Patricia Emison

Professor at the University of New Hampshire, Patricia Emison is the author of several books on the Italian Renaissance, including ^The Italian Renaissance and Cultural Memory^ (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and a book on the discipline of art history, ^The Shaping of Art History^ (Penn State, 2008). She has organized or contributed to a number of exhibitions, most recently ^Myth, Allegory and Faith: The Kirk Edward Long Collection of Mannerist Prints,^ curated by Bernard Barryte, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2015, and ^Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael, ^ curated by Edward Wouk, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK, 2016. Her chapter in A Cultural History of Memory, 6 vols., eds. Alessandro Arcangeli and Marek Tamm (Stefan Berger and Jeffrey Olick, general editors), 2020, is titled ``Ideas: Philosophy, Religion, History, 1450-1700.'' ^Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History,^ was published by Amsterdam University Press, 2021. ^Art and its Observers,^ was published by Vernon Press, 2022.
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463724036/moving-pictures-and-renaissance...
https://vernonpress.com/book/1477
CV at: https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=art_fa...
Research Interests
- Art History of the Renaissance
- Film history
- Printmaking
Courses Taught
- ARTH 400: Top in Art History/Art Writers
- ARTH 444: Hon/Intro Renaissance Culture
- ARTH 480: Introduction to Art History
- ARTH 583: Baroque Art
- ARTH 681: Early Renaissance Art
- ARTH 695/795: Top in Art Hist/ Prints & Film
- ARTH 796: Independent Study: Art History
- ARTS 400: Topics in Art Hist/Art Writers
- ARTS 444: Honr/Intro to Renaissance Cult
- ARTS 480: Introduction to Art History
- ARTS 681: Early Renaissance Art
- ARTS 682: The High Renaissance
- ARTS 700H: Honors Seminar
- ARTS 796: Ind Stdy/Art History
Selected Publications
Emison, P. (2021). Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History. Amsterdam University Press. Retrieved from https://www.aup.nl/
Emison, P. (2016). Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael, and the Image Multiplied.
Emison, P. (2012). The Italian Renaissance and cultural memory. Cambridge University Press.
Emison, P. (2008). The shaping of art history: meditations on a discipline. Penn State Press.
Emison, P. (2008). Developing a twenty-first century perspective on the Renaissance. Renaissance Theory.
Emison, P. (2006). The Arts in Replication. In J. Paoletti, & R. Crum (Eds.), Renaissance Florence: A Social History.