A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence
confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plague Plague remains the paradigm …

Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–
1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by …

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, despite its best efforts, the Urbe found
itself sharing a variety of sanitary calamities with countries of the most diverse latitudes: in …

This dissertation follows several paths toward an understanding of the life and career of
Pietro da Cortona (1597–1669) and his contribution to Italian painting in the latter half of the …

The visual representation of infirmity and disease in early modern Italy has until recently
tended to have been studied through simplistic models of retrospective diagnosis imposed …

There has been much speculation about how the historical phenomena of the COVID-19
pandemic will change women's careers in the future. Yet to be considered is how the …

Following an outbreak of bubonic plague epidemic in northern Italy, the French painter
Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) started a composition known as The Plague of Ashdod. The …

Strangers on Earth is a creative fiction project structured as a collection of short stories,
accompanied by several illustrations. These stories follow several principal characters, all of …

This dissertation interprets the work and career of the Roman architect Carlo Rainaldi in light
of his social ambitions, education, musical pursuits, and knowledge of art and architectural …