Dissertations in Progress

The IAS lists dissertations in progress on all subjects of Italian art.  If you would like your dissertation listed, or know of one that should be listed here, please send to the webmaster using the following format: Last name of author, first name of author, “Title of PhD Dissertation in Quotes” (Name of Institution, Advisor’s First Initial and Last Name). Please identify the subject area(s) according to the following categories: Prehistoric / Etruscan Art; Roman / Late Antique Art; Early Medieval/Romanesque/Gothic Art; Renaissance/Baroque Art; Eighteenth- / Nineteenth-Century Art; or Modern / Contemporary Art

Prehistoric / Etruscan Art

Holt, Emily, “Competition, Resources, and the Consolidation of Social Complexity in Bronze Age Sardinia” (Michigan, J. O’Shea, S. Herbert)

Huntsman, Theresa, “Eternal Personae: Chiusine Cinerary Urns and the Construction of Etruscan Identity” (Washington University, S. Rotroff)

Layton-Kim, Stephanie, “Objects, Images, and Spaces: The Archaeology of Performance in Etruria” (Virginia, T. Smith)

Roman / Late Antique Art

Abbe, Mark, “The Polychromy of Ancient Roman Sculpture” (IFA/NYU, K. Welch)

Awan, Heather, “Sarcophagi and Funerary Display in Roman Aphrodisias” (IFA/NYU, K. Welch)

Banducci, Laura, “Foodways and Cultural Identity in Roman Republican Italy” (Michigan, IPCAA, N. Terrenato)

Blevins, Susan, “Eternalizing the Emperor: Architecture, Cult, and Imperial Deification in Rome” (Emory, E. Varner)

Casagrande-Kim, Roberta, “The Journey to the Underworld: Topography, Landscape, and Divine Inhabitants of the Roman Hades” (Columbia, R. Brilliant)

Cipolla, Nicholas, “The Concept and Image of the Roman Infans: Defining the Boundaries between Reality and Myth” (USC, J. Pollini)

Cline, Lea, “The Altars of Rome Reconsidered: Rome’s Sacred Furniture, from Evander to Constantine” (UT Austin, J. Clarke, P. Davies)

Couzin, Robert, “The Christian Turn: Figural Imagery on Roman Sarcophagi” (Toronto, J. Caskey)

Danford, Rachel, “Manipulating Matter: Stucco Sculpture from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages” (Johns Hopkins, H. Kessler)

Darby, Robert, “Gloria Restitutum: Baths from Diocletian to Constantine” (Missouri, Columbia, M. Rautman)

Dennis, Nathan, “The Early Christian Baptistery as a Vision of Paradise” (Johns Hopkins, H. Kessler)

Follo, Valentina, “The Power of Augustan Imagery in the Age of Mussolini” (Pennsylvania, C. Brian Rose)

Fowlkes, Blair, “The Cults of Syrian-Phoenician Gods in the City of Rome: Archaeology, Topography, and Connections to the Roman East” (IFA/NYU, K. Welch)

Gensheimer, Maryl, “Decoration and Display in the Imperial Thermae of Rome: Visual Experience and Intended Meaning” (IFA/NYU, K. Welch)

Grossmann, Richard, “Posthumous Imperial Portraits: The Afterlives of Roman Emperors’ Images” (Yale, D. Kleiner)

Hammond, Mark, “Late Roman Pottery from the Panayia Field Excavations at Corinth” (Missouri, Columbia, M. Rautman, K. Slane)

Heuser, Jennifer Ledig, “Visual Epic: Roman Images of the Trojan Cycle” (Harvard, G. F. Pinney)

Huntsman, Theresa, “Eternal Personae: Chiusine Cinerary Urns and the Construction of Etruscan Identity” (Washington University, S. Rotroff)

Jacob, Cynthia, “Morgantina: The Worked Bone and Ivory Objects, 459 BC to the First Century AD” (Rutgers, A. Harvey)

Jones, Nathaniel, “Nobilibus pinacothecae sunt faciundae: The Inception of the Fictive Picture Gallery in Augustan Rome” (Yale, D. Kleiner)

Knapp, Jennifer, “Shaping Identity: An Analysis of Hellenistic Southern Italian Ceramics and Its Implications for Cultural and Societal Change” (Missouri, Columbia, K. Slane)

Lardi, Joelle, “Wondrous Water: The Symbolic Imagery, Use, and Display of Water in the Imperial Palaces of Ancient Rome” (UT Austin, J. Clark, P. Davies)

Lieberman, Leigh, “The Persistent Past: Refoundations in Sicily and Magna Graecia in the 5th and 4th Centuries BCE” (Princeton, M. Koortbojian, N. Arrington, N. Luraghi)

Lytle, Elizabeth, “Water and Aemulatio: Republican and Early Imperial Public Fountains in the City of Rome” (Emory, E. Varner)

McAlpine, Lynley, “Marble, Memory, and Meaning in the Four Pompeian Styles of Wall Painting” (Michigan, E. Gazda)

McCollum, Jacquelyn, “Painted Faces: Bust Medallions on the Bay of Naples” (Emory, E. Varner)

Miliaresis, Ismini, “Heating and Fuel Consumption in the Forum Baths at Ostia” (Virginia, J. Dobbins)

Mogetta, Marcello, “The Origin of Roman Concrete” (Michigan, N. Terrenato)

Molacek, Elizabeth, “Seeing, Gazing, Observing: The Representations of Sight in Roman Domestic Wall Paintings, 100 BC–AD 100” (Virginia, J. Dobbins)

Moser, Claudia, “Material Witnesses: The Memory of Sacrifice and the Altars of Republican Rome and Latium” (Brown University, S. Alcock, J. Bodel)

Nowlin, Jessica, “Reorienting Orientalization: Local Consumption and Value in Central Italy between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas” (Brown, S. Alcock, J. Cherry)

Olson, Emily V., “Statue Groups of the Roman Imperial Family in Context: A Case Study Approach” (UNC Chapel Hill, M. Sturgeon)

Popkin, Maggie, “The Triumphal Route in Republican and Imperial Rome: Architecture, Experience, and Roman Identities” (IFA/NYU, K. Welch)

Raabe, Ashleigh, “Second Style Painting and Social Ritual: The House of the Cryptoporticus at Pompeii” (UNC Chapel Hill, M. Sturgeon)

Stewart, Devon, “Making Memory in Ancient Rome: Roman Funerary Portraiture from 100 BCE–300 CE” (Emory, E. Varner)

Sulosky Weaver, Carrie, “Depositing the Dead: Material Culture and Funerary Practices in Kamarina, Sicily, ca. 5th to 3rd Century BC” (Virginia, T. J. Smith)

Trentin, Summer, “Pompeian Peristyles: Form, Function, and Meaning” (Iowa, B. Longfellow)

Trentinella, Rosemarie, “The Roman Villa in South Italy: Elite Residence, Center for Production” (IFA/NYU, K. Welch)

van der Graaff, Ivo, “The City Walls of Pompeii: Perceptions and Expressions of a Monumental Boundary” (UT Austin, J. Clarke, P. Davies)

Walthall, D. Alexander, “A Measured Harvest: Grain, Tithes, and Territories in Hellenistic and Roman Sicily (276–31 BCE)” (Princeton, W. Childs)

Early Medieval/Romanesque/Gothic Art

D’Antonio, Aurelia, “Throwing Stones at Friars: The Church of San Francesco in Piacenza” (Duke, C. Bruzelius)

Fee, Carey, “per Sanctum Vultum de Luca! Il Volto Santo and the Face of Lucca in the Eleventh through Fourteenth Centuries” (Florida State, P. Gerson)

Fluke, Meredith, “Building across the Sacred Landscape: The Romanesque Churches of Verona and Their Urban Context” (Columbia, S. Murray, H. Klein)

Fox, Allison, “Burial and Resurrection: The Sculpted Sarcophagi of Ravenna and Visions of Perpetuity in an Age of Flux” (UNC Chapel Hill, D. Verkerk)

Gustafson, Erik, “Tradition and Renewal in the Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Architecture of Tuscany” (IFA/NYU, M. Trachtenberg)

Haakenson, Hilary, “Mapping Cultural Crossroads: The Old Testament, Geography, and Artistic Rivalry in the Late Medieval Maritime Republics of Italy” (Rutgers, S. McHam)

Harper, Alexander, “Patronage in the Re-Christianized Landscape of Angevin Apulia: The Rebuilding of Luceria Sarracenorum into Civitas Sanctae Mariae” (Toronto, J. Caskey)

Hauknes, Marius, “Imago, Figura, Scientia: The Image of the World in 13th-Century Rome” (Princeton, N. Zchomelidse)

Katz, Dana, “A Changing Mosaic: Multicultural Exchange in the Norman Palaces of Twelfth-Century Sicily” (Toronto, J. Caskey)

Kim, Anna, “Real Presence: The Iconic Image between Byzantium and Italy and Beyond” (Virginia, D. Summers)

Longenbach, Erica, “Constructing Campanilismo: The Sacred Topography of Ravenna in the Middle Ages” (UNC Chapel Hill, D. Verkerk)

Raucher, Meredith, “Blood(less) on the Cross: The Crucifix and Its Function in Late Medieval Tuscany” (Johns Hopkins, H. Kessler)

Sanecki, Jamie, “Building a City around the Face of God: Sculpture and Architecture in Lucca, 1100–1250” (Pennsylvania, R. Maxwell)

Spiro, Anna Lee, “The Sculpture of Nicholaus in the Context of Twelfth-Century Italian Political History” (Columbia, H. Klein, D. Rosand)

Steinborn, Carly Jane, “Transforming Sacred Space: Image and Materiality in the Orthodox Baptistery of Ravenna” (Rutgers, E. Thunø)

Renaissance/Baroque Art

Ajello, Guendalina, “Rione Parione: The Afterlife of an Ancient Roman Cluster of Spectator Buildings” (IFA/NYU, M. Trachtenberg)

Allan, Eva, “The Triumph Theme and Its Variations in Long Renaissance Prints” (Yale, C. Wood, A. Dunlop)

Backus, Irene, “Asia Materialized: Perceptions of China in Renaissance Florence” (Chicago, R. Zorach)

Bailey, Meryl, “Charity, Violence, and the Art of Venice’s Scuola di San Fantin” (UC Berkeley, L. Partridge)

Baseggio Omiccioli, Eveline, “Humanism and Faith: Servite Art in Venice, Patronage at Santa Maria dei Servi” (Rutgers, B. Paul)

Bell, Peter, “The Reinvention of the Bronze Statuette in Renaissance Italy: Presentation, Material, Facture” (IFA/NYU, A. Nagel)

Bentkowski, Sebastian A., “The Artistic and Architectural Patronage at the Court of Alessandro de’ Medici (1531–1537): Strategies of Representation and Legitimation” (UT Austin, L. Waldman)

Berzal, Javier, “Spaces of Action: Visual Experiences in Early Modern Italian Scenography” (Ohio State, C. Kleinbub)

Blom, Laura, “Art of the Macabre in Florence circa 1500” (Johns Hopkins, S. Campbell)

Bourla, Lisa, “The Reform of Drawing and the Natural Act of Painting: Lodovico Cigoli and His Florentine Circle, ca. 1600” (Pennsylvania, M. Cole)

Budny, Virginia, “Benedetto da Maiano and His Workshops” (IFA/NYU, M. Trachtenberg)

Buonanno, Lorenzo G., “Sculpted Altarpieces and the Interaction of the Arts in Early Renaissance Venice” (Columbia, D. Rosand)

Busby, Richard, “Sacramental Ritual and Sites of Remembrance: The Angevin Tombs in San Lorenzo Maggiore, Santa Chiara, and Santa Maria Donnaregina in Naples” (Emory, C. Jean Campbell)

Chien, Letha, “Tintoretto’s San Marco Cycle” (UC Berkeley, T. Olson)

Cloud, Jasmine, “Renovation in the Campo Vaccino: The Churches on the Roman Forum from Clement VIII to Alexander VII” (Temple, T. Cooper)

Conrad, Jessamyn, “Telling Time: Contextualizing Narrative Painting in Duccio’s Maestà and the Trecento Altars in the Crossing of the Duomo of Siena” (Columbia, D. Rosand)

Copp, Catherine, “The Carracci and Venice” (Queen’s, Kingston, D. McTavish)

Corradino, Christopher, “The Life and Work of Giovanni Mansueti” (IFA/NYU, C. Eisler)

Coughlin, Michael, “Art, Violence, and the Staging of Masculinity in Renaissance Venice” (University of British Columbia, B. Wilson)

Cymbala, Amy, “Uxor Carissima, Mulier Clarissima: Women’s Tomb Monuments in Rome, 1550–1750” (Pittsburgh, A. Harris)

D’Antonio, Aurelia, “Throwing Stones at Friars: The Church of San Francesco in Piacenza” (Duke, C. Bruzelius)Damen, Gaida, “The Trade in Antiquities between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean (ca. 1400–1600)” (Princeton, P. Brown)

David, Margaret Diane, “Francesco Mochi, Sculptor (1580–1654)” (Columbia, D. Rosand)

Davies, Gregory, “Playing with Fire: Caricature and Its Epistemology in Baroque Italy” (Toronto, P. Sohm)

Di Croce, Alessandra, “Collections of Early-Christian and Medieval Art in Baroque Rome” (Columbia, D. Freedberg)

Di Resta, Jason, “Crudeliter accentuando eructant: Rethinking Center and Periphery in the Art of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone” (Johns Hopkins, S. Campbell)

Dillon, Sarah, “Trecento Visuality and Visual Arts: The Role of Glass and the Influence of Optics on Italian Art of the Fourteenth Century” (CUNY, J. Saslow)

Diorio, Jennifer, “Florentine Workshop Methods of the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century as Analysed in the Work of Neri di Bicci, Benozzo Gozzoli, and Domenico Ghirlandaio” (Queen’s, Kingston, D. McTavish)

Dorger, Ceil, “Studies in the Image of the Madonna Lactans in Late Medieval through Early Modern Italy” (Louisville, C. Fulton)

Edgerton, Hannah, “The Apotheosis of Federico da Montefeltro: Art Power and Identity in Late Quattrocento Italy” (Indiana, G. Knox)

Eldredge, Benjamin, “Pater Patriae, Defensor Fidei, Principe: Andrea Doria, San Matteo, and the Art of Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Italy” (Rutgers, B. Paul)

Elliot-Beatty, Susan, “Alexander VII, Bernini, and the Cappella del Voto in Siena” (Toronto, E. Levy)

Estevez, Lisandra, “Jusepe de Ribera’s Self-Fashioning and Artistic Identity in Early Modern Italy and Spain” (Rutgers, C. Puglisi)

Fee, Carey, “per Sanctum Vultum de Luca! Il Volto Santo and the Face of Lucca in the Eleventh through Fourteenth Centuries” (Florida State, P. Gerson)

Fenichel, Emily, “Michelangelo and the Cult of the Virgin” (Virginia, D. Summers)

Fishburne, James, “Casting and Ecclesiastical Prince: The Portrait Medals of Pope Julius II” (UCLA, J. Woods-Marsden)

Fisher, Allison, “Artistic Interest in the Life of Alexander the Great during the Italian Renaissance: Designs in All Media, with a Focus on Raphael and His Workshop” (Queen’s, Kingston, C. Hoeniger)

Fletcher, Francis, “Mantegna’s Fictive Reliefs: Painting as Moral Philosophy and the Humanist Language of Historical Inquiry in the Renaissance” (Rutgers, S. McHam)

Ford, Suzan, “Bernini’s Tomb of Urban VIII in St. Peter’s: A Study of Art and Papal Power in the Context of the Counter-Reformation” (Rutgers, T. Marder)

Geddes, Leslie, “Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Water” (Princeton, J. Pinto)

Glatstein, Jeremy, “The Watching Night: Print, Power, and Jewish Vision in Early Modern Italy” (USC, S. Roberts)

Graham, Brenna, “The Most Bitter and Untimely of Events: Women, Death, and the Monumental Tomb in Quattrocento Italy” (Rutgers, B. Paul)

Hara, Mari Yoko, “Places of Performance: Scenography and Architecture of Baldassarre Peruzzi, 1482–1531” (Virginia, C. Brothers)

Harris, Natalie, “Art at the Crossroads: Venice, the Vivarini, and the Negotiation of Cultural Identity, 1410–1510” (Penn State, B. Curran)

Heinrichs, Johanna, “Between City and Country: Francesco Pisani, Palladio, and Sixteenth-Century Architecture in the Veneto” (Princeton, J. Pinto)

Hetherington, Anna Ratner, “Melancholy Illusions: From Bosch to Titian” (Columbia, D. Rosand)

Huang, Xiao, “Francesco Salviati Ritrattista: Experiments in Cinquecento Portraiture” (Queen’s, Kingston, D. McTavish)

Hulst, Titia, “The Leo Castelli Gallery” (IFA/NYU, T. Crow, J. Brown)

Hurst, Ellen, “Italians and the New Byzantium: Lombard and Venetian Architects in Muscovy, 1472–1539” (CUNY, J. Saslow)

Iarocci, Bernice, “The Santissima Annunziata of Florence and the Reception of Sacred Images during the Counter-Reformation Period” (Toronto, P. Sohm)

Ilchman, Frederick, “Tintoretto’s Judgment: Artistic Ambition in Counter-Reformation Venice” (Columbia, D. Rosand)

Imbrey, Jai, “Fictive Frame and Image in Northern Italian Quattrocento Painting” (IFA/NYU, C. Eisler)

Irwin, Christa, “Rome in Lima: Italian Renaissance Influence in Colonial Peruvian Painting” (CUNY, J. Saslow)

Isard, Katherine, “Scritti secondo Vitruvio: Vincenzo Scamozzi and Reading as Architectural Practice in Sixteenth-Century Italy” (Columbia, D. Rosand, F. Benelli)

Jacobi, Lauren, “The Topography of Money: The Architecture and Urbanism of Renaissance Banks in Italy” (IFA/NYU, M. Trachtenberg)

Karentzos, Loukas, “Court and Countryside: Central Italian Villas of the Mid-Sixteenth Century” (Princeton, J. Pinto)

Kawase, Yusuke, “Jusepe de Ribera and His Workshop in Naples, 1616–1652: Its Function and Practice” (IFA/NYU, J. Brown)

Keener, Chrystine, “Jacopo Pontormo and the Transformation of Christology in Early-Modern Florence” (Indiana, G. Knox)

Kemling, Michael, “The Portraits of Michelangelo: 1508–1564” (Georgia, S. Zuraw)

Kennedy, Trinita, “Pandolfo Petrucci’s Patronage at the Osservanza: A Study in Political and Religious Crisis in Renaissance Siena” (IFA/NYU, K. Weil-Garris Brandt)

Kim, Jennie, “Tradition, Theory, and Practice: Drawings in the Italian Renaissance Workshop, from Pietro Perugino to the Pupils of Raphael” (CUNY, J. Saslow)

Kinew, Shawon, “The Project of Sculpture in the Age of Alexander VII: Melchiorre Cafà and Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the World” (Harvard, F. Fehrenbach)

Kulpa, Pierette, “From Michelangelo to Mussolini: Attribution and Appropriation in the Palestrina Pietà” (Penn State, B. Curran)

Langer, Lara, “Andrea Sansovino: Mastering the Spectacle of Sculpture in Sixteenth-Century Italian Art” (Maryland, College Park, M. Gill)

Lepine-Cercone, Chantelle, “Art and Business in Seventeenth-Century Naples: The Collecting and Dealing Practices of Gaspare Roomer” (Queen’s, Kingston, S. Schütze, S. Dickey)

Letwin, Hilary Hunt, “The Power of Print: The Scultori Engraving Workshop in Sixteenth-Century Mantua” (Johns Hopkins, S. Campbell)

Libina, Marsha, “Sebastiano del Piombo: From Venice to Rome and His Collaboration with Michelangelo” (Johns Hopkins, S. Campbell)

Lynch, April, “Spirituality of Beauty in the Art of Artemisia Gentileschi and Elisabetta Sirani” (Graduate Theological Union, A. Holder)

Magill, Kelley, “Reforming the Art of Martyrdom: The Exploration of the Catacombs and Early Christian Revival in Post-Tridentine Rome” (UT Austin, L. Waldman)

Mangone, Carolina, “Bernini/Michelangelo: Michelangelo as Exemplum in the Work and Biographies of Gianlorenzo Bernini” (Toronto, E. Levy)

Maratsos, Jessica, “Pontormo: The Body, the Soul, and Italian Evangelismo” (Columbia, D. Rosand)

McAuliffe, Michael, “Connoisseurship in the Twentieth Century: The János Scholz Collection of Italian Old Master Drawings—A Case Study” (Columbia, D. Rosand)

Martone-Dragani, Concetta, “Artistic Culture in Naples in the Early Seventeenth Century” (Temple, T. Cooper)

Maurer, Maria, “The Palazzo del Te and the Spaces of Masculinity in Sixteenth-Century Italy” (Indiana, G. Knox)

Maze, Daniel Wallace, “Gentile Bellini and Transformations in Fifteenth-Century Venetian Art” (UCLA, J. Woods-Marsden)

McColeman, Susanne, “Vasari, Invention, and Fantasy: Grotesques in the Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi” (Queen’s, Kingston, U. D’Elia)

Meier, Melissa J., “Cangiante and Shot Silk: Material Influence on Artistic Practice in Renaissance Italy” (Bryn Mawr, D. Cast)

Merrill, Elizabeth, “Francesco di Giorgio as Itinerant Architect” (Virginia, C. Brothers)

Minter, Erin Sutherland, “Michelangelo and Pope Paul III, 1534–49: Patronage, Collaboration, and Construction of Identity in Renaissance Rome” (Washington University, W. Wallace)

Moreton, Melissa “Scritto di bellissima lettera: Nuns’ Book Production in 15th and 16th-century Italy” (University of Iowa, C. Berman)

Morhart, Amanda M., “Black Africans and Female Protagonists in Italian Renaissance Painting” (Queen’s, Kingston, C. Hoeniger)

Moynihan, Kim-Ly, “Lombard Painting in the Late Renaissance: The Art and Theory of Description?” (Columbia, D. Rosand, D. Freedberg)

Murray, Colin, “Individuals and Collectives: Collaboration and Friendship in the Painting of Early Modern Venice” (Toronto, P. Sohm)

Napolitano, Elena, “Prospects of Statecraft: Urban Strategy and the Vision of French Nationhood in Rome, 1660–1700” (Toronto, E. Levy)

Nayyar, Reshma, “Visions of the Divine: Baciccio’s Frescoes at the Gesù in Rome” (Rutgers, C. Puglisi)

Nelson, Sean, “Jerusalem Lost: Crusade, Myth, and Historical Imagination in Grand Ducal Florence” (USC, S. Roberts)

Ng, Aimee, “Painting, Trauma, and the Sack of Rome” (Columbia, D. Rosand, D. Freedberg)

Nickel, Kirk, “Monstrous Histories: The Past and Its Likeness in the Painting of Moretto da Brescia, 1525–1554” (Pennsylvania, L. Silver)

O’Leary, Heather, “Viva Bacco e Viva Amore: Bacchic Imagery in the Renaissance” (Columbia, D. Rosand)

Olah, Iva, “Magic, Memory, and Mages: Civic Identity in the Florentine Picture Chronicle (1470–75)” (Chicago, R. Zorach)

Packard, Arianna, “Antiquarianism and the Creation of the Catafalque of Paul V” (Columbia, D. Rosand)

Parsons, Kimberly, “Under the Shadow of Florence: Sienese Art Production during Early Medici Rule” (Penn State, B. Curran)

Perkins, Elizabeth, “Antonello da Messina and the Independent Portrait in Fifteenth-Century Venice” (Columbia, D. Rosand)

Powell, Olivia, “The Choreographic Imagination in Renaissance Art” (Columbia, D. Rosand)

Proctor, Anne, “Vincenzo Danti at the Medici Court: Constructing Professional Identity in Late Renaissance Florence” (UT Austin, L. Waldman)

Purvis, Betsy Bennett, “Palpable Politics and Embodied Passions: Terracotta Tableau Sculpture in Italy, 1450–1550” (Toronto, P. Sohm)

Riggs, Marion, “Giuseppe Barberi (1746–1809): Architectural Narratives and Cultural Dynamics in Late Eighteenth-Century Rome” (Princeton, J. Pinto)

Rislow, Madeline, “Dynamic Doorways: Overdoor Sculpture in Renaissance Genoa” (Kansas, S. Cornelison)

Rocco, Patricia, “Maniera Devota/Mano Donnesca: Women and Visual Imagery during the Counter-Reformation in the Papal States, 1575–1675” (CUNY, J. Saslow)

Rossi, Nassim, “Depicting the Sultan: Conflict and Representation in Renaissance Portraits of the Other” (Columbia, D. Rosand)

Rutherglen, Susannah, “Cabinet Pictures of Renaissance Venice” (Princeton, P. Brown)

Schneider, Lindsey, “The Late Career of Pietro da Cortona and Roman Baroque Painting after 1650” (IFA/NYU, K. Christiansen, J. Brown)

Shay Millea, Mary, “Visualizing the Desired: The Petrarchan Lover Portrait in Renaissance Italy” (Rutgers, S. McHam)

Sheridan, Victoria, “Ornaments of Style in Venetian Baroque” (Toronto, P. Sohm)

Siemon, Julia, “Bronzino between the Republic and the Academy” (Columbia, D. Rosand)

Silva, Joseph, “Thuscorum et Ligurum Securitati: Cosimo I’s Visual Program for the Naval Knighthood of Saint Stephen in Florence and Pisa” (Brown, E. Lincoln)

Sizonenko, Tatiana, “Artists as Agents in Venice: Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation with the Mamluks, Constantinople, and Moscow, 1400–1500” (UC San Diego, J. Greenstein)

Sjøvoll, Therese, “Queen Christina of Sweden’s Musaeum: Collecting and Display in the Palazzo Riario-Corsini” (Columbia, D. Freedberg, D. Rosand)

Sliwka, Jennifer, “Domenico Beccafumi and the Politics of Devotion in Sixteenth-Century Siena” (Johns Hopkins, S. Campbell)

Sjøvoll, Therese, “Queen Christina of Sweden’s Musaeum: Collecting and Display in the Palazzo Riario-Corsini” (Columbia, D. Freedberg, D. Rosand)

Stacy, Christina, “Veri Ritratti: Pietro Longhi and Genre Painting in Eighteenth-Century Venice” (Princeton, P. Brown)

Stewart, Pamela, “Corpus Domini and Santissimo Sacramento: Imagining the Body of Christ in Cinquecento Lombardy” (Michigan, M. Holmes)

Sullivan, Kathleen, “Anticlassicism, Style, and Meaning in the Work of Girolamo Romanino, 1519–1540” (Rutgers, B. Paul)

Switzer, Sara, “Correggio and the Sacred Image” (Columbia, D. Rosand, D. Freedberg)

Taschian, Helen, “Naturalism and Libertinism in Seventeenth-Century Italian Painting” (UC Santa Barbara, R. Williams)

Therien, Devin, “‘Terribile Disegno’ and ‘Eroico Componimento’: Mattia Preti’s Artistic Practice and Its Reception in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Italy” (Queen’s, Kingston, S. Schütze)

Tom, Lisa Wuliang, “Negotiating Masculinities and Martial Identities in Early Modern Italian Portraiture” (Brown, E. Lincoln)

Tsoumis, Karine, “Family Portraits: Social Realities and Ideologies of Domestic Life in Early Modern Venice” (Toronto, P. Sohm)

Urban, Emily, “The Sala Bologna in the Vatican Palace: Art and Astronomy in Counter-Reformation Rome” (Rutgers, T. Marder)

Valiela, Julia, “Identity and Ideals: Problems in Sculptural Busts of Women in Renaissance Italy” (IFA/NYU, K. Weil-Garris Brandt)

Vranic, Ivana, “‘Thou Shalt Not’: Limits of Verisimilitude and Devotional Practices in Italian Terracotta Passion Groups (1450–1530)” (University of British Columbia, B. Wilson)

Walsh, Catherine, “Landscapes, Ecology, and the Figure in Giambologna’s Appennino” (Boston, J. Cranston)

Waters, Michael, “Materials, Materiality, and Spolia in Italian Renaissance Architecture: 1420–1540” (IFA/NYU, M. Trachtenberg)

Weller, Peter, “Alberti before Florence: Pre-Florentine Sources Informing the Vocabulary of Leon Battista Alberti’s ‘De pictura’” (UCLA, C. Villaseñor-Black)

Whittemore, Leila, “Theory, Practice, and the Architectural Imagination: Filarete’s Treatise on Architecture and Early Sforza Urbanism, 1450–1464” (Columbia, J. Connors)

Wolken, Christine, “A Profile of Women in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Women and Their Commemorative Medals” (Case Western Reserve, E. Olszewski)

Yeager-Crasselt, Lara, “Michael Sweerts and the Making of the Artist: Academic Ambitions between Brussels and Rome in the Seventeenth Century” (Maryland, College Park, A. Wheelock)

Yee Litt, Kori Lisa, “Lippo Vanni (fl. 1344–76): Between Wall and Page” (Columbia, D. Freedberg)

Yuen, Melissa, “Mattia Preti and Roman Baroque Painting, 1633–1653” (Rutgers, C. Puglisi)

Zarrillo, Taryn, “Artistic Patrimony and Cultural Politics in Seicento Venice” (Columbia, D. Rosand)

Eighteenth- / Nineteenth-Century Art

Bell, Andrea, “French Artist in Rome: An Examination of Eighteenth-Century Drawing Albums” (IFA/NYU, T. Crow)

Ferrari, Roberto C., “Beyond Polychromy: John Gibson, the Roman School of Sculpture, and the Modern Classical Body” (CUNY, P. Mainardi)

Goldman, Victoria Sears, “‘The Most Beautiful Punchinelli in the World’: A Comprehensive Study of the Punchinello Drawings of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo” (Princeton, T. DaCosta Kaufmann)

Hudak, Brittany, “British Art in the Venetian Mood: The Anglo-Venetian Genre Paintings of Luke Fildes and Henry Woods, 1875–1920” (Case Western Reserve, A. Helmreich)

Mann, Crawford Alexander III, “When in Rome: Italian Travel and the Pursuit of the Ideal Male Body in Antebellum American Art” (Yale, A. Nemerov)

Saunders, Beth, “Developing Italy: Photography, History, and National Identity during the Risorgimento, 1839–1855” (CUNY, A. Pelizzari)

Modern / Contemporary Art

Bedarida, Raffaele, “West of Rome: Reinventing Italy in the United States through Contemporary Art” (CUNY, E. Braun)

Bick, Tenley, “Capital and Rags: Michelangelo Pistoletto and Arte Povera in Turin, 1958–1972″ (UCLA, G. Baker)

Brungardt, Christina, “On the Fringe of Fascism: An Examination of the Relationship between Leftish Italian Futurists and the Russian Avant-Garde” (CUNY, E. Braun)

Cavallero, Janet, “Photography and the Creation and Control of the Masses in 1930s Fascist Italy” (Columbia, B. Buchloh)

Cozzi, Leslie, “‘Un sistema che cambia’: Art, Social Protest, and the Rise of Italian Feminism” (Virginia, H. Singerman)

Gamble, Antje K., “Italianità and Other Continuities between Fascist-Era and Post-War Modern Sculpture” (Michigan, A. Potts)

Greenhough, Alexander, “We Are All Alone: Solitude and the Problem of Subjectivity in Italian and French Cinema of the 1950s and ‘60s” (Stanford, P. Levi)

Griffiths, Jennifer, “Women Painters of Italian Futurism” (Bryn Mawr, D. Cast, R. Ricci)

Kaplan, Lauren, “Crossing the Atlantic: Italians in Argentina, 1916–1946” (CUNY, E. Braun)

Manson, Andrew, “Architecture, Archaeology, and Urbanism in ‘Roma Mussolinea’: The Via dell’Impero and the Palazzo del Littorio Competition” (Columbia, N. Kampen, M. McLeod)

Mather, David, “Pictorial Dynamism: A Model of Mass Agency in Italian Futurism, 1909–1918” (UC San Diego, N. Bryson, J. Welchman)

Mecugni, Anna, “A Voyage of Identities: Luigi Ontani and the Postmodern Question in 1970s Italy” (CUNY, R. Golan)

Morash, Emily Chase, “Images of the Italian Interior: Lo Stile and Domestic Architecture, 1941–1947” (Brown, D. Neumann)

Rahimi, Shaparak, “Humanizing Modernism: Architecture and the City at the Triennale in Postwar Milan” (Columbia, B. Bergdoll)