Katy Smith Abbott

Katy Smith Abbott is awesome. She is very in tune with her students and a very effective lecturer. This class is easy but high-value, a rare combo. The class makes me want to go to Italy because now I feel I have a very good base-level understanding of Florentine Renaissance art. There was some memorization required for two in-class tests, but I think the memorization is a good exercise because then you're more likely to remember these pieces of art.

Katy Smith Abbott is awesome. She is very in tune with her students and a very effective lecturer. This class is easy but high-value, a rare combo. The class makes me want to go to Italy because now I feel I have a very good base-level understanding of Florentine Renaissance art. There was some memorization required for two in-class …Read more

professor smith abbot is very passionate about this subject, and it made lectures interesting. she lectured pretty much every day and we took notes. we would then be tested on this material, but she gave us a study guide. it is all memorization. we also played a game that was fun where we role played a character in the renaissance.

Professor Smith Abbott (no hyphen) was my favorite professor this semester. She was so knowledgeable and passionate about the course material and made the class engaging. I intend on taking another art history course in a future semester just to have her as a professor again.