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
Ruppar, Rebecca, "Early Franciscan Painted Panels as a Response to the Italian Cathars" (University of Missouri, A. Stanton), 2020
Renaissance / Baroque Art
Avilio, Carlo, "Naturalism and the Picaresque in Jusepe de Ribera's Work" (Warwick University, L. Pericolo), 2016
Bell, Maggie, "Healing Walls: Visualizing Bodily, Social and Spiritual Care in the Pellegrinaio Frescoes at the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena" (University of California, Santa Barbara, R. Williams (deceased) and M. Meadow), 2019
Bova, Sara, "Cardinal Marco Barbo (1420-1491) and his architectural patronage in Rome and in the Republic of Venice" (Università IUAV di Venezia, V. Zanchettin), 2017
D'Addio, Sophia, "Painted Organ Shutters in Renaissance Italy" (Columbia University, M. Cole), 2020
Evrard, Clarisse, ""Ut maiolica epica" : painting chilvaric world in 16th century Italian maiolica" (University of Lille - École du Louvre, P. Michel and T. Crépin-Leblond), 2019
Foner, Daria, "Collaborative Endeavors in the Career of Andrea del Sarto" (Columbia University, M. Cole), 2020
Giffin, Erin, "Body and Apparition: Material Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italian Religious Sculpture" (University of Washington, S. Lingo), 2017
Harpster, Grace, "Carlo Borromeo's Itineraries: The Sacred Image in Post-Tridentine Italy" (UC Berkeley, T. Olson), 2018
Hilliam, Amanda, "Beyond Painting: Carlo Crivelli's Celestial Fictions" (, ), 2020
Howard, Rebecca, "Movements of the Mind: Beyond the Mimetic Likeness in Early Modern Italy" (Ohio State University, C. Kleinbub), 2017
Kim, Allison, "Vasari as Painter: Imitation, Invention, and Professional Identity" (, ), 2019
Offill, Ashley, "The Corsini Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine: Framing the Relic Cult of Saint Andrea Corsini in Baroque Florence" (University of Kansas, S. Cornelison), 2020
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
Schockmel, Bryn, "The Historical Procession of Andrea Mantegna's "Triumphs of Caesar": From Mantua to Hampton Court" (Boston University, J. Cranston), 2019
Sorrentino, Vincenzo, "Between Florence, Rome, and Naples: the del Riccios’ artistic commissions and cultural relations from the 16th to the 17th century" (University of Pisa, C.M. Sicca), 2018
Wallace, Catharine, "“Cultivating Egyptian All’Antica Imagery as Emblems of Rome in the Sixteenth Century”" (Temple University, Tyler School of Art, M. Hall), 2020
Yuen, Melissa, "The Young Mattia Preti in Rome: Style, Baroque Painting, and the Art Market, c. 1630-1653" (Rutgers University, C. Puglisi), 2017
Eighteenth- / Nineteenth-Century Art
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), 2020
Modern / Contemporary Art
Bick, Tenley, "Figure as Model: The Early Work of Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1956–1966" (University of California, Los Angeles, G. Baker), 2016
Brown, Laura, "The architectural design and planning legacies of the European Summer Olympic Games 1948-2012" (Northumbria University, M. Cresciani), 2020
Larson, Katie, "Alberto Burri in Rome, 1946-1960" (Baylor University, M. Fried), 2017