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Elizabeth Lev holds degrees in art history from the University of Chicago and the University of Bologna.
Dr. Lev has taught art history in Rome for almost twenty years at John Cabot University, the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas and at present teaches at Duquesne University’s Italian campus. She has been a fellow of Notre Dame University’s De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture since 2015 and was awarded the Myser Visiting Fellowship in Fall 2018. A licensed guide of Rome and Vatican City State, she also served as a commissioner on the Rome tourism board, and as a consultant on art and faith for the Vatican Museums. In the latter capacity, she wrote “Vatican Treasures: The Via Pulchritudinis,” a film presented to Pope Benedict XVI, and created a formational course for the Vatican Museum guides.
Lev’s books include The Tigress of Forlì and A Body for Glory, and Roman Pilgrimage written with George Weigel. Her latest book, How Catholic Art Saved the Faith, released 2018, is an Amazon bestseller and has received praise from Cardinal Timothy Dolan, EWTN host Raymond Arroyo and Speaker Newt Gingrich. Her articles have appeared in First Things magazine, the College Art Association, Catholic Herald, Alethea, Zenit, Inside the Vatican and she is a regular contributor to Magnificat magazine. She has worked as a Vatican analyst for NBC, and has appeared on the Today Show, Nightline and 60 Minutes and most recently in Mo Rocca’s CBS Easter special in 2017. She also wrote and hosted “Catholic Canvas”, a 10-part television series on the art of the Vatican Museums aired on EWTN. Her TED Talk on the Sistine Chapel has garnered over 1.6 million views.
Elizabeth Lev has spoken at events all over the world, appearing for the Diocese of Melbourne during the Year of Grace, presenting “An Evening with Raphael” at the United Nations and was one of the featured speakers at the Legatus 2019 Summit in Dana Point. She often serves speaks at YPO and CEO events in Rome, and she has made presentations at numerous Vatican Patrons of the Arts chapters. During the 30th anniversary of the Vatican Patrons, she was the speaker on the Sistine Chapel.
She has led tours for twenty years, showing leaders, (including Supreme Court Justices Alito and Thomas and Vice President Cheney) and cinema stars, (Steve Martin, Kevin James, Tom Hanks) around the Eternal City. She toured the Sistine Chapel with the twenty-eight leaders of the European Union during the 60th anniversary in 2017.
In 2018, Lev served as Juror in the St Vincent’s Catholic Art Competition and in 2019 has been selected for the scientific committee of the Biennale d’Art Contemporain Sacré in Menton, France
Elizabeth Lev lives minutes from St. Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican Museums with her husband Thomas Williams and their three children, Claire 18, Giulia 17 and Joshua 6. She speaks French and Italian, loves to cook, and together with her husband became a certified sommelier in 2016.
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