2024
Leah R. Clark
IAS Book Prize
Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World
Sara Nair James, Professor Emerita, Mary Baldwin University
IAS Research and Publication Grant
The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Italy: Art, Devotion, and Liturgy in Orvieto
Jessica Mingoia, Rutgers University
IAS Dissertation Research Grant
In Pergula Natus: Apartments of Pompeii and Herculaneum
Camilla Parisi, Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Roma - Ministero della Cultura
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
"Camilla della Valle. To be a woman in a sculptor's atelier in the 18th century"
Renana Bartal, Tel Aviv University
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
"Contemplation and Assumption: Reading the Meditationes Vitae Christi in Perugia"
Charline Fournier Petit, University of Maryland
IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars
"Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi and the Revival of Carrara"
Savannah Marquardt, Yale University
IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars
"The Ritual Ecology of Metaponto: Pantanello, Tomb 126"
2023
Jensina Endresen, University of Colorado Denver
IAS/Kress Lecture ESC Travel Grant
Christopher Platts, University of Cincinnati
IAS Research and Publication Grant
Exporting the Splendors of Venice: Paolo Veneziano and Venetian Gothic Painting in the Mediterranean World
Katherine Coty, University of Washington
IAS Research and Publication Grant
Maniera Etrusca: Gardens, Vernacular Landscape, and Regional Identity in Sixteenth Century Tuscia
Graylin Harrison, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
IAS Dissertation Research Grant
City of Skulls: Art, Ritual, and the Afterlife in Early Modern Naples (ca. 1550-1700)
Kendra Grimmett, University of Pennsylvania
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
Emulating 'The Courtier’ in ‘The Honeysuckle Bower’
Negar Rokhgar, Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
Turbans, Crusaders, and the Dynamics of the Anti-Ottoman Campaign in the Piccolomini Library
Abigail Upshaw, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Wilmington
IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars
Mulberry Trees and Textile Machines: Leonardo da Vinci and Ludovico Sforza’s Automated Textile Mill
Shannah Rose, PhD Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars
Towards an Antiquity of the New World: Receptions of Mexican Pictography in Early Modern Rome
Wilfried Keil, Privatdozent, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
Remarks on the Use of Architectural Spolia in Churches of Medieval Southern Italy
Caroline Koncz, Assistant Professor, Angelo State University
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
Picturing Politics: A New Reading of Mansueti's San Marco Paintings
2022
Konstantinos Gravanis, Independent Scholar
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
Safe Delivery and Theft on the Road of Gold-and-Silk: The Lost Tapestry of Leo X for the Sistine Chapel
Dr. Diana Bullen Presciutti, Professor of Art History, University of Essex
IAS Research and Publication Grant
Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art
Dr. Leah R. Clark, Associate Professor and Director of Studies, University of Oxford
IAS Research and Publication Grant
Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects Between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World
Jillianne Laceste, Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University
IAS Dissertation Research Grant
Creating Columbus: The Visual Culture of Colonial Encounters in Early Modern Genoa
Margo Weitzman, Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers University
IAS Dissertation Research Grant
Mediated and Constructed Realities: India through the Eyes of Early Modern Italian Merchants
Emily Wood
IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars
“‘She Will Provide the Rest’: Philip II, Empire, and the Promise of New World Silver”
Lorenzo Vigotti
IAS Conference Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars
“Female Actors and Gendered Spaces Inside the Florentine Home in Late Trecento”
Kelli Wood
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
“Digitizing Early Modern Board Games”
Karen McCluskey
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
“Holy Men and Artful Nuns: what paintings reveal about the lived experience of Trecento women”
Kelley Di Dio
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
“Risk and Risk Aversion in Sculpture Shipments: The Case of Pompeo Leoni’s Sculptures for the Escorial”
2021
Dr. Jennifer Griffiths, Art Historian and Academic Coordinator, University of Georgia Cortona Program
IAS Research and Publication Grant
Marisa Mori and the Futurists
Dr. Joanne Allen, Senior Professorial Lecturer in Art History, American University
IAS Research and Publication Grant
Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence
Alexa McCarthy, PhD candidate, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
IAS Dissertation Research Grant
“Blue Paper in Amsterdam and the Italian Tradition”
Lucia Colombari, PhD candidate, University of Virginia
IAS Dissertation Research Grant
“Conflicting Cultures: Exhibiting Italy at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco”
2018
Antonio Urquízar, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
Early Modern Spanish Descriptions of North African Architecture
Alessandro Vanoli, Independent Scholar, Rome
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
Hercules in Sicily: The Mediterranean Past in Fifteenth-Century African and Spanish Sources
Alessandro Vanoli, Independent Scholar, Rome Italy
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
“Hercules in Sicily: The Mediterranean Past in Fifteenth-Century African and Spanish Sources”
2016
Giuseppa Zanichelli, Università degli Studi di Salerno
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
Female Patronage in Rome in the Eleventh Century
Christiane Martina Elster, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
Papal Textile Gifts in the Late Thirteenth Century—Objects, Actors, Functions
Guendalina Serafinelli, Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” Rome
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
When Friendship Matters: Giacinto Brandi and the Privy Chamberlain of Pope Innocent X Pamphilj
Anna Marazuela Kim, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
Reformations of the Idol in Maerten van Heemskerck’s St. Luke and the Virgin (ca. 1550s)
Pietro Roccasecca, Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
Disegno: The Intersection of Representation and Knowledge
Sabina de Cavi, Universidad de Córdoba
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
Early Modern Theory of Linear Drawing in Italy and Spain: the Pre-history of Design
Klaus Krüger, Freie Universität, Berlin
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
The Evidence of Images
Alexis Culotta, American Academy of Art, Chicago
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
Co-opetition and Its Basis in Renaissance Art History: An Overview
Giada Damen, The Morgan Library and Museum
IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant
Relics of the Antique Gods in Sixteenth Century Venice