Independent Research
2005 Grant Recipients

Grants for Independent Research on Venetian History and Culture

2005-2006 United States Program

William L. Barcham
Fashion Institute of Technology

"Conservatism and Change/Archaism and Innovation: The Case of the Man of Sorrows in Venetian Art"

Jane Elizabeth Condie-Pugh
Northwestern University

"Taming Pazzia: Madness in Late Renaissance Italy"

Robert C. Davis
Ohio State University

"Slave World: The Culture of Enslavement in the Early-Modern Mediterranean 1500-1800"

Julia A. DeLancey
Truman State University

"Selling Color: Pigments in Renaissance Florence and Venice"

Blake de Maria
Santa Clara University

"Becoming Venetian: Immigrants and the Arts in Early Modern Venice"

Valeria Finucci
Duke University

"Valeria Miani"s Celinda and the Renaissance Italian Tragedy Written by Women"

Philip Richard Gavitt
Saint Lois University

"Catholic Humanism, Heresy, and the Venetian Church: Bishop Nacchianti of Chioggia (1544-1569)

Elizabeth Horodowich
New Mexico State University

"Loose Tongues and Bad Manners: The Creation of Civic Identity in Sixteenth-Century Venice"

Frederick A. Ilchman
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

"Repeated Figures in Tintoretto"s Paintings: A New Technical Investigation"

James H. Johnson
Boston University

"Masks and the Making of Modern Consciousness"

Matthew Klemm (outside Venice)
Hoger Instituut Voor Wifsbegeerte

"Medicine and Moral Virtue in Pietro d"Abano"s Expositio"

Margaret L. Laird
University of Washington

"Monumentalizing Civic Contexts: The Public Commissions of the Augustales in Imperial Roman Venetia et Histria"

Margaret Morse
University of Maryland

"The Arts of Domestic Devotion in Renaissance Italy: The Case of Venice"

Debra Pincus (outside Venice)
Italian Art Society, President

"The Baptistery of San Marco in Venice and Franciscan Currents "

Dominique K. Reill
Columbia University

"From Bond to Border: The Transformation of the Northern Adriatic in the 19th Century"

Daniel Savoy
New York University

"The Aquatic Scenography of Architecture and Ritual in Renaissance Venice"

Anne Markham Shulz
Brown University

"Woodcarving and Woodcarvers in Venice, 1370-1550"