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Sally J. Cornelison
Assistant Professor
Italian Renaissance Art






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Tel: (785) 864-5513
Fax: (785) 864-5091

Sally J. Cornelison

Courses Offered:

Art History I: Ancient and Medieval Art
Italian Renaissance Art
Late Medieval Art in Italy
Renaissance Art in Italy: The 15th Century
Renaissance Art in Italy: The 16th Century
Southern Baroque Art
Italian Renaissance Sculpture (seminar)
Michelangelo (seminar)
Saints, Relics, and Shrines: Christianity and Buddhism (seminar, co-taught with Prof. Sherry Fowler)
Medici Patronage in 15th-Century Florence (seminar)
Lorenzo Ghiberti and the Art of Early Renaissance Bronze Sculpture (seminar)

Education:

1998 PhD Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
1993 MA Syracuse University
1988 BA University of Missouri-Columbia

Professional Experience:

2002 Assistant Professor, University of Kansas
2000-2002 Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
1998-2000 Assistant Professor, Savannah College of Art and Design
1995-98 Instructor, Syracuse University, Florence

Publications:

Co-Edited Book:

Images, Relics, and Devotional Practices in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Edited by Sally J. Cornelison and Scott B. Montgomery. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005.

Articles and Book Chapters:

“Tales of Two Bishop Saints. Zenobius and Antoninus in Florentine Renaissance Art and History.” Forthcoming, Sixteenth Century Journal.

"When an Image is a Relic: The St. Zenobius Panel from Florence Cathedral." In Images, Relics, and Devotional Practices in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Edited by Sally J. Cornelison and Scott B. Montgomery, 95-113. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005.

"Lorenzo Ghiberti and the Renaissance Reliquary: The Shrine of the Three Martyrs from Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence." In De Re Metallica: The Uses of Metal in the Middle Ages. Edited by Robert O. Bork with Scott B. Montgomery, Carol Neuman de Vegvar, Ellen M. Shortell, and Steven A. Walton, 163-79. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

"Art Imitates Architecture: The St. Philip Reliquary in Renaissance Florence." Art Bulletin 86 (2004): 642-58.

"A French King and a Magic Ring: The Girolami and a Relic of St. Zenobius in Renaissance Florence." Renaissance Quarterly 55 (2002): 334-69.

"The Tomb of Giovanni di Bicci de'Medici and the Old Sacristy at San Lorenzo." In The Sculpted Object, 1400-1700. Edited by Stuart Currie and Peta Motture, 25-42. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997.

Book Reviews:

Charles R. Mack. Looking at the Renaissance: Essays toward a Contextual Appreciation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006): 155-56.

Visions of Holiness: Art and Devotion in Renaissance Italy. Edited by Andrew Ladis and Shelley E. Zuraw. CAA.Reviews, May 2003.

Translation:

Francesco Caglioti, “Two Neapolitan Renaissance Marble Virtues at the Spencer Museum of Art,” Spencer Museum of Art Register 7, nos. 4-7 (2001-2005): 8-23.

Dictionary Entries:

“Decorative Arts, Painting and Sculpture (technologies of);” “Painting, Techniques of (oil, panel, tempera, fresco);” “Pigments and Inks;” “Gesso;” and “Polyptych (folding object; e.g., altarpiece)” for the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork, forthcoming.

Works in Progress:

Book: Medici Power and Popular Piety: Giambologna’s St. Antoninus Chapel at San Marco, Florence.

Article: “Relocating Fra Bartolomeo at San Marco.”

Research Grants and Awards

  • General Research Fund Humanities Grant, University of Kansas, 2007
  • Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2007
  • International Travel Grant, Office of International Programs, University of Kansas, 2007
  • Ned. N. Fleming Trust award for distinguished teaching, scholarship, and service, 2006
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2006
  • Humanities Research Fellow, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, 2006
  • Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 2006
  • General Research Fund Humanities Grant, University of Kansas, 2004
  • Faculty Travel Grant, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, 2003
  • New Faculty General Research Fund Grant, University of Kansas, 2003

 

 


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