Studies in Iconography, Volume 40 (2019)

"Studies in Iconography" is an annual journal hosted by the Index of Medieval Art and published in partnership with Medieval Institute Publications. It presents innovative work on the meaning of images from the medieval world broadly construed, between the fourth century to the year 1600.

Meryl Bailey is Assistant Professor of Art History at Mills College, where she focuses on Venetian art and architecture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Recent publications include "Punishment as Brotherly Love: Antonio Zanchi's Expulsion of the Profaners from the Temple and the Venetian Conforteria" (Artibus et Historiae, 2016) and "Carrying the Cross in Early Modern Venice" (Space, Place & Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City, ed. Diana Bullen Presciutti, Brill, 2017). Dr. Bailey's current research project focuses on the business of engraving in Venice in the late sixteenth century, exploring collaborative interactions between painters, printmakers, and patrons. Her work has been funded by generous grants and fellowships from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, and other organizations. Patricia Blessing is Assistant Professor of Medieval and Islamic Art History at Pomona College. She is the author of Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rum, 1240-1330 (Ashgate, 2014) and co-editor, with Rachel Goshgarian, of Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500 (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Blessing's current projects focus on 15th-century Ottoman architecture, the materiality of architecture and textiles in the medieval Mediterranean, and the historiography of Islamic architecture. Her work has been supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the International Center of Medieval Art, the Society of Architectural Historians, the Barakat Trust, and the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Theresa Flanigan is Professor of Art History at The College of Saint Rose. She holds her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and has been a foreign fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Her current research focuses on women's speech and emotional expression in late medieval and Renaissance art and the historical understanding of emotional response to images in these periods. Her recent related publications include "Art, Memory, and the Cultivation of Virtue: The Ethical Function of Images in St. Antoninus' Opera a ben vivere," Gesta 53 (2014): 175-95; "Disciplining the Tongue: Archbishop Antoninus, the Opera a ben vivere, and the Regulation of Women's Speech in Renaissance Florence," Open Arts Journal 4 (2015): 41-60; and "Women's Speech in the Tornabuoni Chapel," Artibus et Historiae, 38 (2017): 205-30. She is also completing a book on The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence. Dennis Trout is Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His most recent book is Damasus of Rome: The Epigraphic Poetry (Oxford 2015) and he is currently preparing a monograph on the monumental verse of late ancient Rome. Lucy Freeman Sandler is Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History, emerita, at New York University, the institution from which she received her Ph.D in 1964. Her main field of interest is manuscript illumination. Her most recent book publications are Illuminators and Patrons in Fourteenth-Century England: The Psalter and Hours of Humphrey de Bohun and the Manuscript Patronage of the Bohun Family (London: British Library, 2014) and (with Bernard Bousmanne), Der Peterborough-Psalter, The Peterborough Psalter, Le psautier de Peterborough, Commentary on the Facsimile Edition (Luzern: Quaternio Verlag, 2016). She was editor of the College Art Association Monograph Series (1970-75, 1986-80), Gesta (1991-94), and co-editor of Studies in Iconography (2009-15). She has held fellowships from the American Association of University Women (1960), the National Endowment for the Humanities (1967, 1977), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1988), and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2010) and is a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and the Society of Antiquaries of London.