Thesis: ‘Lorenzo Monaco and the Missal of Cardinal Acciaiuoli: Patronage, Production and the Painter-Illuminators of Early Renaissance Florence’
Supervised by: Prof. Joanna Cannon and Scott Nethersole
Funded by: The Guilford Foundation; Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation; Courtauld Scholarships
Education
- 2014-present, PhD Candidate, The Courtauld Institute of Art
- 2012-2013, MA in History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Funded by: Broad Art Foundation and Courtauld Scholarships
Special option: ‘Artists and Friars: the Renewal of Painting in Assisi and Siena in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries’ - 2000-2003, MA and Certificate of Advanced Study in Art Conservation, SUNY Buffalo State College
Funded by: Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship and SUNY Research Foundation Scholarship - 1995-1996, PG Certificate (Corso di Perfezionamento), University of Florence
Subject: La scienza per la conservazione dei beni culturali - 1995-1996, PG Diploma in Art Conservation, SACI, Florence
Funded by: Jules Maidoff Scholarship - 1988-1992, BA in Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute
Major subject: Printmaking
Teaching
- 2019 Autumn term, Graduate Teaching Assistant, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Foundations Course Lectures (Classical and Byzantine Art, The Middle Ages, Renaissance Art, Early Modern China, European Architecture)
- 2008-2014, Adjunct Faculty/Lecturer, American University of Rome
Lecturer and instructor of undergraduate courses on the History of Art and the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage - 2005-2006, Course Coordinator and Academic Advisor to the Conservation Department, Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute, Tuscania
- 2003-2004, Adjunct Faculty, SACI, Florence
Thesis Advisor and Lecturer for the Post-Baccalaureate program in Art Conservation
Professional experience
Print Room Assistant (curatorial support), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2017-2018
Contract Paintings Conservator, Katherine Ara Limited, London, 2010, 2011
Samuel H. Kress Conservation Fellow, Medieval and Renaissance Galleries Project, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2006-2007
Associate Paintings Conservator, Steven Prins and Company, Santa Fe, 1999-2000, 2002,2004, 2005, 2006
Collections Docent for the Sir Harold Acton Collection, Villa La Pietra, New York University, Florence, 2004-2005
Contract Paintings Conservator, Matteo Rossi Doria/Centro di Restauro Studio Barbabianca, Rome, 2004-2005
Research, Special Collections and Archives, Utah State University (conducted in Florence), 2004
Graduate Intern in Paintings Conservation, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 2002-2003
Research interests
- Technical art history
- Italian art between 1280-1480
- Artistic networks
- Historic painting practices
- Illuminated manuscript production
- Ecclesiastical and monastic patronage
- Materials use and relationships (particularly relationships between the techniques of painting, manuscript illumination, metalwork, stained glass, leatherwork, embroidery)
Conference papers
- ‘The cartolai connection: assessing the artistic networks of Florentine manuscript production at the turn of the fifteenth century’, Annual Postgraduate Symposium, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 8-9 October 2020
- ‘Networks and Allegiances: a brief look at the painter-illuminators of Sant’Egidio c. 1420’, Giotto’s Circle, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 3 June 2019
- Session chair, ‘Workshops and Artistic Methods’ at Conversing and Connecting Over Time, Annual Postgraduate Symposium, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 16 May 2019
- ‘A brief study of the painter-illuminators at Sant’Egidio c.1420’ at New Dialogues in Art History, The Warburg Institute, London, 27 February 2019
- Session chair, The Colors of Paradise: Painting Miniatures at Italian Convents, ca. 1300-1700, 5th Annual Jane Fortune Conference, co-organized by the Medici Archive Project and the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, Biblioteca di San Marco, Florence, 11-12 October 2018
- ‘Santa Maria degli Angeli or not? Considering Florentine artistic networks and the painter-illuminators of Fitzwilliam MS 30’ at Medieval Collaborations, 22nd Annual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 4 February 2017
- ‘Making the Cardinal’s Missal: Looking anew at the Circle of Lorenzo Monaco and the Illuminators of Fitzwilliam MS 30’ at MANUSCRIPTS in the MAKING: Art and Science, The Fitzwilliam Museum and Departments of Chemistry and History of Art, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 8-10 December 2016
- ‘Lorenzo Monaco and the Missal of Cardinal Acciaiuoli: Patronage, Production and the Painter-Illuminators of Early Renaissance Florence. A work in progress.’ at Leuven-Lille-London study group Annual Conference, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 1 April 2015
- Session chair, Movement in Medieval Art and Architecture, 20th Annual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 7 February 2015
- ‘Gold, Glass and Light: The Franciscan vision in representations of the stigmata’ at the Association of Art Historians 40th Annual Conference, Royal College of Art, London, 10-12 April 2014
- ‘Accounting for Taste: Retaining an Historic Restoration from a Sienese Accounts Book’ at the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 36th Annual Meeting, Denver CO, 21-24 April 2008
- ‘Concepts of authenticity as related to a 15th century Florentine Cassone panel in the V&A Museum’ at Art, Conservation and Authenticities: Materials, Concept, Context, 2nd Annual Conference, ICON Scotland and University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 12-14 September 2007
Publications
- ‘Making the Cardinal’s Missal: Looking anew at the Circle of Lorenzo Monaco and the Illuminators of Fitzwilliam MS 30’, in Manuscripts in the Making: Art and Science, edited by S. Panayotova and P. Ricciardi. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2017
- ‘Gold, Glass and Light: The Franciscan vision in representations of the stigmata’, in Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art, edited by C. Duckworth and A. Sassin. Farnham: Ashgate, 2017
- ‘Concepts of authenticity as related to a 15th century Florentine cassone panel in the V&A Museum’ in Art, Conservation and Authenticities: Material, Concept, Context, edited by E. Hermens and T. Fisk. London: Archetype Publications, 2009
- ‘Accounting for Taste: Retaining an Historic Restoration from a Sienese Accounts Book’, AIC Paintings Group 36th Annual Meeting post-prints, Denver, 2009
- ‘Renaissance Painted Cassoni’ , V&A Conservation Journal, No. 56, Spring 2008
- ‘The Not So Secret Formulas of Jacques Maroger: An Investigation of the Manufacture and Use of Maroger Mediums’, ANAGPIC Conference post-prints, Cambridge, 2004