The IAS lists in-progress and completed dissertations within the last five years on all subjects of Italian art. If you are an active member and would like your dissertation listed, please add it to your profile.
Prehistoric / Etruscan Art and Architecture
Marquardt, Savannah, "Stone, Bone, Dirt, and Clay: The Material Eschatology of Burial in Colonial Southern Italy (Mid-5th – 4th century BCE)" (Yale University, Milette Gaifman), 2024
Roman / Late Antique Art
Green, Brandon, "Confronting the Past in the Critical Third Century" (Princeton University, M. Koortbojian), 2023
Pare, Rhiannon, "(Ad)dressing the Gods: Fashioning Identity Through the Divine in the Roman Empire" (Princeton University, M. Koortbojian), 2024
Early Medieval / Romanesque / Gothic Art
Jensen, Claire, "Annunziata Art: Civic Patronage in the Late Medieval Kingdom of Naples" (University of Toronto, J Caskey), 2023
Tucci, Sara, "A new area of graphic particularims? Lombardic writing style in the North-Eastern Adriatic Arc (7th-11th centuries)" (University of Vienna, A. Zajic), 2024
Renaissance / Baroque Art
Arnheim, Rebecca, "Ephemera Made Permanent: Collection and Display of Portrait Drawings in Early Modern Italy" (Boston University, J. Cranston), 2024
Cruz Lamas, Joaquin, "The Spiritual Counter-Conquest of Mexico: Baroque Architecture and Religious Identity in Puebla" (King's College London, B. Quash and J. Sliwka), 2024
Feller, Deborah, "Traces of Trauma in the Drawings of Jusepe de Ribera" (Rutgers University, C. Puglisi), 2023
Flora, Karin, "The Grisaille Image: Encounters between Art and Matter" (Ohio State University, C. Kleinbub), 2024
Husband, Jillian, "Girolamo Savoldo: Artistic Plurality and Censure in the Renaissance" (University of Toronto, G. Periti), 2024
Maloney, Annie, "Saving Roman Painting: The Antiquarian Reproductions of Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700)" (Emory University, Sarah McPhee), 2023
Marks, Theresa, "Tomb of San Cerbone" (University of Oklahoma, A. Palmer), 2024
Modabber, Angelica, "Holy Calculus: Early Modern Mathematics and Religion in Guarini's Architecture and Writings" (Columbia University, J.A. Cavallo), 2024
Patton, Ashley, "Tangible Women: Marble Sculptures of Female Saints and Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Rome" (University of Minnesota, Steven F. Ostrow), 2023
Roussos, Dimitrios, "ΓΝΩΘΙ ΚΑΙΡΟΝ (gnōthi kairon): Personifications of the Awareness of Time in the Italian Renaissance" (The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London, C. Pearson, and C. Burnett), 2024
Young, Michela, "The Vallombrosans in Florence: neighbourhood, patronage, and identity, 1300-1525" (University of Cambridge, D. Cooper), 2024
Eighteenth- / Nineteenth-Century Art
Daly, Erin, "Dreaming the Past: From Arche to the Epiphanous Moment in the Art of Gustave Moreau" (University of Iowa, D. Johnson), 2024
Maggi, Edoardo, "Photography and Painters, Painting and Photographers: Rome 1875-1911. Somw Considerations About Relations, Usages and Practices." (Sapienza University of Rome, I. Schiaffini, E. Billi), 2023
Modern / Contemporary Art
Lobskaia, Anastasiia, "Interpretation of the Classical Antiquity in the Works of the Italian Artists of the 20th Century" (Saint Petersburg State Institute of Culture, Anna Petrakova), 2023
Martin, Aja, "Dark Matters: Lucio Fontana's Grotesque World" (Rice University, G Hughes), 2023