Independent Research
2000 Grant Recipients

Grants for Independent Research on Venetian History and Culture

2000-2001 United States Program

Irene Alm

A Venetian ‘Court’?: Politics and Music

Mauro P. Calcagno

Francesco Cavalli’s Opera Scores: A Treasure in the Contarini Collection of the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice

Jill E. Carrington

Sculpted Tombs of the Professors of the University of Padua, c. 1358 - c. 1557

Tracy E. Cooper

Palladio and Venice: Art, Church, and State in a Renaissance Republic

Margaret D’Evelyn

Venice ad Vitruvius: Architecture and Literacy Culture from Petrarch to Palladio

Bruce John Durazzi

Luigi Nono’s Musical Poetics and Political Ideology

Claire A. Fontijn

Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo (c.1640-c.1720)

Jennifer R. Hirsh

Self-Portraiture and Self-Representation: The Painting and Writing of Giorgio de Chirico

Stacey Kaplan

St. Catherine of Alexandria in the Veneto during the 16th Century: The Social, Religious, and Political Contexts of a Venetian Saint

Michele Lamprakos

Merchant Space in the Late Medieval Mediterranean: the Venetians in Aleppo

Kristin Huffman Lanzoni

Alessandro Vittoria's Sculpture, His Private Art Collection & Social and Cultural Myths of Late Cinquecento Venice

Maria Hsiuya Loh

"Theatrum Pictorium / Theatrum Libri": The Negotiation of Venetian Old master Style in Seventeenth Century European Courts and Markets

Sarah Blake McHam

The Influence of Pliny’s Natural History on Italian Renaissance Art

Katherine McIver

The Art of Collecting: Women, Domestic Goods and Material Culture in the Emilia Romagna and the Veneto

Adinah S. Miller

Necessary Evils: Jews and Prostitutes in Early Modern Venice

Gary M. Radke

Nuns and their Art: the Case of San Zaccaria in Renaissance Venice

Benjamin Ravid

Shylock, the Jewish Merchants of Venice, and Their Ghetto

Monika Anne Schmitter

Marcantonio Michiel’s Notizia: Collecting Art and History in Renaissance Venice

Francesca Toffolo

Art and the Conventual Life in Renaissance Venice: the Monastery Church of Santa Caterina de’ Sacchi

Helen Deborah Walberg

The Marian Cycle at S. Maria Maggiore: Representations of Popular Legend in Post-Interdict Venice