Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Art
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2016

Show completed dissertations

Acosta, Taylor J., “Between the ‘Real’ and the ‘Ideal’: Realism, Historicism, and Jules Breton’s Inflected Rural Vision” (Minnesota, G. Weisberg)

Adam, Edina, “Jacopo Ligozzi ‘Come Forestiero’ and the Notion of Foreignness in his Art” (IFA/NYU, P. Rubin)

Albinsky, Kira Maye, “Art, Ritual, and Reform: The Archconfraternity of the Holy Crucifix of San Marcello in Rome” (Rutgers, C. Puglisi)

An, Christina, “Art Beyond Price or Place: Vermeer, Asia, and the Poetics of Painting” (Boston, M. Zell)

Andersen, Lisa, “Courtly Space and Its Translations at Fontainebleau and Beyond” (University of British Columbia, B. Wilson)

Baker, Devon, “Re-Centering the Renaissance Print: Printmaking and Artistic Exchange in Milan, ca. 1480–1530” (Temple, A.West)

Bartolome, Ramona Isabel, “Portraits of the Sun King: Examining the Creation, Reception, and Afterlife of Bernini’s Portrait of Louis XIV” (Rutgers, T. Marder)

Baseggio Omiccioli, Eveline, “Patronage, Politics, and Humanism: Andrea Riccio’s Reliefs for the Altar of the True Cross in Santa Maria dei Servi, Venice” (Rutgers, S. McHam)

Bell, Margaret,“Healing Walls: Visualizing Bodily and Social Care in the Pelligrinaio Frescoes of the Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala in Siena” (UC Santa Barbara, R. Williams)

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

Bellucci, Matteo, “Pietro Dura/Parchin Kari: Mediations between Florence and Mughal India” (CUNY, M. Aitken)

Ben, Rebecca, “The Early Reception of Leonardo da Vinci in Spain” (Princeton, T. DaCosta Kaufmann)

Benjamin, Aliza M., “From One Emperor to Another: Moctezuma, Charles V, and the Circulation of Aztec Art and Artifacts in Hapsburg Europe” (Temple, A. West, T. Cooper)

Berkowitz, Sara, “Ambiguous Bodies: Gender Non-Conformity and Bodily Transformation in Early Modern Italian Art” (Maryland, College Park, A. Colantuono)

Bernick, Elizabeth, “Drawing Connections: Cesare da Sesto’s Sketchbook and the Production of Style” (Johns Hopkins, S. Campbell)

Bissett, Tara, “The Idea of Architecture in Sixteenth-Century France” (Toronto, E.M. Kavaler)

Blocksom, Megan, “Images of Processions in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Visual Culture” (Kansas, L. Stone-Ferrier)

Blom, Laura, “Mobilizing the Macabre: Rosso, Rovezzano, and Rustici and the Language of Transgression, 1500–1530” (Johns Hopkins, S. Campbell)

Boles, Cecily, “Sculpted Female Funerary Portraits in Baroque Rome” (Emory, S. McPhee)

Borham, Holly, “The Art of Confessionalism: Picturing Lutheran, Reformed, and Catholic Faith in Northwest Germany, 1580–1620” (Princeton, T. DaCosta Kaufmann)

Boyd, Rachel, “Experimentation and Specialization: The Glazed Terracotta Sculpture of the Della Robbia Workshop, ca. 1430–1550” (Columbia, M. Cole)

Bratichak, Meaghan, “‘Non è buon stile dispiacermi’: Agostino Chigi as Patron of the Villa Farnesina” (Rutgers, S. McHam)

Budnick, Barbara, “The Lay of the Land: Themes in Early Modern English Landscape Painting” (University of Washington, C. Göttler)

Cadagin, Sarah, “The Altarpieces of Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449–1494): Between Heaven and Earth, Faith, and Art” (Maryland, College Park, M. Gill)

Campbell, Katharine, “Producing the Polyglot: Stylistic Pluralism in Antwerp, c. 1520–1566” (Michigan, C. Brusati)

Carlson, Raymond, “Michelangelo between Florence and Rome: Art and Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy” (Columbia, M. Cole)

Cavallo, Bradley, “The Symbolic Significances of Early Modern Paintings on Metal and Stone Supports, c. 1520–1700” (Temple, T. Cooper)

Challenger, Alexandra, “Measuring the Heavens: Printed Instruments, Illustrations, and the Construction of Cosmography in Early Modern Germany” (Florida State, S. Leitch)

D’Addio, Sophia, “Painted Organ Shutters in Renaissance Italy” (Columbia, M.Cole)

D’Arista, Carla, “Building Blocks of Power: The Architectural Commissions and Decorative Projects of the Pucci Family in the Renaissance” (Columbia, F. Benelli)

Denney, Joyce, “The Story of Troy Finds a Home in Macau: A Set of Multicultural Embroidered Hangings of the Seventeenth Century” (Bard Graduate Center, F. Louis)

Depasquale, Thomas, “Leonardo and the Commentators: Seeing Things Hidden in the Earliest Essays on the Work of Art, Italy, circa 1560–1590” (UC Santa Barbara, R. Williams)

Di Croce, Alessandra, “Sacred Fragments: The Reception of Christian Antiquity in post-Reformation Rome” (Columbia, H. Klein, D. Freedberg)

DiMarzo, Michelle, “Titian and the Culture of Mid-Century Rome: The Venetian among the Ruins” (Temple, T. Cooper)

Dodds, Lauren, “Collecting the Renaissance: The Samuel H. Kress Collection of Italian Art” (USC, K. Flint)

Doty, Lindsay M., “The Ideal Made Real: The Aging of the Virgin in Italian Renaissance Art” (Georgia, S. Zuraw)

Dubinsky, Caroline, “Arti del Fuoco: The Visual Culture of Mining and Metallurgy in Sixteenth-Century Italy” (Maryland, College Park, M. Gill)

Duff, Suzanne, “The Antwerp Saint Luke’s Guild and Its Impact on Artistic Production and Identity, 1556–1663” (Brown, J. Muller)

Dundas, Iara A., “The Society of Jesus in France: Architecture and Spectacle from 1560–1660” (Duke, S. Galletti)

Dupertuis, Lindsay, “‘The Ornament of the Mind’: Istoriato Maiolica and the Luxury of Reading in Renaissance Urbino and Beyond” (Maryland, College Park, M. Gill)

Dwyer, Elizabeth, “Portraits and Visions in Renaissance Veneto: Titian, Moroni, Veronese” (Virginia, F. Fiorani)

Eagles, Lane, “Painting the Fetus: Maternal Imagination and Image Efficacy” (University of Washington, S. Lingo)

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

Esquivel, Savannah, “Ornament and Antiquity in the Murals of Sixteenth-Century Mexico” (Chicago, C. Fromont)

Ezra, Ruth, “Veit Stoss in Relief: Eliding Space and Plane in the German Lands, 1470–1530” (Harvard, J. Koerner)

Faust, Marta, “‘Was sichst Du?’: The Instrumentation of Sight in Early Modern Visual Anomalies” (UC Santa Barbara, M. Meadow)

Fette, Mirka, “Johann Georg Bendl: Premier Sculptor of Prague’s Early Baroque” (Princeton, T. DaCosta Kaufmann)

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

Foner, Daria Rose, “Andrea del Sarto and his Circle” (Columbia, M. Cole)

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)

Fraiman, Jeffrey, “The Painted Altarpiece in Rome, ca. 1600–1630: Christian Archaeology, Naturalism, and the Body” (Rutgers, C. Puglisi)

Frederick, Michele, “Shaping the Royal Image: Gerrit van Honthorst and the Stuart Courts in London and The Hague, 1620–1649” (Delaware, P. Chapman)

Fucci, Robert, “Jan van de Velde II (c.1593–1641): The Printmaker as Creative Artist in the Early Dutch Republic” (Columbia, D. Freedberg)

Gans, Sofia, “Between Tradition and Innovation: Rethinking the Tomb of St. Sebald in Nuremberg” (Columbia, S. Murray)

Gear, Jennifer, “Paintings of the 1630–31 Plague in Venice and the Veneto” (Michigan, M. Holmes)

Gebauer, Elizabeth, “The Art of Speech: Flemish Baroque Pulpits, 1627–1794” (Princeton, T. DaCosta Kaufmann)

Giffin, Erin, “Body and Apparition: Material Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italian Religious Sculpture” (University of Washington, S. Lingo)

Gilmore, Shannon, “Sites of Resistance: The Popular Piety of Fifteenth-Century Miraculous Image Cults in Tuscany” (UC Santa Barbara, R. Williams)

Golan, Tamara, “Hans Fries and the Forensic Gaze: Evidence, Inquiry, and Artistic Knowledge in South Germany and Switzerland, 1430–1530” (Johns Hopkins, M. Merback)

Gomez, Ximena, “Confraternal Art in Early Colonial Lima: Negotiating Identity through Visual Culture” (Michigan, M. Holmes)

Gratson, Scott “A Stratification of Death in the Northern Renaissance: A Reconsideration of the Cadaver Tombs of England and Germany” (Temple, A. West)

Griffiths, Christine, “From Garden to Toilette: Cultivating Perfume in Early Modern England” (Bard Graduate Center, D. Krohn)

Han, Yu Na, “The Consolation of Images: Pastoral Care and Visual Culture in Reformation Germany, 1520–1570” (Johns Hopkins, M. Merback)

Hanson, Emily, “Spectacular Ambition: Unrealized Projects of Leonardo and Michelangelo” (Washington University, W. Wallace)

Harrington, Erik, “A Natural Relaxation: Cultural Norms and Pictorial Conventions in the Mid-Seventeenth-Century Dutch Winter Scene” (Virginia, L. Goedde)

Harris, Katerina, “The Moment of Death in Renaissance Art” (IFA/NYU, A. Nagel)

Hayes, Matthew, “Restoration and the invention of the Renaissance, c. 1850–1904” (IFA/NYU, P. Rubin, M. Marincola; K. Christiansen)

Henningsen, Caitlin F., “Antonio Tempesta and the Salience of Stone: Painting on Stone in Rome, 1580–1630” (Harvard, F. Fehrenbach)

Horbatsch, Olenka, “Impressions of Innovation: Early Netherlandish Printmaking, 1520–1540” (Toronto, E. M. Kavaler)

Howard, Charles, “Before Fontainebleau: Italian Artists in France, 1499–1534” (IFA/NYU, C. Eisler)

Huber, Anna K., “In Stitches: Laughter, Prints, and the Artist-Fool in Early Modern Germany” (Harvard, J. L. Koerner)

Hughes, Heather, “Clothing as Culture: Delineating National Character in Costume Prints, c. 1600–1650” (Pennsylvania, L. Silver)

Hunt, Tiffany Lynn, “The Cappella Paolina: Sacred Space and Sacred Site in Pre- and Post-Tridentine Rome” (Temple, M. Hall)

Hupe, Eric, “The Franciscan Theology of Light and Venetian Painting of the Late Fifteenth Century” (Virginia, F. Fiorani)

Jordan Famularo, “The Impact of Gems and Gem-Engraving on Italian Renaissance Art, c.1450s–1550s” (IFA/NYU, A. Nagel)

Kaplan, Stephanie, “Artificial Appearances: Portraiture and Persona in Mid-Sixteenth Century Florence” (Washington University, W. Wallace)

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)

Kirchhoff, Chassica, “The Thun-Hohenstein Album: Constructing the Armored Body in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Holy Roman Empire” (Kansas, A. Hedeman, S. Goddard)

Kobasa, Clare, “Sacred Impressions: Printmaking in Seventeenth-Century Sicily” (Columbia, M. Cole)

Kutasz, Theresa, “Christina, Queen of Sweden, and the Politics of Antiquities Collection in Early Modern Rome” (Penn State, B. Curran)

Kwan, Jamie, “From Flanders to Fontainebleau: The Flemish Presence in the French Renaissance” (Princeton, T. DaCosta Kaufmann)

Lake Jedzinak, Justinne, “Portraits of Early Christian Female Martyrs in Seicento Naples” (Bryn Mawr, D. Cast)

Landsman, Rozemarijn, “Art, Technology, and the City: The Work of Jan van der Heyden (1637–1712)” (Columbia, D. Freedberg)

Lea, Graham, “Biblical History Paintings by Goltzius and Lastman: Their Participation in Local Rhetorical Culture” (Emory, W. Melion)

Letvin, Alexandra, “Miraculous Visions, Demonic Temptations: Francisco de Zurbarán at Guadalupe” (Johns Hopkins, F. Pereda)

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

Lucca, Maria, “Renaissance Siena as a Case Study of Cross-Cultural Exchange in Central Italy” (CUNY, J. Saslow)

Lumbreras, María, “Likeness and Certainty: the Making of Artistic Knowledge in Golden Age Spain” (Johns Hopkins, F. Pereda)

Mack, Stephen, “Donatello and the Unfinished: The Rough Style in Florentine Sculpture from Donatello to Michelangelo” (Rutgers, S. McHam)

Majeski, Anna, “Visualizing the Cosmos in Fourteenth-Century Padua: From Francesco da Barberino to Giusto de’Menabuoi” (IFA/NYU, A. Nagel)

Mao, Natasha, “Revealing and Concealing: Interactive Objects in Italian Renaissance Art, 1400–1600” (Rice, D. Wolfthal)

Márquez, Natalia Vargas, “Looking through the Landscape: An Interpretative Model for Seventeenth-Century Cuzquenian Painting” (Minnesota, M. Gaudio)

Martinez, Trinity, “The Rise and Fall of the Civilized Centaur in Italian Renaissance Art” (CUNY, J. Saslow)

Marzullo, Francesca, “The Figure and the Threshold: Devotional Overdoors in Medieval and Renaissance Italy” (Columbia, M. Cole)

McCabe, Sophia Quach, “Hans Rottenhammer in Venice: Networking in Style between Italy and Germany” (UC Santa Barbara, R. Williams)

Van de Meerendonk, Suzanne, “Public Displays of Affection: Negotiating Power and Identity in Ceremonial Receptions in Amsterdam, 1580–1660” (UC Santa Barbara, A. Adams)

Travers, Erin, “Boundaries of the Body: The Art of Anatomy in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands” (UC Santa Barbara, A. Adams)

McMahon, Brendan, “Where Sight is Scarcely Able to Assure: Iridescence, Vision, and Belief in the Early Modern Spanish World” (USC, D. Bleichmar)

McMahon, Elizabeth, “‘Robes of Court and Palace’: Dress and Queenship at the Court of Henry VIII, 1509–1547” (Bard Graduate Center, A. Morrall)

Mednyánszky, Orsolya, “Leben Jesu: A Pictorial Meditation on Christ’s Virtues in Late Medieval German Manuscripts” (Johns Hopkins, M. Merback)

Millard, Robert, “Live, Struggle, and Die: A Study of Antique Forms in Late-Quattrocento Sculpted Reliefs” (Penn State, B. Curran)

Mitchell, David, “Mimetic Heresies: Waxworks in Paris, 1661–1723” (McGill, A. Vanhaelen)

Monty, Emily, “Printmaking in Rome in the Age of Philip II” (Brown, E. Lincoln)

Narkin, Elisabeth, “Rearing the Royals: Architecture and the Spatialization of Royal Childhood France, 1499–1610” (Duke, S. Galletti)

Nutting, Catherine, “The Stoic Baroque: Rubens as Artist and Theorist” (University of Victoria, E. Campbell)

O’Reilly, Catherine, “Last Supper Refectory Frescoes in Fifteenth-Century Florence: Painting, Performance, Senses, and Space (Boston, J. Cranston)

Offill, Ashley, “The Corsini Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine: Framing the Relic Cult of St. Andrea Corsini in Baroque Florence” (Kansas, S. Cornelison, A. Hedeman)

Oing, Michelle, “The Reliquary and the Puppet: Visual and Kinetic Mimesis in Medieval and Early Modern Sculpture” (Yale, J. Jung)

Ong, Sophie, “Hanging on the Body: Pendants, Materiality, and Touch in the Late Middle Ages” (Rutgers, L. Weigert)

Palermo, Melisa, “Cor ad cor loquitur: Burning Hearts and the Iconography of Divine Charity” (Rice, J. Manca)

Park, Jeongho, “El Greco and the Art of Portraiture” (IFA/NYU, J. Brown)

Payne, Brighton, “The Bruegelians: Formation and Canonization of Peasant Imagery in the Tradition of Pieter Bruegel the Elder” (Maryland, College Park, A. Wheelock, Jr.)

Petersen, Elizabeth, “Donatello Architetto: On the Order of Architecture in the Work of Donatello” (Penn State, B. Curran)

Pilgrim, James, “Jacopo Bassano and the Ecology of Painting” (Johns Hopkins, S. Campbell)

Platts, Christopher, “The Later Works of Paolo Veneziano (active 1310–1358): Studies in the Patronage, Design, and Reception of Venetian Gothic Painting in Italy and the Adriatic” (Yale, R. Nelson)

Quinn Teresi, Rebecca, “Images of the Immaculate Conception and the Rhetorics of Purity in Golden Age Spain” (Johns Hopkins, F. Pereda)

Racco, Tiffany, “Luca Giordano: Speed, Imitation, and the Art of Fame” (Delaware, D. Stone)

Reso, Denise, “German Artistic Influence on English Middle Class Visual and Material Culture of the Tudor Period” (Florida, E. Ross)

Rich, Brooks, “The Eclectic Engraver: Monogrammist AC at the Margins of Early Modern Printmaking” (Pennsylvania, L. Silver)

Richardson, Jamie, “Curiosity and Collection Practice in the Constcamer Paintings of Frans II Francken (1581–1642)” (Bryn Mawr, C. Hertel)

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

Sandoval, Elizabeth, “The Book as Self: A 15th-Century Case Study of Visual Metaphor in Northern European Art” (Ohio State, K. Whittington)

Saracino, Jennifer, “Shifting Landscape: Depictions of Environmental Disruption in the Mappa Uppsala of Mexico-Tenochtitlan” (Tulane, E. Boone)

Scheier-Dolberg, Joseph, “Yu Zhiding (1646–1716) and the Envisioning of the Early Qing World” (Columbia, R. Harrist)

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

Schockmel, Bryn, “The Historical Procession of Andrea Mantegna’s Triumphs of Caesar: From the Palazzo Ducale to Hampton Court Palace,” (Boston, J. Cranston)

Seale, Layla, “Demons as a Cultural Species in Late Medieval Northern European Art” (Rice, D. Wolfthal)

Segrave, Hannah, “From Magic to Melancholy: Salvator Rosa and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Italy” (Delaware, D. Stone)

Sepponen, Wendy Mila, “Milanese Bronze, Spanish Stone, and Imperial Materials: Sculptural Interchange and the Leoni Worshops (1549–1608)” (Michigan, M. Holmes, A. Potts)

Sheers, Joanna, “Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), Franciscus Junius (1591–1677) and Humanism in the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth-Century” (IFA/NYU, M. Westermann)

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

Shwab, Reilly, “Goede Nacht: Images of the Night in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Visual Culture” (Kansas, L. Stone-Ferrier)

Simmons, Elizabeth, “Volterrano as a Draftsman: Style, Technique, and Connoisseurship of Drawings in Seicento Florence” (Delaware, D. Stone)

Snodgrass Plyler, Jennifer, “Images of Power and Anxiety: The Lactating Breast in Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Art” (Maryland, College Park, A. Wheelock, Jr.)

Somenzi, Laura, “Treasuries, Invention, and the Teodelinda Chapel in Monza” (Emory, C. J. Campbell)

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)

Suh, Hwanhee, “Dynamics of Collaboration and Competition in Seventeenth Chinese Painting” (Columbia, R. Harrist)

Sullivan, Kathleen, “Style and Meaning in Girolamo Romanino” (Rutgers, B. Paul)

Sullo, Nicole Paxton, “The Art of Memory in Byzantium during the Later Middle Ages” (Yale, R. Nelson)

Sweeney, Kyle, “Notre-Dame de Louviers: Architecture and Urban Identity in Late Medieval Normandy” (Rice, L. Neagley)

Tennison, Heather, “Tradition, Innovation, and Agency in a City of God: The Philadelphia Cité de Dieu and Early Fifteenth-Century Parisian Manuscript Culture” (Kansas, A. Hedeman)

Thorpe, Heather D., “Modernity’s Caravaggio: Reinventing a Seicento Artist for the Twentieth-Century” (Iowa, J. B. Scott)

Tillery, Laura, “The Hanse as Artistic Network: Late Medieval Altarpieces in Fifteenth-Century Lübeck” (Pennsylvania, L. Silver)

Tolstoy, Irina, “Camillo Trevisan’s Palace and Villa Culture on the Island of Murano” (Columbia, M. Cole)

Upart, Anatole, “Slavic Rome: Constructing Foreign Communities in an Early Modern Italian City” (Chicago, N. Atkinson)

Van Wingerden, Carolyn, “‘The Turbaned Heads, Each Wrapped in Twisted Folds of the Whitest Silk’: Images of Muslims in Netherlandish Art, 1400–1700” (Rice, D. Wolfthal)

Vazquez, Julia, “The Artist as Curator: Diego Velázquez, 1623–1660” (Columbia, D. Bodart, M. Cole)

Vigotti, Lorenzo, “The Origin of the Renaissance Palace: Private Architecture during the Florentine Oligarchy, 1382–1432” (Columbia, M. Cole)

Vincent, Normandy, “Graphic Virtuosities and their Vicissitudes: Reproductive Printmaking and Emulation in Rudolfine Prague” (Harvard, J. Koerner)

Vranic, Ivana, “Between Physis and the Technē: Molding, Firing, and Painting Terracotta groups in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy” (University of British Columbia, B. Wilson)

Wainwright, Lindsey, “Images of Hunting in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Visual Culture” (Kansas, L. Stone-Ferrier)

Wallace, Catharine, “Cultivating the Imago: Egyptian All’antica Imagery as Emblems of the City and Roman Hegemony in the Cinquecento” (Temple, M. Hall)

Wangensteen, Kjell, “Hyperborean Baroque: David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (1628–98) and the First Swedish School of Art” (Princeton, T. da Costa Kaufmann)

Wehn, James, “Inventing the Market: Authenticity, Replication, and the Prints of Israhel van Meckenem” (Case Western Reserve, C. Scallen)

Whitford, Kelly, “Angelic Devotion: Embodying Belief with Bernini’s Angels on the Ponte Sant’Angelo” (Brown, D. Nickel)

Whitford, Kelly, “Embodying Belief: Crossing the Ponte Sant’Angelo with Bernini’s Angels”

Whittaker, Loren, “An American Jesuit Treasury of Religious Art: The Van Ackeren Collection in the Greenlease Gallery at Rockhurst University” (Kansas, S. Cornelison)

Willever, Suzanne, “Disseminating the Art of Rome in Print: Making, Meaning, and Going Viral in the Sixteenth-Century” (Temple, M. Hall, A. West)

Winters, Thomas M., “Honthorst’s Women: Art, Gender, and the Virtuosi” (Virginia, L. Goedde)

Witty, John, “The Santa Chiara Polyptych and the Media of Devotion in Fourteenth-Century Venice” (Emory, C. J. Campbell)

York, Tyler, “Dressing the Part/Parting with the Dress: Rembrandt’s Refashioning of Middle Eastern Attire” (Kansas, L. Stone-Ferrier)

Yuen, Melissa, “The Young Mattia Preti in Rome: Style, Baroque Painting, and the Art Market, c. 1630–1653” (Rutgers, C. Puglisi)

Zappella, Christine, “Andrea del Sarto’s Grisaille Decoration of the Chiostro dello Scalzo: Style, Ontology, Reform” (Chicago, C. Cohen)

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

Zumaya, Diva “Clandestine Devotion, Spiritual Reformation, and Community Perseverance in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Catholic Visual Culture” (UC Santa Barbara, A. Adams)