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Biography
Rebecca Lowery studies artistic production from the early modern period principally in the Northern Italian cities of Turin and Milan. Her research focuses on patronage and collecting practices within the court environment during the 16th and 17th centuries. She is concerned more generally with questions of artistic geography, materiality, and gender.
Education Details
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, History of Art and Architecture (in progress)
M.A., University of Pittsburgh, History of Art and Architecture
Advisor: Dr. Christopher Nygren
M.A., University of Alabama, Art History
Advisor: Dr. Tanja Jones
B.A., University of Alabama, Art History
Minors in Italian and Anthropology
Selected Presentations
“Economic Morality in the Middle Ages: The Parable of Lazarus and Dives at Moissac,” Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 2023.
“A Statement of Self as Court Artist, Artemisia Gentileschi’s La Pittura,” Newberry Library Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference, Chicago, IL, January 2023.
“Female Patronage at the Stuart Court: Henrietta Maria and Orazio Gentileschi,” UA/UAB 27th Symposium in Art History, Birmingham, AL, March 2022.
“The Court, the Fork, and the Question of Etiquette,” International Conference on Food Studies, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, online, August 2021.