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Sheryl ReissLecturerContact Information E-mail: sreiss@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-2948 Office: VKC 351 |
Biographical Sketch |
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Education |
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 Ph.D. Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 1992
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M.A. Art History, Williams College, 1979
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B.A. Art History major, classics minor, Wayne State University, 1977
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| Italian Renaissance art and architecture with particular interest in the history of patronage and collecting. Also women and gender; archaism in early modern art; artistic and intellectual exchange between Italy and Northern Europe; and funerary art and commemoration. | |
Conferences and Other Presentations |
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Conference Presentations |
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""Claiming Authorship: Artists, Patrons, and Strategies of Self-promotion in Medieval and Early Modern Italy (co-organized with Babette Bohn, Texas Christian University)", College Art Association Annual Meeting, Roundtable/Panel, Abstract, New York, NY, Italian Art Society, 2010-2011
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""Tales from the Streets of Early Modern Europe."", Reniassance Society of America, Roundtable/Panel, Refereed Abstract, Montreal, Canada, 2010-2011
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". "The Patronage of the Medici Popes at San Lorenzo in the Historiographic Tradition." ", Renaissance Society of America, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Venice, Italy, Villa I Tatti, 2009-2010
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"Visual Culture at Court in Early Modern Europe (two panels proposed)", Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Roundtable/Panel, Refereed Abstract, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, Renaissance Conference of Southern California, 2009-2010
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" "Signing the Work: Signatures of Medici Patrons as Indicators of Status and Identity."", "Der Künstler und sein Werk:Signaturen europäischer Künstler vom Mittelalter bis zum Barock.", Talk/Oral Presentation, Berlin, Germany. Humboldt University, Invited, 2008-2009
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""Transalpine Exchange: North and South in Renaissance Art at the Norton Simon Museum."", Lecture/Seminar, Pasadena, CA. Norton Simon Museum, Invited, 2008-2009
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"JULIUS DE MEDICIS LEONIS X FRATER PATRUELIS: Giulio de' Medici - First Cousin and "braccio destro" to Pope leo X", RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA MEETING, Talk/Oral Presentation, Los Angeles, 2008-2009
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Publications |
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Book Chapter |
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Reiss, S. E. "Secular Women Patrons in Europe 1300-1700". The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender Ashgate.
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Reiss, S. E. "The Patronage of the Medici Popes at San Lorenzo in the Historiographic Tradition,"invited contribution to San Lorenzo: A Florentine Church, ed. Robert Gaston and Louis A. Waldman. San Lorenzo: A Florentine Church Florence: Villa I Tatti.
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Reiss, S. E. "A Taxonomy of Art Patronage in Early Modern Italy," invited contribution to Mapping Renaissance and Baroque Art: Essays on Culture and Ideas, 1300-1700, ed. Babette Bohn and James M. Saslow. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
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 Reiss, S. E.
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"Per havere tucte le opere … da Monsignore Rev.mo: Artists Seeking the Favor of "Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici," in The Possessions of a Cardinal: Art, Piety, and Politics, 1450-1700, ed. Mary Hollingsworth and Carol Richardson. The Possessions of a Cardinal: Art, Piety, and Pol pp. 113-131. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
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Reiss, S. E.
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"From "Defender of the Faith" to "Suppressor of the Pope": Visualizing the Relationship of Henry VIII to the Medici Popes Leo X and Clement VII," under contract for publication in Henrici-Medici Artistic Links between the Early Tudor Courts and Medicean Florence, ed. Cinzia M. Sicca and Louis A. Waldman. New Haven: Villa I Tatti/Yale University Press.
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Reiss, S. E.
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"Pope Clement VII and the Decorum of Medieval Art," forthcoming in Revisioning the High Renaissance, ed. Jill Burke. Aldershot, UK/Burlington, Vt: Submitted to Ashgate.
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Other |
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Reiss, S. E.
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Six catalogue entries in From Raphael to the Carracci: The Art of Papal Rome, ed. David Franklin, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. National Gallery of Canada.
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Service to the Profession |
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Committees |
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Member, Nominating Committee, Italian Art Society, 02/2010-02/2013
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Editorships and Editorial Boards |
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Editor Designate, caa.reviews, 07/01/2010-06/30/2011
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Editorial board member for book series, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 2004-2009
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Professional Memberships |
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Renaissance Conference of Southern California, 2006-
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Italian Art Society, 1990-
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Renaissance Society of America, 1990-
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Sixteenth Century Studies, 1990-
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College Art Association, 1986-
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