Rebecca J. Long

Rebecca J. Long is the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Curator in Painting and Sculpture of Europe at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she oversees Spanish and Italian art before 1750. She is curator of Among Friends and Rivals: Caravaggio in Rome (2023) and also served as curator of El Greco: Ambition and Defiance, presented at both the Art Institute (2020) and the Musée du Louvre/Grand Palais, Paris (2019).

Before joining the Art Institute in 2015, she served as associate curator of European painting and sculpture before 1800 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. She has held research fellowships from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, NYU’s Villa La Pietra, and Harvard University’s Villa I Tatti and has served as an adjunct professor at institutions including Indiana University, Purdue University, University of Louisville, and Northwestern University.