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
No disserations currently listed in this category.
Roman / Late Antique Art
No disserations currently listed in this category.
Early Medieval / Romanesque / Gothic Art
Jensen, Claire, "Annunziata Art: Trecento Frescoes in Sant'Agata de' Goti" (University of Toronto, J Caskey), 2022
Renaissance / Baroque Art
Anka, Jaiya, "“Queens, Saints, and Sultanas: Interwoven Identities as Portrait in the Sixteenth Century”" (The University of Victoria, E. Campbell), 2023
Arnheim, Rebecca, "Ephemera Made Permanent: Collection and Display of Portrait Drawings in Early Modern Italy" (Boston University, J. Cranston), 2023
Feller, Deborah, "Traces of Trauma in the Drawings of Jusepe de Ribera" (Rutgers University, C. Puglisi), 2023
Gravanis, Konstantinos, "Sources, Functions and Meaning of Imagery in the Vatican's Raphael Rooms" (University of Kent, T. Henry, B. Thomas), 2021
Haines, Lois, "The Workshop and its Painters: Perugino and the Perugineschi in Florence and Perugia" (The Warburg Institute/ National Gallery, London, Prof. M O'Malley and Dr. M Wivel), 2021
James, Julie, "‘In Those Men See Yourselves’: The Sienese Iconography of Illustrious Men" (Washington University in St. Louis, W. Wallace), 2022
Koncz, Caroline, "Beyond Titian’s Venus: The Nude Body and Social Control in Late Cinquecento Venetian Painting" (Ohio State, C. Kleinbub), 2022
Leshem, Bar, "Didactic Imagery on Sixteenth-Century Italian Cassoni" (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Prof. Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby), 2022
McCarthy, Alexa, "Blue Paper in Amsterdam and the Italian Tradition" (University of St Andrews, E Van Kessel; L Moretti), 2022
McKenzie, Louisa, "Waxing devotion: the economic and devotional lifecycles of wax ex-votos in Florence 1300-1500" (The Warburg Institute, R. Duits), 2022
O'Reilly, Catherine, "Last Supper Refectory Frescoes in Fifteenth-Century Florence: Painting, Performance, Senses, and Space" (Boston University, J. Cranston), 2021
Patton, Ashley, "Tangible Women: Marble Sculptures of Female Saints and Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Rome" (University of Minnesota, Steven F. Ostrow), 2023
Simmons, Elizabeth, "Volterrano as a Draftsman: Style, Technique, and Connoisseurship of Drawings in Seicento Florence" (University of Delaware, D. Stone), 2022
Tonizzo, Gabriele, "La pala d'altare a Venezia tra Tiziano e Tiepolo (1580-1720)" (Università degli Studi di Udine, L. Borean), 2021
Upart, Anatole, ""Ruthenians in Early Modern Rome: Art and Architecture of a Uniate Community, 1596 – 1750”" (University of Chicago, N. Atkinson), 2021
Zappella, Christine, "Monochrome Painting and Il Corpo della Compagnia in Andrea del Sarto's Cloister of the Scalzo" (University of Chicago, Charles E. Cohen), 2022
Eighteenth- / Nineteenth-Century Art
Maggi, Edoardo, "Photography and Painters, Painting and Photographers: Rome 1880-1911. Considerations on Relationships, Ways of Employing, Practices." (Sapienza University of Rome, I. Schiaffini, E. Billi), 2022
Modern / Contemporary Art
Dumont, Anna, "From Design Reform to Fascist Craft: Women's Labor in Italian Textile Work 1870-1945" (Northwestern University, R. Zorach), 2022
Lindeman, Ashley, "L'Arte Murale: Modern Italian Murals and the Expansion of Empire, 1932-1945" (Florida State University, A. Jolles), 2022
Martin, Aja, "Dark Matters: Lucio Fontana's Grotesque World" (Rice University, G Hughes), 2023