Samantha Hughes-Johnson
Samantha Hughes-Johnson is a specialist in the visual culture, social history and confraternities of late medieval and early Renaissance Florence. Her wider interests include Early Modern art, architecture and material culture (north and south of the Alps), the Classics, theology and the Tudor court. She has published various articles on the lay confraternity of the Buonomini di San Martino, poverty, piety and charity in quattrocento Florence, the Pazzi Conspiracy and Pandolfo Rucellai. Samantha is currently working on a new research project entitled, “Picturing Poverty in early Renaissance Tuscany 1400-1490.” The study seeks to locate the necessitous of this region in coeval art and encourage the hidden voices of the Tuscan disadvantaged via a fresh intertextual analysis of visual and literary primary sources along with cultural artefacts.
Website: https://samanthahughesjohnsonarthistorian.wordpress.com/
Posts by Samantha Hughes-Johnson
December 1, 2020
The First Nativity of Saint Francis of Assisi
October 12, 2020
Today is Columbus Day, a national holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas in 1492.
September 13, 2020
On this day (13 September) in 1470, the Badia of Florence acquired a new artwork by the Tuscan sculptor, Mino da Fiesole (Mino di Giovanni).
August 20, 2020
On this day (20 August) in 1995, Ugo Eugenio Pratt (known as Hugo Pratt), the comic book artist and illustrator, died in Grandvaux, Switzerland.
