Independent Research
1998 Grant Recipients

Grants for Independent Research on Venetian History and Culture

1998-1999 United States Program

Albert J. Ammerman

Early Venice (Fourth through Ninth Centuries A.D.)

William L. Barcham

Federico Cornaro: Prince of the Church, Patriarch of Venice, and Patron of the Arts

Patricia Fortini Brown

Refinement without Equal: Private Art and Public Life in Renaissance Venice

Elena Markell Calvillo

Imitation and Invention in the Service of Two Cardinals: Giulio Clovio’s Work for Cardinals Marino Grimani and Alessandro Farnese

Monica Chojnacka

Immigration, Integration, and Public Spectacle in Early Modern Venice

Tracy E. Cooper

Palladio’s Religious Architecture and the State in Early Modern Venice

Michael D. Cunningham

Observing Nature: Antonio Vallisneri and Venetian Science c. 1720

David D’Andrea

Abandoned or Embraced: The Orphans of Renaissance Treviso (1398-1564)

Blake de Maria

The Merchants of Venice: A Study in Sixteenth Century Cittadino Patronage

George Dodds

An Extended Landscape for Living: The Garden Art of Carlo Scarpa

James S. Grubb

The Cittadini in Venetian Government and Society

Marcus Hall

Cultural Constructions: Restoring the Venetian ‘Natural’ Environment

Thomas F. Madden

Women of Means: The Convent of San Zaccaria in Medieval Venice

Louisa C. Matthew

The Business of Painting in Early Sixteenth-Century Venice

Hilary Poriss

Aria Interpolation at the Teatro La Fenice

Susan Mosher Stuard

Consumption, Demand, and Sumptuary Law in Fourteenth Century Italy

Maximilian Lloyd Stueland Tondro

Ephemeral Architecture and the Organisation of Public Space in Renaissance Venice, 1495-1607

Lori J. Ultsch

The Lady is Served: Cicisbeism in Eighteenth Century Venice

Larry Wolff

Venice and the Slavs of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment

J. Ned Woodall

An Archeological Survey of Gunflint Production Sites in the Monti Lessini, Veneto, Italy

Diana G. Wright

Bartolomeo Minio: Colonial Crises in Fifteenth-Century Nauplion