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
Barber, Samuel, ""The Fitting Face of Empire": Palaces and Power in the Early Middle Ages" (Cornell University, B Anderson), 2021
Early Medieval / Romanesque / Gothic Art
Bordi, Giulia Anna Bianca, "Gli arredi liturgici della Puglia centro-settentrionale nel Medioevo (XI-XIVsecolo): da Bari alla Terra di Bari" (Sapienza Università di Roma, M. Gianandrea), 2022
Pollick, Brian, "The Merchant's Moral Eye: Money, Merchants, and the Visualization of Morality in Trecento Italy" (University of Victoria, C. Harding), 2021
Renaissance / Baroque Art
Arnheim, Rebecca I., "Ephemera Made Permanent: Collection and Display of Portrait Drawings in Early Modern Italy" (Boston University, J. Cranston), 2024
Capulli, Chiara, "Displacement and Reconfiguration: The Effects of the Florentine Guasto of 1529 on Devotional Spaces and Networks of Artistic Patronage" (University of Cambridge, D. Cooper), 2024
Clark, Jasmine, "Drawn into Form: The Theory, Practice, and Agency of Designing All'Antica Silverware in Sixteenth-Century Italy" (The Courtauld Institute of Art, G Rebecchini), 2025
Feller, Deborah, "Traces of Trauma in the Drawings of Jusepe de Ribera" (Independent scholar, ), 2023
Gravanis, Konstantinos, "Sources, Functions and Meaning of Imagery in the Vatican's Raphael Rooms" (University of Kent, T. Henry, B. Thomas), 2022
Grimmett, Kendra, "Grappling with Hercules: Masculinity and the Male Body in Rubens's Time" (University of Pennsylvania, L. Silver), 2022
Hanson, Emily J., "Spectacular Ambition: The Failure and Reception of Leonardo da Vinci's Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza" (Washington University in St. Louis, W. Wallace), 2021
Healy Leckey, Rachel, "Portraits of Giorgio Cornaro and his Heirs: Resolving issues of Identity, Authorship and Patronage in Renaissance Venice" (University College Dublin, P. Cottrell), 2024
Maloney, Annie, "Saving Roman Painting: The Antiquarian Reproductions of Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700)" (Brown University, S. McPhee), 2023
Mascheretti, Lorenzo, "Fra Damiano Zambelli e le arti a Bologna (1528-1549)" (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Alessandro Rovetta), 2023
McKenzie, Louisa, "Waxing devotion: the economic and devotional lifecycles of wax ex-votos in Florence 1300-1500" (The Warburg Institute, R. Duits), 2023
O'Reilly, Catherine, "Painting, Performance, Senses, and Space: Immersing the Viewer in the Last Supper Refectory Frescoes of Fifteenth-Century Florence:" (Boston University, J. Cranston), 2022
Overpelt, Laura, "“By a single painter”. The organization and representation of Giorgio Vasari’s decorative projects in the Palazzo Vecchio" (Open Universiteit, Heerlen, P. Van den Akker), 2022
Paganussi, Caroline, "Bologna la dotta: The University and the Visual Arts in the Age of the Bentivoglio, 1463-1512" (University of Maryland, College Park, M. Gill), 2021
Reddicks Pignataro, Megan, ""The Facture of Non-Linear Perspective in Quattrocento Florence"" (Temple University, M. Hall), 2024
Rockey, Tyler, "The Restoration of Ancient Sculpture in the Renaissance: Ecology, Materiality, and Play" (Temple University, M. Hall), 2025
Sartore, Anna Rebecca, "Giovan Battista Caporali, artista erudito e interprete di Vitruvio. Contesti architettonici tra Perugia e Cortona nella prima metà del Cinquecento" (University of Udine, Donata Battilotti), 2021
Scott, Braden, "Antiquity Expanded: Ancient West Asian and North African Architecture in European Art, c. 1450-1570" (McGill University, A. Vanhaelen; C. Henry), 2023
Segrave, Hannah, "Conjuring Genius: Salvator Rosa and the Dark Arts of Witchcraft" (University of Delaware, D. Stone), 2022
Upart, Anatole, ""Ruthenians in Early Modern Rome: Art and Architecture of a Uniate Community, 1596 – 1750”" (University of Chicago, N. Atkinson), 2021
Vallah, Or, "(Dis)ability and the Making of the Early Modern Artist" (The University of Washington, E. Lingo, S. Lingo), 2025
Zappella Papanastassiou, Christine, "Monochrome Painting and the Period Body in Andrea del Sarto's Cloister of the Scalzo" (University of Chicago, Charles E. Cohen), 2022
Eighteenth- / Nineteenth-Century Art
An, Tairan, "The Incidental Artifactuality of the Observational Sciences in Italy, c. 1840–1880" (Princeton University, Sylvia Lavin), 2024
Trupiano Kowalczyk, Carolina Kristina, "Gaspar van Wittel the Drawings" (University of Perugia, F. Benzi), 2024
Zerbi, Tommaso, "The Tricolour, Shield, and Cross of Savoy: ‘Sabaudian Medievalism,’ the Risorgimento, and Neo-Medieval Architecture in Italy, c.1814–1864" (University of Edinburgh, A. Bremner), 2021
Zerbi, Tommaso, "The Tricolour, Shield, and Cross of Savoy: ‘Sabaudian Medievalism,’ the Risorgimento, and Neo-Medieval Architecture in Italy, c.1814–1864" (University of Edinburgh, A. Bremner), 2021
Modern / Contemporary Art
D'Ambros, Carola, "Interiors and "Synthèse des Arts": A Critical Investigation Methodology. Architects of Milanese Culture between French and Italian Artistic and Architectonical Influences (1948-1972)" (Politecnico di Milano-Université Paris-Saclay, Immacolata Concezione Forino-Annalisa Viati Navone), 2023
Fortuna, James, "Cultural Diplomacy in the Age of Fascism: The 1939 New York World’s Fair" (University of St Andrews, K. Ferris; S. Rose, R. Bavaj), 2024
Lagana', Annalisa, "Artists' letters and the making of cultural heritage in 19th-century Italy" (Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", ), 2021
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
Spina, Davide, "Christian Democrats, Architecture and Capitalist Development in Post-War Italy: Società Generale Immobiliare (SGI), 1945–75" (ETH Zurich, Laurent Stalder, Adrian Forty, Mia Fuller), 2021