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After receiving her Ph.D. in French Renaissance art from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, Yassana taught art history at NYU. In 2010, she was named a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, and subsequently a curator in that department. Yassana Croizat-Glazer founded YCG Fine Art in the spring of 2017.

Yassana’s exhibitions include: OFF CANVAS (12/20-02/21) in collaboration with A Women’s Thing Magazine, Allen Hirsch: Up Lafayette Street (02/21-05/21), Morgan Everhart: Flesh and Bloom at the David Owsley Museum of Art (05/21-06/21), and BLISS (11/21-01/22). Yassana was honored to contribute an essay on women’s roles in the silk industries of Early Modern Europe to Making Her Mark, A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800, the award-winning catalogue for the exhibition of that name held at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2023-24.

Yassana’s publications include:

  • “Unraveling the Threads: Women Working with Silk in Italy, France, and England, 1500-1800,” in Making Her Mark, A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800, ed. Andaleeb Badie Banta and Alexa Greist. Exh. cat. Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane Editions, 2023.

  • Yassana Croizat-Glazer and Sarah Harris Weiss, eds., Exploration and Revelation: French Renaissance Studies in Honor of Colin Eisler. University of Toronto Press, 2020.

  • “Fleeting, Floating, Flying: Morgan Everhart’s Floral Compositions and the Meanings of Gravity.” In Morgan Everhart: Flowers For My Failures, ed. Alex Grabiec. Exh. cat., Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, 2019.

  • “The Role of Ancient Egypt in Masquerades at the Court of François Ier (r. 1515-1547).” Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 4 (Winter 2013): 1206-1249.

  • “Sin and Redemption in The Hours of François I (1539-1540) by the Master of François de Rohan.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal, Vol. 48 (2013): 121-142.

  • Entry for a Cabinet (Dressoir) in the Style of Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau, in Georges Hoentschel: Collector, Designer, Architect in Belle-Époque Paris, April 4-August 11, 2013. Exh. cat. New Haven; London: Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by Yale University Press. pp. 184-86.

  • “‘Living Dolls’: François Ier Dresses His Women.” Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, No.1 (Spring 2007): 94-130. (Under the name Yassana C. Croizat).

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