On leave, 2009-2010

Anne Dunlop teaches and writes about Italian art and culture from the fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century. Her research interests include Europe’s relations with Asia and Africa in the Mongol era, early secular art and culture, the visual shift of circa 1300, and Renaissance ideas of gender.

Professor Dunlop is the author of Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy (Penn State Press, 2009), and co-editor of Art and the Augustinian Order in Early-Renaissance Italy (Ashgate, 2007). She is currently working on two new projects. The first, Gold, Earth, and Stones: Global Exchange and Artistic Change in Italy c. 1300-1500, explores the shift in European painting in the Mongol era, which brought by new materials and contacts with Asia and Africa. The second, Castagno’s Crimes, focuses on the painter Andrea del Castagno and the use of the male figure in Quattrocento art. This year she was awarded fellowships at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti Center for Renaissance Studies, at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery, and at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. She is a two-time Feminae Article-of- the-Month winner, and has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute, a Rome Award fellow at the British School at Rome, and a Commonwealth Scholar.

She taught at Concordia University in Montreal before joining the Yale faculty, where she has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies, and as Visiting Professor at Peking University in the Yale-PKU joint undergraduate program. Among her recent courses are  ‘Silk Road Renaissance,’ ‘Fiction and Imitiation in Pre-modern Art,’ and a survey of Italian Renaissance art with all sections taught in Yale campus collections.


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.