Independent Research
2001 Grant Recipients

Grants for Independent Research on Venetian History and Culture

2001-2002 United States Program

Irina Andreescu-Treadgold

A Chemical Analysis of the Glass Tesserae of the Mosaics of Torcello's West Wall (11th-19th centuries)

Karl Appuhn

Urban Space and Water Management: Flood Control in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1700

Robert G. Colby

Ferrarese Art, Venetian Sculpture and the Paintings of Dosso Dossi

Siobhan M. Conaty

Futurism: Gender, Culture, & Power

Margaret D'Evelyn

Appendix for "Venice and Vitruvius"

Andrew Faustino Dell'Antonio

Particular gusto e diletto alle orecchie: Venetian Listeners in the Early "Seicento"

Colin Eisler

Jacopo Bellini - The Painter as Sculptor: Reading his Drawings of Statuary

Joanne M. Ferraro

Daily Life in Renaissance Venice. A History of Material Culture

John Garton

The Portraiture of Paolo Veronese

Jan Herlinger

Echoes of Marchetto of Padua in Venetian Manuscripts

Lyle Humphrey

Manuscript Painting for the "Scuole" of Venice, 14th through 16th Centuries

Holly S. Hurlburt

The Dogaresse of Venice, 1556-1797

Nancy Jachec

The Venice Biennale, 1948-64: A Political History

Eugene J. Johnson

Venetian Comedy Theaters, 1607-1637

Matthew Klemm

Philosophy, Medicine, and Ethics in the Thought of Pietro d'Abano

Cindy Klestinec

Domenico Campagnola and the Sala dei Giganti: What Inspired the De Fabrica's Frontispiece

Mary S. Macklem

Sensuality, Public Performance, and the Demands of "Taste": Opera Reform in Venice, 1685-1710

Craig Martin

Aristotle's "Meteorologica" and the Veneto of the Renaissance

John J. McCusker

The Business Press and the Economic Integration of the Early Modern Atlantic World

Laura McGough

Precious Baubles: Brideprice and Bondage in the Atlantic World

Tyrus Miller

Contemporary Italian Philosophy and Austro-German Modernist Culture

Jonathan Seitz

Defining the Nature of the Natural: Catholicism and Views of Nature at the Dawn of the Scientific Revolution

Christina Alexandra Stacy

Veri Ritratti: Pietro Longhi and Genre Painting in 18th century Venice

Larry Wolff

Slavic Identity & Community in Eighteenth-Century Venice

Diana G. Wright

The Greek Correspondence of Bartolomeo Minio: I. Dispacci from Nauplion, 1479-1483 II. Dispacci from Crete, 1500-1502