This project was inspired in a fundamental way by an interest in the function of Italian Renaissance portraiture. The essential question is concerned with the expanded functional range of portraiture within the context of early modern cross-cultural engagement between traditiona…
"12" Result
Sort By:
This dissertation aims to revive the concept of geography in the study of international relations. I argue for the continued importance of geography in shaping the grand strategy of states. Specifically, I consider three geographical features: location of resources, layout of tr…
This dissertation reconstructs the original form and sixteenth-century decoration of the lost Venetian church of Santa Maria Assunta dei Crociferi, destroyed after the suppression of the Crociferi in 1656 to make way for the present church of the Gesuiti. The destruction of the …
Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871-1949) was a Spanish-born polymath who, though mostly remembered for his historically inspired fashion designs, was first trained as a painter in Paris and would become a lighting and set designer, photographer, costume designer, and inventor. Work…
When Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453, a group of Venetian humanists, who were both classical scholars and professional politicians, advocated a strong response. Most Venetian politicians, however, preferred to attempt to construct a Christian alliance that could collect…
The dissertation examines the way Venetian painters represented Alexandria in the Silk Weavers' Guild and Scuola Grande di San Marco life of St. Mark painting cycles commissioned from 1496 until 1534. These images such as Gentile Bellini's St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria reveal…
This dissertation focuses on the trade of antique objects imported from the eastern Mediterranean into Italy during the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. Through a close examination of archival and visual sources, including drawings, letters, travel accounts, and inventorie…
My dissertation examines how in the fourteenth century, the rival republics of Pisa, Venice, and Genoa each commissioned major civic monuments that featured Old Testament and cartographic references as well as local saints, traditions, and themes. I argue that their complex prog…
The historiography of the Fourth Crusade has neglected long-term macroeconomic developments and its influence on the Fourth Crusade within the Byzantine Empire and the Italian states of Venice, Pisa, and Genoa. It is well-established that the Venetians rerouted the crusading for…
Although Baldassare Galuppi was arguably the best known and most successful Italian composer of the eighteenth century, his name, his history, and his works have been relinquished to the periphery of the historiographical narrative. While Galuppi's masses, operas, and solo motet…
Venetian painter Tiziano Vecellio, more commonly referred to as Titian, created a cycle of mythological paintings based on scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses for King Philip II of Spain. These works are often viewed through an eroticized lens due to this inclusion of nude mortals …