Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director
Chriscinda Henry鈥檚 research focuses on the role of the arts in social life and intellectual culture in Renaissance Europe. Her book听Playful Pictures: Art, Leisure, and Entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance Home听(Penn State University Press, 2022), draws connections between the visual arts, literature, music, and theater in late fifteenth and sixteenth-century domestic life. She also recently co-edited the volume听Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy听with musicologist Tim Shephard (Routledge, 2023). Current projects include articles on the Renaissance studiolo as an ecology of self-care and on the origins and early history of the dedicated Venetian music study.
Selected publications:
鈥淭he Convergence of Sacred and Secular in Vittore Carpaccio鈥檚 British Museum Concert,鈥� in Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy, eds. Tim Shephard and Chriscinda Henry (London and New York: Routledge, 2023), 223-244.
鈥�,鈥澨�Early Music听51/1 (2023): 25鈥�38. [Online open access]
With Matteo Soranzo, 鈥淧oetic Matters: Giovanni Aurelio Augurello (1441-1524), Materiality, and the Visual Arts,鈥澨�Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Inquiry听38/4 (2022): 448-63. [Open access]
"Courtesans as Collectors and Tastemakers in Renaissance Italy," in听When Michelangelo Was Modern: Collecting, Patronage and the Art Market in Italy, 1450-1650, ed. Inge Reist (Brill, 2022), pp. 76鈥�97.
听(Penn State University Press, 2022).