Independent Research
2005 Grant Recipients

Grants for Independent Research on Venetian History and Culture

2008-2009 United States Program

Christina Anderson
University of Oxford

Dealer, Collector, Entrepreneur: Daniel Nijs and his Impact on the Early Seventeenth-Century European Art World

Irina Andreescu-Treadgold
St. Louis University

Torcello, Santa Maria Assunta: The South Chapel and Its Wall Mosaics

Meryl Bailey
University of California, Berkeley

La Scuola di San Fantin: Art and Architecture of a Venetian Comforting Confraternity

Lydia Barnett
Stanford University

Supernatural Disasters: The Flood, the Apocalypse, and a New Science of the Earth, 1680-1730

Douglas Biow
University of Texas at Austin

Bodily Matter: Literature, Art, Medicine, and Natural Philosophy in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Jana Byars
Whitman College

Concubines and Concubinage in Early Modern Venice

Linda Cummins
University of Alabama

The "Compendium musicale" of Nicolaus de Capua: Critical Edition and Translation

Eric Dursteler
Brigham Young University

Renegade Women: Gender, Conversion and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Paula Findlen
Stanford University

The Shadows of Galileo: Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Italy

John Garton
Cleveland Institute of Art

Unpublished Letters from Paolo Veronese to Marcantonio Gandino

Chriscinda Henry
University of Chicago

Vernacular Painting: Art and Popular Culture in Renaissance Venice

Heather Hyde Minor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Piranesi's Imperfect Ruins

Dana Katz
Reed College

The Ghetto and the Gaze in Early Modern Venice

Matthew Klemm
University of Nebraska at Kearney

Medical Anthropology in the Late Middle Ages: Body, Soul, and the Virtues according to Pietro d'Abano

John Monfasani
Columbia University

Three Bessarion Projects at the Biblioteca Marciana

Christopher Nygren
Johns Hopkins University

Titian's Artistice Icons: Venetian Religious Painting Between Theology and Devotion

Kiril Petkov
University of Wisconsin, River Falls

Venice, The True Cross and the Crusade in the Later Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Jennifer Scappettone
University of Chicago

Venice and the Digressive Invention of the Modern: Retrospection's Futurity

Jutta Sperling
Hampshire College

Mothering as Charity. Symbolic Evocation and Displacement. Tintoretto's Art at the Scuola di San Rocco

Kate Van Orden
University of California, Berkeley

French Chansons in the Veneto, 1500-1575

Jennifer Williams Brown
Grinnell College

From Page to Stage: Seventeenth--Century Venetian Opera as Written and as Performed