Associate Professor
Chriscinda Henry’s research focuses on the role of the arts in social life and intellectual culture in Renaissance Europe. Her book Playful Pictures: Art, Leisure, and Entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance Home (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 Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy 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:
“The Convergence of Sacred and Secular in Vittore Carpaccio’s British Museum Concert,” in Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy, eds. Tim Shephard and Chriscinda Henry (London and New York: Routledge, 2023), 223-244.
“Will She or Won’t She? The Ambivalence of Female Musicianship in Two Concert Paintings by Bernardino Licinio,” Early Music 51/1 (2023): 25–38. [Online open access]
With Matteo Soranzo, “Poetic Matters: Giovanni Aurelio Augurello (1441-1524), Materiality, and the Visual Arts,” Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Inquiry 38/4 (2022): 448-63. [Open access]
"Courtesans as Collectors and Tastemakers in Renaissance Italy," in When Michelangelo Was Modern: Collecting, Patronage and the Art Market in Italy, 1450-1650, ed. Inge Reist (Brill, 2022), pp. 76–97.
Playful Pictures: Art, Leisure, and Entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance Home (Penn State University Press, 2022).