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Eunice D Howe

Professor of Art History

Contact Information
E-mail: howe@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-4552
Office: VKC 351

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Curriculum Vitae
Faculty Profile on Departmental Website
 

Biographical Sketch

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Education

Ph.D. Art and Architectural History, Johns Hopkins University, 12/1977
M.A. Italian Renaissance Art, Villa Schifanoia Graduate School of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy, 1/1972
B.A. Art History, Mount Holyoke College, 1/1970
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Chair, Department of Art History, University of Southern California, 2008-2009   
Assistant-Full Professor, University of Southern California, 01/08/1977-08/01/2009  
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Early Modern/Italian Renaissance: 15th-16th Century Art and Architecture. Eunice Howe specializes in Italian Renaissance art and architecture. Her interests include gender and the built environment, travel literature, Renaissance urbanism, papal patronage and 15th century Roman painting. She is working on a book titled The Art and Architecture of Healing; Hospitals in Early Modern Italy, 1400-1600 that examines how hospital design defined individual health within a larger social sphere. In 2005, her Art and Culture at the Sistine Court: Platina’s “Life of Sixtus IV” and the Frescoes of the Hospital of Santo Spirito [Studi e Testi] was published by the Vatican Library.
 

Research Keywords

Italian Renaissance painting, sculpture, architecture, patronage, gender, vatican, popes
 

Conferences and Other Presentations

Conference Presentations

" "What’s in a Name? Local Roman Painters at the Sistine Court (1471-1484)" ", Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Talk/Oral Presentation, Huntington Library, Invited, 2009-2010   
""Rome inside the Box: The Universal Monastery of Pius V (1566-72)"", Renaissance Society of America, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed Miami, Invited, 2006-2007   
"Session Chair, "Court, Gender and Spaces of Retreat"", The Politics of Space, Moderator, Huntington Library, Society for Court Studies, USC-Huntington Early M, Invited, 2006-2007   
"Session Chair-"Sacred, Corporate and Civic Spaces in Italian Art"", 42nd International Congress On Medieval Studies, Moderator, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Italian Art Studies, Invited, 2006-2007   
"Session Chair--"Gender and the Other"", Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Moderator, Huntington Library, Invited, 2006-2007   
 

Publications

Book Chapter

Howe, E. D. (2008). "Traces of the Lost Ciborium of the Corsia Sistina in Santo Spirito in Sassia". pp. 25. Rome: Andrea Bregno. Il senso della forma nella cultura artistica del Rinascimento,Ministero per i Beni Cutlurali, 2008..
Howe, E. D. (2006). Travel and Movement in Medieval Italy, 500-1500. pp. 25. Ashgate.
Howe, E. D. (2006). "Out of the Shadows; Architecture in 15th Century Roman Painting". pp. 20. Rome: Pio II e Le Arti al debuto del Rinascimento, Roma.
 

Book Review

Howe, E. D. (2009). Review of J. Kleimann and M. Rohlmann, Italian Frescoes: High Renaissance and Mannerism, 1510-1600, New York, 2004 and S. Roettgen Italian Frescoes: The Baroque Era, 1600-1800, New York, 2007. Renaissance Quarterly. pp. 528-530.
Howe, E. D. (2009). Review of J. Henderson, The Renaissance Hospital, Healing the body and Healing the Soul, New Haven, 2006. Journal of the Scoiety of Architectural Historians. pp. 4.
Howe, E. D. (2007). V. Hart and P. Hicks, eds., Palladio's Rome. CAA Reviews.
 

Journal Article

Howe, E. D. Inside the Box; Enclosure and the Universal Monastery of Pius V (1566-72). Undecided.
 

Honors and Awards

Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Fall 2007   
 
 
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