Francesca Fiorani
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Francesca Fiorani
http://faculty.virginia.edu/Fiorani/
McIntire Department of Art
Deans’ Office, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Phone (434) 924-4648
[email protected]
EDUCATION
1994
1990
1986
Ph.D., Art History, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
M.A., Art History, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
B.A., Art History, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, (summa cum laude)
APPOINTMENTS
2014-2015
20142013-2016
2012
2005-2014
1997-2005
1988-1992
Interim Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, College and Graduate School of
Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Professor of Art History, Art Department, University of Virginia
Chair, Art Department, University of Virginia
Guest curator, Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia
Associate Professor of Art History, University of Virginia
Assistant Professor, Art Department University of Virginia
Assistant Curator for Special Exhibitions and Programs, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte
Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
2013
2012
2012
2012
2011-2012
2010-2012
2009-2010
2009-2010
2008
2007
2006
Sesquicentennial Fellowship, University of Virginia
Outstanding Faculty Speaker Recognition, Office of Engagement, University of Virginia
Principal Investigator, $ 80.000 Grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to Institute
of Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia
Principal Investigator, $ 35,000 Grant from the Vice Provost for International Programs,
University of Virginia
Principal Investigator, $ 202,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
to the University of Virginia
Principal Investigator, $ 250.000 Grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to Institute
of Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (postponed to 2010-2011)
American Council of Learned Societies, Frederick Burckhardt Residential Fellowship,
Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence
Visiting Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The European Forum
Visiting Professor, The Interdisciplinary Center at Hertzlya, Israel, Law School
Premio Salimbeni per la Storia e la Critica d’Arte, Special Mention for The Marvel of
Maps. Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy (Yale University Press,
New Haven & London, 2005)
Francesca Fiorani
2005-2009
2004-present
2004-2006
2001-2002
2000-2001
1997
1997
1995
1994
1994
1993
1990-1993
1989
1988
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Director, UVA in Italy: The Art and Architecture of Rome (Summer Term)
Director, UVA in Italy: Renaissance Art on Site, University of Virginia (January Term)
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia
Sesquicentennial Fellowship, University of Virginia
Getty Center, Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities
American Council for the Learned Societies, Research Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship for University Professors
Fellow, Folger Institute, The Folger Shakespeare Library
Fellow, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
Fellow, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Francis Yates Fellow, Warburg Institute, University of London
Ministero dell’Universitá e della Ricerca Scientifica, Italy, Ph.D. Fellowship
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy, Research Fellowship
Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome, Italy, Research Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Leonardo’s Optics: Theory and Pictorial Practice, co-edited volume with Alessandro Nova
(Marsilio Editore, Venice 2013)
Carte dipinte. Arte, cartografia e politica nel Rinascimento (Franco Cosimo Panini, Modena,
2010)
The Marvel of Maps. Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy (Yale University Press,
New Haven & London, 2005)
Exhibition Catalogues
Bartolo di Fredi’s Adoration of the Magi: a Masterpiece Reconstructed, co-edited with Bruce
Boucher (Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, 2012).
Pistoletto, co-edited with Anna Imponente (Galleria Nazionale d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea,
Rome, 1990)
Luigi Spazzapan, 1889-1959, exhibition catalogue, ed. Anna Imponente and Francesca Fiorani
(Galleria Nazionale d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, 1990)
Essays and Reviews
“Reflections on Leonardo da Vinci Exhibitions in London and Paris”, in Studiolo. Revue
d’histoire de l’art de l’Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis, vol. 10, 2013, pp.
267-276.
“Leonardo’s Optics in the 1470s,” in: Leonardo’s Optics: Theory and Pictorial Practice,
ed. Francesca Fiorani and Alessandro Nova (Marsilio Editore, Venice, 2013), 265-292.
“The Genealogy of Leonardo’s Shadows in a Drapery Study”, in Renaissance Studies in Honor
of Joseph Connors, ed. Machtelt Israel and Louis Waldman, The Harvard Center for
Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, Villa I Tatti Series, no. 29 (Harvard
University Press, Cambridge, 2013), pp. 267-273, 840-841
“Renaissance Mapping, Ancient Geographical Knowledge and Modern Voyages”, in The
Cambridge Companion Guide to the Italian Renaissance, ed. Michael, W. Wyatt
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(Cambridge University Press, Cambridge & London, 2014), pp. 57-81
“Places of Renaissance Mapping” in Herrschaft verorten Politische Kartographie des
Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Ingrid Baumgärtner and Martina Stercken,
(Zurich, 2012), pp. 125-142
“Bartolo di Fredi’s View of Siena as the New Jerusalem” in Bartolo di Fredi’s Adoration of the
Magi: a Masterpiece Reconstructed, ed. Bruce Boucher and Francesca Fiorani (Fralin
Museum of Art, Charlottesville, 2012) pp. 15-22
Review of Ptolemy’s Geography in the Renaissance, eds. Zur Shalev and Charles Barnett,
Warburg Institute Colloquia, London 2011, in Journal of Early Modern History, Winter
2012, pp. 582-584
“Da Bologna al mondo: astronomia, cartografia, giurisprudenza e la chiesa universale di
Gregorio XIII” in La Sala Bologna, ed. Francesco Ceccarelli (Marsilio Editore, Venice,
2011), pp. 9-23
Review of Il trionfo di Vertunno. Illusioni ottiche e cultura letteraria nell’eta’ della
Controriforma, Marco Arnaudo. Renaissance Quarterly, 64, 1, Spring 2011, pp. 203-204.
Review of The Possessions of a Cardinal, ed. Mary Hollingsworth and Carol M. Richardson, in
The Times Higher Education, UK, June 2010, pp. 52-53.
“The Shadows of Leonardo’s Annunciation and Their Lost Legacy”, Imitation, Representation
and Printing in the Italian Renaissance, ed. Roy Eriksen and Magne Malmanger (Pisa
and Rome, 2009), pp. 119-156.
“The Colors of Leonardo’s Shadows”, Leonardo. The International Society of the Arts, Sciences
and Technologies 41, vol. 3, 2008, pp. 271-278.
“The Theory of Shadow Projection and Aerial Perspective. Leonardo, Desargues and Bosse”,
in Lichtgefüge des 17. Jahrhunderts. Rembrant und Vermeer, Leibnitz und Spinoza, eds.
C. Bohlmann, T. Fink, P. Weiss (Wilhelm Fink, Munich, 2008), pp. 191-206.
“Art and Science in the Renaissance”, in What Should I Read Next? The University of Virginia
Reader’s Guide, eds. Jessica Feldman & Robert Stilling (University of Virginia Press,
Charlottesville, 2008), pp. 199-203.
Review of Leonardo Da Vinci Experience, Experiment and Design, Martin Kemp. Renaissance
Quarterly 61, no. 3 (2008), pp. 921-923.
“Painted Map Cycles in the Renaissance”, History of Cartography, Volume Three: The
Renaissance, ed. David Woodward (Chicago University Press, Chicago 2007), pp. 803835.
Review of Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland: Jacques de Gheyn II (15651629), Claudia Swan. Renaissance Quarterly 60, no. 3 (2007), pp. 216-218.
“1580. Italian Cartographic Murals of the Renaissance”, in The Map Book, ed. Peter Barber,
London: The British Library, 2005, pp. 120-123.
“La Sala Bologna di Gregorio XIII”, Iconografia delle cittá europee, ed. Cesare De Seta (Electa,
Naples, 2004), pp. 179-187.
Review of Leonardo da Vinci. Natur im Übergand, ed. Frank Fehrenbach. Renaissance Quarterly
57, no. 3 (2004), pp. 991-993.
Review of Les grandeurs de la Terre. Aspects du savoir geographique a la Renaissance, Jean
Marc Besse. Imago Mundi 57, no. 1 (2004), pp. 70-71.
“Danti Edits Vignola. The Formation of a Modern Classic on Perspective”, The Treatise on
Perspective. Published and Unpublished, ed. Lyle Massey, Studies in the History of Art,
59, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Symposium Papers XXXVI (National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2003), pp. 127-159.
Review of Pontormo Bronzino Allori: A Genealogy of Florentine Art, Elizabeth Pilliod.
Sixteenth Century Journal 34, no. 1 (2003), pp. 300-301.
Review of Immagini per conoscere dal Rinascimento alla Rivoluzione scientifica, ed. Fabrizio
Merio and Claudio Pogliano. Renaissance Quarterly 56, no. 4 (2003), pp. 1275-1276.
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Review of Alla scoperta del mondo. L’arte della cartografia da Tolomeo a Mercatore. Imago
Mundi 55, no. 1 (2003), p. 136.
“Maps, Politics and the Grand Duke of Florence. The Sala della Guardaroba Nuova of Cosimo I
de’ Medici”, Renaissance Representations of the Prince. Basilike Eikon, eds. Roy
Eriksen and Magne Malmanger (Rome, 2001), pp. 73-102.
“Post-tridentine ‘Geographia sacra’: The Galleria delle Carte Geografiche in the Vatican Palace”,
Imago Mundi 48 (1996), pp. 124-148.
“The Theory of Shadow Projection and Aerial Perspective. Leonardo, Desargues and Bosse”,
Desargues en son temps, eds. J. Dhombres and J. Sakarovitch (Paris, 1994), pp. 267-282.
Reprints: Leonardo da Vinci. Selected Scholarship in English, 5 vols., ed. Claire Farago
(Garlands, New York,1999), vol. 4, pp. 215-230.
Translations: into German, Lichtgefüge des 17. Jahrhunderts. Rembrant und Vermeer,
Leibnitz und Spinoza, eds. C. Bohlmann, T. Fink, P. Weiss (Wilhelm Fink: Munich,
2008), pp. 191-206.
Review of The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine. The Kunstkammer and the
Evolution of Nature, Art and Technology, Horst Bredekamp. Renaissance Quarterly 51,
no. 1 (1998), pp. 268-270.
“The Multimedia Format of Renaissance Maps”, in Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance
Studies, London, May 1995, pp. 7-12.
“Abraham Bosse e le prime critiche al Trattato della Pittura di Leonardo”, Achademia Leonardi
Vinci V (1992), pp. 78-95.
Consagra, exhibition catalogue, ed. Anna Imponente and Rosella Siligato (Galleria
Nazionale d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, 1989), 119-136, 218-231.
“Il problema della scelta del soggetto: le mostre d’arte a Weimar, 1799-1805”, Ricerche di Storia
dell'Arte 33 (1987), pp. 19-30.
Digital Publications
Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting, author and director, April 2012
www.treatiseonpainting.org
“The Enduring Power of Forgery and Imagination: The Zeno Map”, author, in Cartographic
Innovations, John Carter Brown Library, May 2012
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/cartographic/pages/fiorani.
html
Leonardo da Vinci Between Art and Science, editor, Projects from the 2012 NEH Summer
Institute http://faculty.virginia.edu/Fiorani/NEH-Institute/essays/
Works in progress
Leonardo’s Shadows, a study on Leonardo’s shadows from the point of view of painting
technique, science and natural philosophy (book manuscript).
UNIVERSITY/PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
National and International
2013
2012-2014
Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities
Reviewer, Renate Voris Foundation Fellowship
Francesca Fiorani
2012
2012
2011
2010
2009
2007-present
2008-2012
2006
2005-present
2005-present
2005-present
Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities
Evaluator of Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Panelist (by invitation), American Council of Learned Societies, Annual Meeting
Nominations for Distinguished Achievements Awards (by invitation), Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation
Nominations for fellows (by invitation), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
University of Virginia Representative, Executive Committee, Folger Institute
Member of the Programming Committee (by invitation), Folger Institute
Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities
Reviewer of manuscripts for publication
Princeton University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Pearson, Oxford University
Press, Ashgate, Center for American Places, Thames & Hudson, Art Bulletin,
Renaissance Quarterly, Imago Mundi, Aurora, Journal of Historical Geography
Review of tenure files for various universities in the US, Europe, and Asia
Review of proposal on art history projects for various foundations in the US and Europe
University of Virginia
2012-2013
2012-2013
2013
2011-2013
2012
2012-2015
2012-2016
2011-present
2011
2011
2010
2009-present
2009
2009
2007-2008
2008-2009
2007-2008
2004-2005
President Office, Public Occasions Subcommittee
Provost Office, Global Studies Committee
Provost Office, Reappointment Review Committee, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Provost Office, Advisory Committee, Leadership in Academic Matters
Provost Office, Task Force on Revenues and Incentives
Faculty Senate, Executive Committee
Faculty Senate, College of Arts and Sciences, member at large
Provost Office, VP for International Programs, Faculty Advisory Committee on
Education Abroad
Center for Undergraduate Excellence, Selection Committee
Center for Undergraduate Excellence, Selection Committee, Arts Awards
Teaching Resource Center, Selection Committee, All-University Graduate Teaching
Award
Development Office, Meetings with UVA alumni
Center for Undergraduate Excellence, Selection Committee
Center for Undergraduate Excellence, Selection Committee, Arts Awards
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, Selection Committee
International Studies, Executive Committee
International Studies, Executive Committee
International Studies, Search Committee for Director of Study Abroad
University of Virginia, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
2012-2014
2012-present
2012-2013
2012
2011-present
2011-2015
2008-2009
2007-2009
2003-2005
1999-2000
Dean’s Office, Committee, MA in European Studies
Dean’s Office, New Learning Technology Committee
Steering Committee
Study Abroad Committee
Institute for the Humanities and Global Cultures, Advisory Board
College of Arts and Science, Advising Fellow
Steering Committee
College of Arts and Science, Advising Fellow
College of Arts and Science, Advising Fellow
College of Arts and Science, Advising Fellow
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University of Virginia, Art Department
Department Chair, 2013-2016
Peer Review Committee, 2012-2013
Meetings with donor Robert Crane, 2009-2013
Chair, Committee for new PhD Program, 2004-2005
Director of Undergraduate Programs 2001-2005
Director of Distinguished Major Programs, 1999-2005, 2007-2009
Graduate Committee, 2011-2012
Equal Opportunity Coordinator, 2001-2005
Leslie Baltz Award to Study in Italy, Reviewer, 1999-2005
Search Committee for Department Chair, 2003-2004
Search Committee for 18th and 19th Century Art, 2003-2004
Search Committee for Medieval Art, 2007-2008
McIntire Lecture Series, 2007-2009
Tenure Review Committee, 2012-2013
Third-year Review Committee, 2008-2009
Advising, International Exchange Students, current
LIFE-LONG MEMBERSHIP
Society of Fellows, University of Virginia
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Leadership in Academic Matters, Fall 2010
CONFERENCE/SESSION ORGANIZATION
2013
2012
2012
2011
2009
2009
2008
2007
2007
2005
2004
The Materiality of Colors I and II, Renaissance Society of America, San Diego
(with Marcia Hall).
Bartolo di Fredi and His Times, University of Virginia, April 2012 (with Bruce
Boucher).
Leonardo da Vinci’s Legacy: International Collaboration and Global Access, University
of Virginia.
Leonardo da Vinci and Optics, Florence, Italy, Max Plank Gesellschaft-Kunsthistorisches
Institut in Florenz (with Alessandro Nova).
Leonardo and Optics in the 1470s, Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles.
Writings, Readings and Dreams of the Young Leonardo Da Vinci, Renaissance Society of
America, Los Angeles
Leonardo da Vinci in Context: Knowledge and Transgression in Early Modernity, Tel
Aviv, Israel (with Lea Dovev).
Writing on Art and Architecture: Authorship, Circulation and Publication, Renaissance
Society of America, San Francisco (with Claire Farago)
Urban Landscape and Devotional Strategies, Renaissance Society of America, San
Francisco (with Barbara Wisch)
Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting, University of Virginia.
Questo Gran Drago Gregory XIII (1572-85): Art, Science, and Social Order and Questo
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Gran Drago Gregory XIII (1572-85): Rome and the Vatican, Sixteenth Century Society
Conference, Toronto (with Barbara Wisch)
INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008
2008
2008
2007
2007
2006
Leonardo da Vinci, His Shadows and Legacy, The Hermitage Museum, Norfolk, VA
Leonardo da Vinci’s Adoration of the Magi, Texas Christian University, Forth Worth,
TX, January 2014
Practical and Theoretical Optics of Leonardo da Vinci, Institute Poincare, Paris
The Practical and Theoretical Optics of the Young Leonardo, Renaissance Society of
America, San Diego
Leonardo’s Treatise on Painting: A Digital Archive, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Library, Richmond
Leonardo’s Atmosphere, Max Plank Gesellschalft - Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz,
Panel “After the Deluge: Reimagining Leonardo’s Legacy”, Dean’s Forum, University of
Virginia, Architecture School
Leonardo and His Treatise on Painting, Renaissance Society of America, Washington
The Practical and Theoretical Optics of the Young Leonardo, Max Planck Gesellschalft
for the History of Science, Berlin; Dutch Institute, Florence, Italy
Leonardo’s Optics, University of London, Warburg Institute
Speaker at the 2012 Women Faculty Dinner, University of Virginia
Leonardo Live, Paramount Theater, Charlottesville, VA
The Renaissance World Image: Between Art, Science, and Politics, University of Oslo,
Faculty of Humanities
Il Trattato della pittura di Leonardo, Biblioteca Leonardiana, Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Board of
Trustees, Yale University
Leonardo’s Shadows, Max Plank Gesellschalft - Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florez;
The Society of Fellows, University of Virginia; University of Oxford, UK (2010); The
Harvard Center of Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence (2009); University
of Notre Dame, Rome Program (2009); Folger Institute Faculty Seminar, Washington D.
C. (Director Lorrain Daston) (2008)
Painted Maps. Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Europe, The British \
Library (in connection with the exhibition Magnificent Maps)
Cartografia e politica in Palazzo Vecchio: La Guardarona di Cosimo I de’ Medici
University of Florence, Department of Architectural History
Geografia sacra: Roma negli affreschi vaticani di Gregorio XIII, Istituto nazionale di
studi romani, Rome
Cartography and Politics in Late Renaissance Italy, University of Zurich
Leonardo and Optics in the 1470s, Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles
Leonardo’s Shadows, The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
(connection with an exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings from Turin)
The Places of Renaissance Mapping, The Library of Congress
The Colors of Leonardo’s Shadows, Tel Aviv University, Israel
The Places of Renaissance Mapping. Renaissance Society of America, Chicago
Leonardo’s Optics, Harvard University, Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I
Tatti, Florence
Between Phenomenology and Culture. The Places of Renaissance Mapping, College Art
Association, New York
Leonardo’s Shadows and Their Omission in Renaissance Theory. Renaissance Society of
Francesca Fiorani
2006
2006
2006
2005
2005
2005
2004
2004
2003
2003
2003
2002
2002
2001
2001
2001
2000
2000
1999
1999
1999
1998
1998
1998
1997
1997
2006
2006
1996
1995
1995
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America, San Francisco
The Order of Renaissance Maps, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute for
Advanced Studies
Representing Space, Place and Site in Renaissance Maps, Ben Gurion University,
Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Psychology
Cartography, Art and Religion in Late Renaissance Rome, Haifa University, School of
History
Papal Processions and Topography in Late Renaissance Rome. Renaissance Society of
America, Cambridge, UK
Leonardo’s Legacy to Art Theory. Association of Historian of Art, Bristol, UK
Leonardo’s Legacy to Art Theory, The Norwegian Institute in Rome
Cartografia e religione nel papato Boncompagni, American Academy in Rome
Leonardo’s Treatise on Painting. Renaissance Society of America, New York
The Order of Ptolemy’s Maps, University of London, Warburg Institute
The Legacy of Leonardo’s Art Theory. Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Pittsburgh
La Sala Bologna di Gregorio XIII, University of Naples, Departimento di Storia
dell’Architettura
Alberti and Leonardo in 1651, The Getty Research Center, Los Angeles
The Spirituality of Maps. The Gallery of Maps in the Vatican Palace. Renaissance
Society of America, Scottsville, AZ
Leonardo’s Trattato della Pittura as a printed book, University of London, Warburg
Institute
The Order of Maps. Map Cycles in Print and in Paint. Renaissance Society of America,
Chicago
Space, Time and Order in Renaissance Maps, University of Virginia, Media Studies
Collecting by Maps. The Guardaroba Nuova of Grand Duke Cosimo I. Renaissance
Society of America, Florence, Italy
According to Maps. Art, Collecting and Scientific Culture. College Art Association, New
York
Maps and Catholic Reform in Sixteenth Century Italy. XVIII International Conference on
the History of Cartography, Athens
Maps, Politics, and Grand Duke of Florence. The Guardaroba Nuova of Cosimo I de'
Medici, The Norwegian Institute in Rome
Collecting by Maps. Art Scientific Culture and the Grand Duke of Florence, Columbia
University, Department of Art History, April 1999
Maps, Politics and the Grand Duke of Florence. The Guardaroba Nuova of Cosimo I de’
Medici, Library of Congress, Washington
The Sala Bologna in the Vatican Palace. Renaissance Society of America, College Park
According to Maps. Art, Scientific Culture and Politics in Medicean Florence, University
of Virginia, Department of Art History
Danti Edits Vignola. How a Renaissance Workshop Manual Became a Treatise, Center
for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Maps, Politics and the Grand Duke of Florence. The Guardaroba Nuova of Cosimo I de’
Medici. XVII International Conference on the History of Cartography, Lisbon
Titian’s Venus Blindfolding Cupid, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (in connection with the
exhibition Titian from the Galleria Borghese)
I codici di Leonardo tra filologia e fantasia, Italian Institute of Culture, Tel Aviv
The Guardaroba Nuova of Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici. Renaissance Society of
America, Bloomington, IN
Cartography and History in a Renaissance Atlas of Italy. RSA, New York
Description, Rhetoric, and the Mapping of Italy: The Vatican Gallery of Maps. College
Francesca Fiorani
1994
1993
1992
1991
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Art Association, San Antonio, TX
Cartography and Religion. The Use of Maps in Sixteenth-century Religious Debates,
Brown University, John Carter Brown Library
Egnazio Danti as Map-Maker, University of London, Warburg Institute
The Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, College de France, Seminaire sur l’Histoire de la
Perspective, Paris
The Theory of Shadow Projection and Aerial Perspective. Leonardo, Desargues and
Bosse, University of Paris, Institute Henri Poincare
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Dissertation directed
Elizabeth Dwyer (current)
Eric Hupe (current)
Justin Greenlee (current)
Jessica Stewart (2011), “The sketches of Pollaiuolo, Verrocchio, and Leonardo: eye, mind, and
hand in Renaissance Florence”.
Elizabeth McMahon Nabi (2011), “Contextual studies of Fra Bartolomeo: painting, devotion, and
politics”.
Emily Moerer (2003), “Catherine of Siena and the use of images in the creation of a saint,
1347-1461”.
Dissertation committees in art and architectural history
Current: Tracy Cosgrif, Yoko Hara, Anna Kim
Completed: Emily Fenichel (2013), Katherine Baker (2013), Leslie Cozzi (2012), Monica
Shenouda (2009), Tanya Paul (2008), Susan Maxwell (2002), Dominique Surh (2000), April
Oettinger (2000), Robin O’Brian (2000), Ivan Castaneda (2000), Howard Blazzard (2000)
MA thesis directed
Emily Moerer (1999), “Monastic art and devotion in Renaissance Florence : the monastery of
Sant' Apollonia”.
Christina Perea (1999), “The Scrittoio di Calliope in Palazzo Vecchio collecting, politics, and
Cosimo I de' Medici”.
Jennifer Bahus (2002), Botticelli's beholder: Mars and Venus and the renaissance conceptions of
painted myth”.
Rachel Hershberg (2002), “Setting the scene for Masolino's Goldman Annunciation”.
Vicky Fama (2005), “Harmonic oppositions in Leonardo da Vinci's Adoration of the Magi”.
Elizabeth McMahon (2005), “A vision of unity: Leonardo's Virgin of the Rocks”.
Jessica Stewart (2005), “Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci : drawing as dialogue,
sketch as skirmish”.
SELECTED COURSES TAUGHT
University of Virginia Art and Science in Renaissance Europe; Renaissance Art on Site (taught in
Florence and Rome, Italy); Baroque and Renaissance Rome (taught in Rome,
Italy); Leonardo da Vinci; Mapping in Renaissance Europe; Shadows and
Renaissance Art; Mapping the Globe from Ancient Times to Google Maps; Art
and Gender in the Renaissance; Italian Renaissance Art; The Legacy of Leonardo
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da Vinci (graduate seminar with research trip to London); Global Renaissance
(Graduate Seminar); Renaissance Art Criticism (Graduate Seminar); Collecting
in Early Modern Europe (Graduate Seminar).