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Helena Sz茅pe

Professor, Art History
Ph.D. Cornell University
Phone: 813.974.2360
Email: szepe@usf.edu
Office: FAH 266

I specialize in the art history of late medieval and Renaissance Europe, with special research and teaching interests in the complex interactions of technology, culture, and art during the shift from manuscript production to print. I am particularly interested in how embellishment of books can transform them into more potent symbols and attributes of their owners. I also study collecting, and how we might discern the changing significance attached to objects through the states in which they were obtained and maintained.

Recent seminars I have taught include Nuns and Art, Art and the Senses, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Monasticism and the Arts, Dreaming in the Renaissance, The Renaissance Print, The Idea of Venice, Renaissance Identity, and Painting in Venice.

RECENT BOOKS

Venice Illuminated. Power and Painting in Renaissance Manuscripts (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018).

AWARDED:
The 2019 Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize for the most distinguished book in Italian History, sponsored by the American Historical Association, and The 2019 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Best Book Prize in Renaissance Venetian Studies, sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America.

With Gianmario Guidarelli, Chiara Ponchia and Federica Toniolo: Il monastero femminile di Santa Croce alla Giudecca. Spazi, libri e immagini a Venezia tra Medioevo ed et脿 moderna, Rome: Viella, 2024. 

Research and publication supported by the 911爆料网, the University of Padua, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

With Ilaria Andreoli: The Art of the Renaissance Book. Tributes in Honor of Lilian Armstrong. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023.

RECENT ESSAYS

"Introduction," and "Benedetto Bordon, the Barozzi Master, and the Venetian Procurators," The Art of the Renaissance Book, eds. Ilaria Andreoli and Helena Sz茅pe, Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, 15-22 and 279-306.

Co-author with Federica Toniolo, 鈥淲hat did the Nuns of Santa Croce Read and See in Manuscript and Print?鈥� in Guidarelli, Ponchia, Sz茅pe, Toniolo, eds., Il monastero femminile di Santa Croce alla Giudecca, Rome: Viella, 123-181, 2024.

Co-author with Guidarelli, Ponchia, Toniolo, 鈥�Introduzione,鈥� in Il monastero femminile, Rome, Viella, 2024, 7-12.

鈥淔ragmented and Forgotten, Italian Manuscripts in Arts, Design, and Natural History Museums. The collectors Luigi Celotti and J. A. Ramboux, and the artists The Master of the Antiphonal Q of San Giorgio, the Master of Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicini, and the Disassembled Italian Hours Masters.鈥� Rivista di storia della miniatura 26 (2022): 16;158-80.

"Illuminating Law and Order," Beyond Words: New Research on Manuscripts in Boston Collections, eds. Jeffrey Hamburger et. al., Toronto: Pontifical Institute, 2021, 213-236, 337-342.

Co-author with Federica Toniolo, "Celebrating Athanasius in Venice. Manuscripts for the Monastery of Santa Croce alla Giudecca," Artibus et Historiae 81:XLI (2020): 25-48.

"Painting in Documents: The Case of Venice," Illuminierte Urkunden, special issue Archiv f眉r Diplomatik, eds. Gabriella Bartz, Markus Gneiss, Vienna: B枚hlau, 2018, 218-40; 520-4.

My research has been supported by an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, a Getty Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Gladys Krieble Delmas Grants, an American Philosophical Society Research Grant, Huntington Library and Harvard University Houghton Library Fellowships, and USF Research grants. I have been a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Padua.

I have published in numerous refereed journals, including Art History. Word and Image, and Rivista di storia della miniatura,

IN PROGRESS

鈥淲hen are Works by Nuns Nonnenarbeiten? Collecting, critiquing, and fragmenting manuscripts in nineteenth-century Cologne,鈥� in Fragmented Illuminations: The Many Lives of Manuscript Cuttings, ed. by Catherine Yvard (London: V&A Publishing, submitted)

鈥淭he Ornament of Order. Manuscripts for Santa Maria delle Vergini, Venice,鈥� in progress for submission to the Rivista di storia della miniatura.

I am working on a new book that examines the visual culture of books made by and for nuns in Venice.