Kathleen Weil-Garris

Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt ( Weil-Garris, formerly Posner; both German. She taught "The Age of Michelangelo", a 1965 Sunrise Semester course.

In 1963, Weil-Garris joined the New York University Department of Fine Art.

Weil-Garris was author of the books Leonardo and Central Italian Art, 1515–1550 (1974) and The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture (1993). she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of Baccio Bandinelli and the art of his time", and she was a 1976 Resident of the American Academy in Rome. She and James S. Ackerman produced a film titled Looking for Renaissance Rome (1976). She co-edited an exhibition catalogue for the 1999–2000 exhibition La giovinezza di Michelangelo.

In October 1995, while visiting the Payne Whitney House for a French art exhibition, Weil-Garris attributed a small marble statue there to Michelangelo. and Carey Lovelace of Newsday remarked that it would be "the only Michelangelo statue in the Western Hemisphere". This identification has been the subject of controversy, with art historians Leo Steinberg and James Beck expressing doubts over the attribution.

Weil-Garris was married to art historian Donald Posner – whom she met during her time at Harvard – from 1962 until their divorce. She then married physicist Werner Brandt in 1983; they remained married until his death that same year.

Works Leonardo and Central Italian Art, 1515–1550 (1974) (with John F. D'Amico) The Renaissance Cardinal's Ideal Palace: A Chapter from Cortesi's De Cardinalatu (1980) The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture (1993)