Independent Research
1999 Grant Recipients

Grants for Independent Research on Venetian History and Culture

1999-2000 United States Program

Nadja Aksamija

Villa and villeggiatura in 16th Century Venetian Dalmatia and in the Ragusan Republic

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Italian Film Between Fascism and Democracy

Nina Cannizzaro

Guido Casoni and the Accademia degli Incogniti

Jeffrey L. Collins

Into the Realm of Hypnos: The Mythopictorial Imagination of Giulio Carpioni

Bernard Dov Cooperman

Class, Criminality, and Cultural Change in the Venetian Ghetto of the 17th Century

Adrienne C. DeAngelis

Two Venetian Projects by Danese Cattaneo: the Apollo Wellhead of the Mint and the Monument to Doge Loredan in Ss Giovanni e Paolo

Una Roman D’Elia

Decorum in the Religious Imagery of Titian and his Literary Circle

Mary D. Edwards

The Chapel of San Giacomo in the Basilica of Sant’Antonio in Padua

Valeria Finucci

The Italian Renaissance Novella Written By Women

Alison Knowles Frazier

A Renaissance Commentary on Genesis, 1-3

Elizabeth Horodowich

Disciplining the Tongue: The Politics of Social Speech in Early Modern Venice

Cindy Klestinec

The Iconography of Early Modern Anatomy: Venetian Cultures and Cadavers in the Sixteenth Century

Jennifer Mass

Analysis of the Torcello Glass Finds: Towards an Early History of Venetian Glass

John McManamon

Archaeological Excavation of Venetian Shipwrecks from the 14th Century

Christopher Nissen

A Lost Voice: The Novellas of Giulia Bigolina of Padua

Monique E. O’Connell

Political Identity in a Colonial Society: the Formation of a Veneto-Cretan Elite

Christopher Pastore

Prefiguring Orientalism: Italian Renaissance Interest in Islamic Agriculture and Landscape Design

Lisa Pon

Printing Piety in Renaissance Venice

Rosemary Trippe

The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: Humanism in the Veneto Visualized

Andrea Zaharia-Roth

Painting Women in the Renaissance Bergamo: Reevalutating Standards of Representation