Grantees
Venetian Research Program – British & Commonwealth
2023
Cooke, Philip
The Memory of the Resistance in the Veneto
Correia Morton, Alice
The Cornaro Family - A Study of Venetian Nobility in the Sixteenth Century Through the Lens of Romanitas
Dorigatti, Marco
Raffaele Valcieco's 'Quinto libro', the voice of a Veronese poet rescued from oblivion
Dubois, Taryn
Mobilities of Modernity: dance and gymnastics in fin-de-siècle Venice
Gigante, Federica
A collection of Islamic scientific instruments in Verona: the seventeenth-century museum of Ludovico Moscardo
Graheli, Shanti
Printing after the plague: Aldine editions (1575-1598) in Venetian libraries
Johnson, Rebecca
Signaling Saintly Presence: Constructing Identity in fourteenth-sixteenth century Dalmatia
Lee, Alexandra
The Impact of Epidemic Disease on the Expression of Religious Devotion in Padua 1340-1400
McFarland, Jennifer
Old age in seventeenth-century Venice and the Terraferma
Muijtjens, Philip
In the Public Eye: Funerary Monuments as Visual Statements in Early-Quattrocento Padua
Munn, Nicholas
Ruling Masculinity: Politics and Gender in Fifteenth-Century Venice
Rossi, Elena
The Experience of Female Relatives in the Intellectual Networks of Bologna and Padua
Roussos, Dimitrios
The Wheels of Lifetime: Fragments of Time Awareness Between Byzantium and Venice
Sims, William
Representations of Crisis in Il Gazzettino di Venezia
Webb, Eleanor
Between Studium and Accademia: Intellectual Culture in Early Modern Italy
2022
Alambritis, Maria
From “Byzantinizing Madonneri” to “spectacular pageantry”: the contributions and influence of Evelyn Sandberg Vavalà on the art history and connoisseurship of early Venetian art.
Azzarello, Stephanie
Inside-Out(sider): Iconography, art, and the creation of the ‘Outsider’ in early fifteenth-century Venice
Correia Morton, Alice
The Cornaro Family - A Study of Venetian Nobility in the Sixteenth Century Through the Lens of Romanitas
Healy, Rachel
Portraits of Giorgio Cornaro and his Heirs: Resolving issues of Identity, Authorship and Patronage in Renaissance Venice and Beyond
Iordanou, Ioanna
Hide or Leak? The Culture of Secrecy in the Arsenal of Late Renaissance Venice
Lewis, Grant
Doges, Dynasties and Decoration: the Patronage of the Loredan family in Renaissance Venice (c. 1480-1540)
Marinetti, Cristina
Resisting Translation: citizen theatre, heritage and language relations in contemporary Venice.
Osborne, Toby
Venice and the politics of early modern Italy.
Pavlova, Maria
Hassan Çavuş, Selim II and the Story of the Venetian Sultana
2021
Baker-Bates, Piers
Between Venice and Spain: Copies and Versions of Sixteenth-Century Venetian Works of Art
Carotenuto, Nicola
The Merchants of Venice: the Multifaceted Relationship Between Trade, Traders, and Institutions in Late Medieval Venice
Inì, Marina
Non-Catholic Burial Grounds: Spaces of Diversity in the Early Modern Adriatic
Lizzul, Giorgio
Venetian Chronicles and Political Economy
Masiero, Francesca
Literacy and Learning in Latin and Abacus Schools in Verona (1405-1509)
McCarthy, Alexa
Blue Paper in Amsterdam and the Italian Tradition
Moretti, Laura
The Houses of Collectors and Patrons of the Arts in 16th-century Venice: The Case of Leonardo Mocenigo (1523-75)
Seifert, Christian
John Baptist Jackson: A British Printmaker in Eighteenth-Century Venice
Shadrina, Elena
A City in Parchment: Documentary Culture in Venice (950-1150)
Sottilotta, Elena
The Collection of Folklore in Veneto in the Post-Unification Period: The Case of Angela Nardo Cibele (1850-1938)
Zanon, Giulia
New devotions in early modern Venice: the cult of San Francesco di Paola and the Counter-Reformation
2020
Delmedico, Sara
Power, Wealth, and Kinship in Venice: The Mocenigos di San Stae from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Ellis, Ariana
Curtain Call: The Performative Sensory-Scape of Public Execution in England and Italy between 1400-1600
Farrell, Zoe
German immigrants and the effect of transalpine cultural exchange in the Venetian terraferma during the Renaissance
Morra, Eloisa
Old Masters, Political Perspectives. Nino Barbantini’s Anti-Fascist Reading of Renaissance Venetian Painting
Perse, Anya
Satire and the Venetian Erotic Print, 1550 - 1620
Scheidt, Luise
The Representation of Battles and War in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio after 1577
Spencer, Sarah
The Impact of the Venetian Republic on the piazze of its subject towns on the Terraferma and the Stato da Màr
Zanon, Giulia
New devotions in early modern Venice: the cult of San Francesco di Paola and the Counter-Reformation
2019
Bamji, Alexandra
Ephemeral print and religious experience in early modern Venice
Bettella, Patrizia
Academic Speeches and other Works in Italian by Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia
Carnevali, Rebecca
The afterlife of official ephemera. Venetian parti from broadsheets to pamphlets, and their use in the political and book sphere of Venice, 1600s-1630s
Davies, Eloise
The Venetian connection in early seventeenth-century England
Falconer, Ellen
Alfredo Casella’s Piano Music: understanding Italian Modernism through the music of pianist-composer Alfredo Casella.
Payne, Elinor
The prosody and phonetics of Venetian dialect and regional Italian
Robarts, Julie
Barbara Stozzi in the debates over the Unisoni, a philological and textual analysis
Scheidt, Luise
Battles on a Ceiling. The Ceiling Paintings in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio and the Representation of Battle in Cinquecento Venice
2018
Armstrong, Pamela
Merchants of Venice at Thebes and Euripos from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries
Baker-Bates, Piers
Between Venice and Spain: Copies and Versions of Sixteenth-Century Venetian Works of Art
Bernocchi, Ilaria
Venetian Heroic Portraits c. 1500-1550: Patrician Self-Fashioning and Religious Exempla
Halikowski Smith, Stefan
Faustino Brascuglia’s 'Descrizione corografica, topografica, & iconografica della provinzia di Dalmazia e stati confinanti' (1745) as tool of imperial knowledge
Markou, Georgios E.
In the footsteps of Giorgione
Pacini, Benedetta
Navigating the Canals: Making and Moving Venetian Renaissance Paintings
Prideaux, Tamsin
Economic and Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Venice: The Cinque Savi alla Mercanzia and control of Immigrant groups, 1541-1700.
Travers, Katherine
Occitan Lyric in the Veneto: Historicizing the "voce femminile"
Verdigel, Genevieve
Benedetto and Bartolomeo Montagna and the Role of the Graphic Arts in Vicenza, c.1480–1520
Zanon, Giulia
Citizenship, Scuole Grandi and Artistic Patronage in Early Modern Venice