Dr. Cordelia Warr

Biography

Cordelia Warr is a Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Art at the University of Manchester. She studied Fine Art at Newcastle University and History of Art at Nottingham University, ultimately completing her Ph.D. on 'Female Patronage and Female Spirituality in Italian Art of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries' at the University of Warwick in 1994. Prior to her current role, she taught at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Aberdeen, and held positions at the Open University and American University of Rome. Cordelia's research has garnered notable awards including the Leverhulme Trust and British School at Rome. Her primary research interests focus on Italian art from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, notably examining clothing, representation, and the relationship between the spiritual realm and visual culture. She has published extensively on themes of patronage, symbolic meanings of dress, and the liminal nature of garments in Renaissance Italy. Cordelia co-edited a significant volume on wounds and is involved in multiple projects that highlight research in early modern collections. Her work has been presented at various conferences, and her commitment to academic supervision has guided several PhD students through significant art history research.

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