Position(s):
Associate Professor of Italian in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Department/Section:
Italian
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
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Faculty of Modern and听Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building 海角社区 Sidgwick Avenue 海角社区 CB3 9DA United Kingdom
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About:
Jessica Maratsos (PhD Columbia 2014) specialises in Italian Renaissance art, with an emphasis on intermedial exchange, religious practice, and issues of gender and the body.听 She is the author of Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy (CUP, 2021).听 Her current research examines the role of relics as objects of transnational mobility and transformative materiality in the early modern era.听 She has previously taught at the American University of Paris, Columbia University, and Harvard University.
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Research interests:
- Renaissance visual and material culture
- Intersections between image and text
- Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna
- Epistemologies of the body
- Religious practice and performance
- Gender and Christian devotion
- Concepts of authenticity and originality
- Mobility and global encounters
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Published works:
- . 海角社区 University Press, 2021.
- 鈥樷��.听Renaissance Studies听2024 (Version of Record online).
- 鈥溾�業nscribed upon their hearts鈥�: Copying and the Dissemination of Devotion,鈥� in Vittoria Colonna: Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact, eds. Virginia Cox and Shannon McHugh (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021), 173-198.
- 鈥淐osimo and Religious Heterodoxy in Tuscany,鈥� in Companion to Cosimo I de鈥� Medici (1519-1574), eds. Alessio Assonitis and Henk Van Veen (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 366-396.
- 鈥淟odovico Capponi and Florentine Funerary Politics鈥�.听The Sixteenth Century Journal 51 (Fall 2020): 643-668.
- 鈥淢ichelangelo, Vittoria Colonna and the Afterlife of Intimacy鈥�.听The Art Bulletin 99 (2017): 65-97.
- 鈥淧ictorial Theology and the Paragone in Pontormo鈥檚 Capponi Chapel鈥�.听Art History 40 (2017): 938-963.
- 鈥淭he Offense of Romanitas: Tintoretto at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco鈥�.听Confraternitas 21 (2010): 43-51.
