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Giancarla Periti studied and taught at Italian American universities, specializing in Italian Renaissance art. Periti explores the dense intersections of images, texts, vision, space, and the materials of making. Her current book project revolves around questions of liminality, artistic geography, and the art of Correggio. She has received fellowships from institutions such as the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Villa Tatti of the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, the Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts, the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Social Science Research Council of Canada. Selected Publications include co-editing works like Alessandro Nova's 'Network of Cassinese Arts in Renaissance Italy' and Alexander Nagel's 'Ravenna: Imagination and Renaissance Art.' Additionally, her notable article titled 'On Correggio, Frames, and Borders of the Renaissance Image' was published in RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics. In 2016, she authored 'Courts of Religious Ladies: Art, Vision, and Pleasure in Italian Renaissance Convents.'
University of Toronto • Toronto
Faculty member specializing in Italian Renaissance art.
Department of Sociology