Faculty

Sally Cornelison Associate Professor, Italian Renaissance Art     Phone: 785-864-4713 Fax: 785-864-5091 email

Sally Cornelison’s research and publications explore the relationships between art and architecture and the cult of saints and relics, patronage, ritual, and popular devotion in late medieval and Renaissance Florence.  She is presently preparing a study which traces the history of art and the relic cult of the sainted Florentine archbishop Antoninus Pierozzi from the time of his death in 1459 until his relics were translated to Giambologna’s St. Antoninus Chapel at the Florentine church of San Marco in 1589.

Education:

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

Professional Experience:

2008 Associate Professor, University of Kansas
2002-2008 Assistant Professor, University of Kansas
2000-2002 Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
1998-2000 Professor, Savannah College of Art and Design
1995-1998 Instructor, Syracuse University, Florence

Selected 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:

“Relocating Fra Bartolomeo at San Marco.” Renaissance Studies 23, no. 3 (2009): 311-34 .

“Tales of Two Bishop Saints: Zenobius and Antoninus in Florentine Renaissance Art and History.” Sixteenth Century Journal 38, no. 3 (2007): 627-56.

“When an Image is a Relic: The St. Zenobius Panel from Florence Cathedral.” In Images, Relics, and Devotional Practices in 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 Bork, with Scott Montgomery, Carol Neuman de Vegvar, Ellen Shortell, and Steven Walton, 163-79. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

“Art Imitates Architecture: The St. Philip Reliquary in Renaissance Florence.” Art Bulletin 86, no. 4 (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): 434-69.

“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.

Recent Honors, Grants, and Awards:

• Outstanding Educator Award, Torch Chapter, Mortar Board National Honor Society, University of Kansas, 2008
• Renaissance Society of America-Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento Research Grant for Florence, 2008
• General Research Fund Humanities Grant, University of Kansas, 2007
• American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant, 2007
• International Travel Grant, Office of International Programs, University of Kansas, 2007
• Ned N. Fleming Trust Award for distinguished teaching, scholarship, and service, University of Kansas, 2006
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2006
• Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, July-August, 2006
• Humanities Research Fellowship, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, 2006 (research leave for fall 2006 semester)
• 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

Courses Offered:

Lecture Courses:
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

Recent Graduate Seminar Topics:
Saints, Relics, and Shrines: Christianity and Buddhism (co-taught with Prof. Sherry Fowler)
Medici Patronage in 15th-Century Florence
Ghiberti and the Art of Early Renaissance Bronze Sculpture
The Italian Renaissance Home

Dissertations in Progress:

“Dynamic Doorways: Overdoor Sculpture in Renaissance Genoa”

“Storing Sanctity: Sacristy Reliquary Cupboards in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy”