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Sean E. RobertsAssistant Professor of Art HistoryContact Information E-mail: seanrobe@usc.edu Phone: (213) 821-5229 Office: VKC 351 |
Biographical Sketch |
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I was trained in the history of Renaissance art, focusing on manuscript and printed maps deployed as diplomatic gifts between the Italian city-states and the Ottoman empire. While my dissertation research investigated Italian printmaking and cartography in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, my interests span wide chronological and geographic boundaries to include the relationship between the histories of science, art, and ideology across Europe between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. I am particularly interested in the reception and negotiation of artistic technologies, including printing and mapping, between early modern Christian and Islamic societies. I am presently engaged in research on the representation of race, ethnicity and religion in sixteenth-century Venetian painting, especially in the work of Jacopo Tintoretto. Examination of the implicit tensions between local history and frameworks of cultural interaction in early modern visual culture provides a unifying thread to this range of topics. My teaching interests include exploring the role of art as a cultural intermediary in the Mediterranean, the representation of race in the early modern world, and intersections of technology and visual culture, including printmaking, book production, and mapping in Northern and Southern Europe. The ideology of art historical practice also serves as a central focus of my teaching. I have taught undergraduate courses on the history of printed images and the role of cultural exchange in Renaissance art. My book "Printing a Mediterranean World: Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography" was published by Harvard University Press in 2013. A volume co-edited with Tim McCall and Giancarlo Fiorenza will appear from Truman State University press in the Spring of this year on the subject of "Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe." |
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Education |
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 Ph.D. History of Art, University of Michigan, 8/2006
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B.A. Art History, University of New Hampshire, 5/1999
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Postdoctoral Training |
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Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Tufts University, 2006-2007
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| Early Modern Italian Art, History of Cartography, Print and Book Culture | |
Publications |
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Book |
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 Roberts, S., McCall, T., Fiorenza, G.
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Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press. You can read about this book here
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 Roberts, S.
(2013).
Printing a Mediterranean World: Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. You can read about this book here
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Book Chapter |
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Roberts, S., McCall, T.
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"Revealing Early Modern Secrecy". Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe/ Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press.
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Roberts, S.
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"Tricks of the Trade: The Technical Secrets of Early Engraving". Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe/ Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press.
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Book Review |
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Roberts, S.
(2013).
Guido Guerzoni, Apollo and Vulcan: The Art Markets in Italy, 1400-1700. Journal of Modern History.
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Roberts, S.
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James Dougal Fleming Ed. The Invention of Discovery, 1500-1700 (Asghate 2011). Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science.
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Roberts, S.
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James G. Harper, The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye. Journal of Early Modern History.
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Journal Article |
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Roberts, S.
(2014).
Inventing Engraving in Vasari's Florence. Intellectual History Review.
Vol. Winter, 2014
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Roberts, S.
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Silence and Secrets in Domenico Fetti's Portrait of a Man with a Sheet of Music. Renaissance Studies.
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Roberts, S.
(2011).
Francesco Rosselli and Berlinghieri's Geographia Revisited. Print Quarterly.
Vol. 28 (Spring), pp. 4-17.
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Roberts, S.
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Poet and World Painter: Francesco Berlinghieri's 'Geographia' (1482). Imago Mundi: The International Journal of the HIstory of Cartography.
Vol. 62 (2), pp. 145-160.
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Honors and Awards |
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USC "Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences" Research Grant, 2010-2011
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USC/Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute Faculty Fellowship,
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2009
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