission.

Janetta Rebold Benton is an American art historian. She is currently Distinguished Professor of Art History at Pace University in New York.

Education

Benton received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University in 1967 and a Master of Arts degree from George Washington University in 1969. She received a PhD from Brown University in 1980. She also earned an MDP diploma from the Management Development Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Career Her main focus of study is the art of the medieval and Renaissance periods. She has a particular interest in iconography, including images of animals, especially fantastic fauna and gargoyles. Contributor to The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition catalog, Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture