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Renaissance/Baroque Art
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2010

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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)

Ambler, William, “The Portrait Workshop at the Court of Philip III of Spain (1598–1621)” (IFA/NYU, J. Brown)

Amott, David. “Sanctifying Segregation: The Colonial Cathedral and Community of Mariana, Minas Gerais” (Delaware, M. Domínguez Torres)

Anderson, Carrie, “Johan Maurits’s Brazilian Collection: The Role of Ethnographic Gifts in Colonial Discourse” (Boston, M. Zell)

Arizzoli, Louise, “Allegories of the Four Continents in the Collection of James Hazen Hyde” (Indiana, G. Knox)

Aube, Christina, “Michel de Marolles and the Rise of Printmaking in the Grand Siècle” (Delaware, D. Stone)

Baadj, Nadia, “‘Monstrous Creatures and Diverse Strange Things’: The Curious Art of Jan van Kessel I” (Michigan, C. Brusati)

Backus, Irene, “Imaging Asia: 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)

Baines, Lorena, “Nicolaes de Bruyn and the Art of the Professional Engraver” (Delaware, P. Chapman)

Baker, Katherine Eve, “Luxury Arts and Artisans in Paris, 1490–1515: The Urban Context of Art Production” (Virginia, L. Goedde)

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

Bass, Marisa, “The Venus of Zeeland: Jan Gossart and the Netherlandish Revival of Antiquity” (Harvard, H. van der Velden)

Bilak, Donna, “Politics, Plague, and Alchemy: The Life and Times of John Allin” (Bard Graduate Center, P. Miller)

Bissett, Tara, “The Triumphal Arch Portal and the Fiction of Authority in Sixteenth-Century France” (Toronto, E. M. Kavaler)

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

Boffa, David, “Artistic Identity Set in Stone: Sculptors’ Signatures in Italy, ca. 1250–1550” (Rutgers, S. McHam)

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

Boutin, Lisa, “Displaying Identity in the Mantuan Court: The Majolica Services of Isabella d’Este and Federico II Gonzaga” (UCLA, J. Woods-Marsden)

Boychuk, Joan, “Between Naturalia and Artificialia: Joris Hoefnagel and the Early Modern Court” (University of British Columbia, B. Wilson)

Bracken, William, “Rembrandt in the 1630s: Dialogues and Competitive Environment” (IFA/NYU, E. J. Sluijter, M. Westermann)

Brisman, Shira, “Briefkultur: Art and the Epistolary Mode of Address in the Age of Albrecht Dürer” (Yale, C. Wood)

Brown, Michael, “Portraiture in New Spain, 1600–1800: Painters, Patrons, and Politics in Viceregal Mexico” (IFA/NYU, J. Brown)

Brown, Sara, “Images of Devotion: Calvinist Church Interior Paintings in the Dutch Republic” (Delaware, P. Chapman)

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

Bunn, Steven, “Scaldis’s Cornucopia: The Foundation of the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp the Legacy of Antwerp’s Pictorial Arts after Rubens” (University of Washington, C. Goettler)

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)

Byron, David, “The Visual and Social Strategies of German Propaganda Broadsheets, 1608–1621” (Yale, C. Wood)

Cantor, Sarah “Landscape Painting in the Circle of Nicolas Poussin” (Maryland, College Park, A. Colantuono)

Chehab, Krystel, “The Politics of Realism: Still Life and Polychrome Sculpture in Seventeenth-Century Spain” (University of British Columbia, B. Wilson)

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

Churchill, Derek, “Replication in the Early Netherlandish Tradition: Dieric Bouts and His Copyists” (Yale, C. Wood)

Ciejka, Jason, “Rare Harmony: The Architecture and Music of Carlo Rainaldi (1611–1691)” (Emory, S. McPhee)

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

Cohen, Ananda, “Mural Painting and Social Change in the Colonial Andes, 1626–1830” (CUNY, E. Quiñones-Keber)

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)

Cook, Kelly D., “Sex and Stones: Grotesques as Form and Space in Early Modern France” (Cornell, C. Lazzaro)

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)

Coutré, Jacquelyn, “Jan Lievens, Ambition, ‘Influence’ and Originality in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands” (IFA/NYU, M. Westermann)

Cowen, Dana, “Albrecht Dürer’s Journey to the Netherlands, 1520–1521: A Reconsideration of Past Scholarship and the Importance of Antwerp to the Artist’s Late Work” (Case Western Reserve, C. Scallen)

Cuenot, Nicole, “The Force of Flowers: Bringing the Outdoors in at Versailles” (Columbia, D. Freedberg)

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

Daiman, Marina, “Copying, Inventing, and Recycling in Rubens” (IFA/NYU, M. Westermann)

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

Dilbeck, Gwynne A., “Opening the Paradise Doors: Function and the Iconographical Program of Ghiberti’s Bronze Doors” (Iowa, W. Tomasini)

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)

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)

Elston, Ashley, “Storing Sanctity: Sacristy Reliquary Cupboards in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy” (Kansas, S. Cornelison)

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

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

Finocchio, Ross, “Henry Clay Frick, the Collector” (IFA/NYU, J. Brown)

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)

Fowler, Caroline, “Before Objects: Bodies and Images in the Drawing Practice of Abraham Bloemaert (1566–1651)” (Princeton, C. Heuer)

Gardonio-Foat, Casey, “Seventeenth-Century Professional Women Artists in Spain and Portugal” (IFA/NYU, J. Brown)

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

Geschwind, Rachel, “Saving Grace/Saving Face: Magdalene Imagery and Prostitution Reform in Venice and Rome, 1500–1700” (Case Western Reserve, E. Olszewski)

Giviskos, Christine, “Abraham Bosse and the Fine Art of Printmaking” (IFA/NYU, M. Westermann)

Glass, Robert, “Filarete at the Papal Court: Sculpture, Ceremony, and the Antique in Early Renaissance Rome” (Princeton, P. Brown, L. Barkan, J. Pinto)

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

Glover, Angela, “The Early Modern Choir Stall in Northern Europe: A Hidden Site of Religious, Political and Artistic Display” (Toronto, E. M. Kavaler)

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

Greist, Alexandra, “Learning to Draw, Drawing to Learn: Italian Printed Drawing Books, 1600–1760” (Pennsylvania, M. Cole)

Groentjes, Mirjam, “Visual Typology and the Culture of Biblical Reading in the Low Countries, 1550–1600” (Emory, W. Melion)

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

Hammerschmidt, Jennifer, “Towards a New Medieval Subjectivity: Rogier van der Weyden and the Art of the Carthusians” (UC Santa Barbara, M. Meadow)

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

Harper, Katherine, “New Light on Hendrick Goudt: Artist and Nobleman” (Boston, M. Zell)

Hecker-Silva, Joanna, “Outside Looking in: Francisco de Holanda and the Margins of Renaissance Art” (IFA/NYU, A. Nagel)

Heinrichs, Johanna, “Between City and Country: The Residential Suburb in Genoa and the Veneto, 1545–1575” (Princeton, J. Pinto)

Herrin, Amanda, “Picturing Origins: Visual Exegesis in Northern European Art from Bosch to Brueghel” (IFA/NYU, M. Westermann)

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

Hoffman, Jessica L., “Adriaen van Ostade’s Festive Peasants” (Maryland, College Park, A. Wheelock)

Horacek, Ivana, “Objects of ‘Science’/Objects of ‘Art’: Gift Exchange and Collecting at the Court of Rudolf II” (University of British Columbia, B. Wilson)

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

Huckins, Pamela, “Art and Faith on the Frontier: Painting and Sculpture in the Alta California Missions, Native American Artisans, and European Designs” (IFA/NYU, J. Brown)

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

Hung, Karen, “The Master of the Parallel Folds: Hans Thoman of Memmingen and the Sculptors of Upper Swabia (1500–1550)” (IFA/NYU, C. Eisler)

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)

Ingersoll, Catharine, “Hans Wertinger in Context: Art, Politics, and Humanism at the Court of Ludwig X, Duke of Bavaria” (UT Austin, J. Chipps Smith)

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)

Jakobiec, Katarzyna, “Zamosc as ‘Città ideale’: Architecture and the Mechanics of Building in Early Modern Poland” (Toronto, C. Anderson)

Johnson, Rachel, “Suburban Bruegel: Chorography and Rhetoric in Pieter Bruegel’s Series of the Months” (UC Santa Barbara, M. Meadow)

Jones, Tanja, “Pisanello’s Medals for Ludovico Gonzaga of Mantua: Dynasty, the Relic of the Holy Blood, and Crusade” (Florida State, J. Freiberg)

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)

Kehoe, Marsely, “Dutching at Home and Abroad: Dutch Trade and Manufacture of Foreign Materials and Landscapes in the Golden Age” (Wisconsin, Madison, J. Casid)

Kelly, Jessen, “Renaissance Futures: Chance, Prediction, and Play in Northern European Visual Culture, ca. 1480–1550” (UC Berkeley, E. Honig)

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)

Korte, Cheryl, “Polychromed Quattrocento Sculpture in Florence” (IFA/NYU, C. Eisler)

Lamsechi, Guita, “Beyond the Frame: Images of Vegetal Nature across the Arts in Northern Renaissance Europe” (Toronto, E. M. Kavaler)

Leaper, Laura, “Fray Diego de Valadés, Rhetorica Christiana: Forming an Image of New Spain” (IFA/NYU, J. Brown)

Lentz, Edwin, “Imaging Knowledge in the Art of Breugel and Ortelius” (UT Austin, J. Chipps Smith)

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)

Leyva-Gutierrez, Niria, “Fernandez de Santa Cruz y Sahagun: Prelate and Patron of Pueblo in Seventeenth Century” (IFA/NYU, J. Brown)

Liu, Chen, “The Formation of the Architect in Early Modern Italy” (Princeton, J. Pinto)

Long, Rebecca, “Bartolomé Carducho and Italian Artists at the Spanish Court, 1580–1621” (IFA/NYU, J. Brown)

Lyon, J. Vanessa, “Staging Catholic Triumph in Habsburg Madrid: Titian, Rubens, Velázquez, and the Spanish Taste for Allegory, 1555–1640” (UC Berkeley, E. Honig)

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)

Martin, Annabeth, “The Religious Works of Lorenzo Costa, Painter to the Bentivoglio” (IFA/NYU, K. Weil-Garris Brandt)

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)

May, Rose Marie, “The Church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli and the Formation of Spanish Identity in Sixteenth-Century Rome” (Temple, M. Hall)

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

McCusker, Alisa, “Social History, Subjectivity, and Self-Fashioning in Hans Holbein the Elder’s Portrait Drawings” (UT Austin, J. Chipps Smith)

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

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

Moore, Kathryn, “Italian Copies of Holy Land Architecture: The Illustrated Versions of Niccolo da Poggibonsi Libro d’Oltrunare” (IFA/NYU, M. Trachtenberg, B. Flood)

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

Muckart, Heather, “Framing the Martyrs: Protestant Print and Portraiture in the English Wars of Religion” (University of British Columbia, B. Wilson)

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

Murray, Xiomra, “Before the ‘Mellon Gallery’: Toward an American National Gallery of Art, 1816–1937” (IFA/NYU, C. Eisler)

Nabi, Elizabeth McMahon, “Fra Bartolomeo’s Maniera: Painting and Devotion in Early Sixteenth Century-Florence” (Virginia, F. Fiorani)

Napolitano, Elena Cristina, “Come una Cittadella: 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, Jennifer, “Talismans of Art and the Combinatoric Mode in Northern Europe, 1510–1555” (Yale, C. Wood)

Neumann, Elisabeth, “Imagining European Community: Continental Allegories in the Netherlands, 1560–1600” (Toronto, E. M. Kavaler)

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

Nolin, Heather, “Political Authority and Religious Reform: Artistic Commissions at San Giorgio in Braida, Verona, 1426–1668” (Rutgers, S. McHam)

Nygren, Christopher J., “Impossible Icons: Titian’s Art and the Tradition of Christian Images” (Johns Hopkins, S. Campbell)

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

Onafuwa, Obayemi, “Bruegel’s Vernacular Bodies” (Columbia, D. Freedberg, K. Moxey)

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

Olson-Rudenko, Jennifer, “Francisco de Zurbarán’s Paintings for the Calced and Discalced Mercedarians in Seville” (Penn State, B. Curran)

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

Packer, Lelia, “Mimetic Media: Imitation and Illusionism in the Graphic Art of the Netherlands, 1580–1620” (IFA/NYU, M. Westermann)

Packer, Michelle, “Aenschouwer, siet hoe alle dingh verkeeret! Envisioning Change in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Cityscape” (UC Santa Barbara, A. Adams)

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)

Porthé, Rainbow A., “Planctus Provinciae: Arts of Mourning in Fifteenth-Century Provence” (Chicago, R. Zorach)

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

Proctor, Anne, “Vincenzo Danti as Artist-Courtier to the Medici” (UT Austin, L. Waldman)

Prottas, Nathaniel, “The Crisis of the Image: Self-Aware Image Making and the Archaistic Impulse in Rhenish Art, 1460–1515” (Pennsylvania, L. Silver)

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

Reed Frederick, Amy, “Rembrandt’s Etched Sketches and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture” (Case Western Reserve, C. Scallen)

Remond, Jaya, “The Kunstbüchlein: Transmitting Artistic Know-How in Renaissance Germany” (Harvard, J. Koerner)

Rife, Ellen O’Neil, “The Exotic Gift and the Art of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic” (Kansas, L. Stone-Ferrier)

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)

Rodriguez-Negron, Iraida, “Earthly Goddesses: Portraits of Catholic Queens in the Golden Age” (IFA/NYU, J. Brown)

Roman, Dulce, “Rubens and the Emergence of High Baroque Style in Spanish Painting” (Columbia, D. Freedberg)

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

Rudolphi, Adam, “Ornament and Amplification in Painted Vaults of the Later Renaissance” (Maryland, College Park, A. Colantuono)

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

Ryu, Sara, “Made by Human Hands: Authorship, Agency, and the Colonial Artifact in New Spain” (Yale, C. Wood)

Sakai, Jennifer, “Amsterdam in Ruins: Counternarrative and the Representation of Urban Space, 1648–1700” (UC Berkeley, E. Honig, D. Grimaldo Grigsby)

Scappini, Chiara, “History, Preservation, and Reconstruction in Siena: The Fonte Gaia from Renaissance to Modern Times” (Rutgers, T. Marder)

Schmid, Vanessa, “Portraiture and Community in Amsterdam, 1650–1672” (IFA/NYU, E-H. Begemann, M. Westermann)

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

Shamos, Geoffrey, “Fleshed Out: Serial Personification in Netherlandish Engraving, 1548–1600” (Pennsylvania, L. Silver)

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)

Shields, Rebecca, “The Space Between: Politics and Urban Development in Early Seventeenth-Century London” (Rutgers, T. Marder)

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)

Smithers, Tamara, “Memorializing the Masters and Celebrating le Tre Arti del Disegmo: Late Italian Renaissance Funerary Monuments Honoring Artists and the Arts” (Temple, M. Hall)

Spratt, Emily, “Byzantium Not Forgotten: Constructing the Artistic and Cultural Legacy of an Empire between East and West in the Early Modern Period” (Princeton, P. Brown)

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)

Stone, Linda Gail, “The Devil’s Women: Witches in Early Modern Art” (Toronto, E. M. Kavaler)

Swanson, Susan, “The Work of the Magi: Adoration Imagery and Visions of Globalization in Early Modern Europe” (Minnesota, M. Gaudio)

Swartwood, Anna, “‘Singular Skill and Beauty’: Antonello da Messina between North and South” (Princeton, P. Brown)

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)

Tita, Silvia, “Forging History: Visual Treatises on the Donation of Constantine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries” (Michigan, M. Holmes, T. Willette)

Tokumitsu, Miya, “The Sculpture of Leonhard Kern (1588–1662)” (Pennsylvania, L. Silver)

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

Treanor, Virginia, “Amalia van Solms and the Formation of the Stadhouder’s Art Collection, 1625–1675” (Maryland, College Park, A. Wheelock)

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

Turel, Noa, “Life to Likeness: Painting and Spectacle Au Vif in the Burgundian State” (UC Santa Barbara, M. Meadow)

Uchacz, Tianna, “Dialogue and Dialect in Netherlandish History Painting, ca. 1540–1580” (Toronto, E. M. Kavaler)

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)

Van Putten, Jasper, “A Cosmography of Exchange: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia” (Harvard, J. Koerner)

Veith, Jessica, “Jan de Braij in Perspective” (IFA/NYU, M. Westermann)

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

Vuagniaux, Anne, “Luxury and Loyalty: Anne de Montmorency as Patron of the Arts” (CUNY, J. Saslow)

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

Warren, Maureen, “Politics, Punishment, and Prestige: Images of Dutch Republican Regents, 1619–1672” (Northwestern, C. Swan)

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

Watkins, Catherine, “Rembrandt’s 1654 Life of Christ Prints: Experimentation, Tradition, and the Question of Series” (Case Western Reserve, C. Scallen)

Weiss, Jessica, “Juan de Flandes and the Commoditization of Style in Isabelline Spain” (UT Austin, J. Chipps Smith)

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)

Wilkins, Sarah, “She Loved More Ardently Than the Rest: The Magdalen Cycles of Late Duecento and Trecento Italy” (Rutgers, S. McHam)

Wille, Angelique, “Original and Copy in the Production of Fifteenth-Century Flemish Devotional Paintings” (Bryn Mawr, C. Hertel)

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)

Yerkes, Carolyn, “The Paradox of Precision: Architectural Drawing between Ancients and Moderns” (Columbia, H. Ballon)

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

Zillman, Molly, “Magdalene van de Passe, Geertruydt Roghman, and the Example of Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Female Printmakers” (Delaware, P. Chapman)

Zukerman, Laura, “Pages of Memory: Paper Travel in Renaissance Europe, 1480–1600” (Princeton, P. Brown)