Anne Dunlop works on Italy and Europe from about 1300 to 1550, with a focus on the early Renaissance period. Her research interests include the properties of materials, secular art and culture, gender as an aspect of art and interpretation, and Europe’s relations with East and West in the early-modern period. She is the author of Palace Decoration and the Rise of the Secular, c. 1280-1470 (Pennsylvania State University Press, Winter 2009) and co-editor of Art and the Augustinian Order in Early-Renaissance Italy (Ashgate, 2007). In 2008 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute. She has also been a Rome Award fellow at the British School at Rome, and a Commonwealth Scholar.

Professor Dunlop’s current projects include a book with the working title Gold, Silk, and Stones: Global Exchange and Artistic Change in Italy c. 1300-1500. It explores changes brought by new materials and contacts with Asia and Africa in the wake of the  Mongol conquests. A further study, Castagno’s Crimes, examines the role of the male figure in Andrea del Castagno’s art. At Yale, she teaches courses such as ‘Love and Art at the Renaissance Courts,’ ‘The Quattrocento,’ and ‘Silk Road Renaissance,’ first offered during a 2007 Visiting Professorship at Peking University as part of Yale’s new joint undergraduate program.


Recent and Forthcoming Articles
“Materials, Origins, and the Nature of Early Italian Painting,’ in Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence, ed. Jaynie Anderson (Melbourne: Miengunyah Press, forthcoming).

“Italy, Charles IV, and Court Art,” in Kunst als Herrschaftsinstrument unter den Luxemburgern. Böhmen und das Heilige Römische Reich im Europäischen Kontext, eds. Andrea Langer and Jiri Fajt (Leipzig: Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum für Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas, forthcoming).

“Allegory, Painting, and Petrarch,” Word & Image 24 (2008): 77-91.

“The Dominicans and Cloistered Women: The Convent of Sant’Aurea in Rome,” Journal of Early Modern Women: an Interdisciplinary Journal 2 (2007): 43-72.

“Gli affreschi del Cappellone di San Nicola: un modello mancato?” in San Nicola di Tolentino nell’arte: Corpus iconografico, eds. Valentino Pace et al., 3 vols. (Tolentino: Centro di Studi Agostino Trapè, 2005-2006), 1: 47-63.