Periti, Giancarla
Associate Professor
Graduate Department of Art
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Giancarla Periti (Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 2003) has studied and taught in both Italian and American universities. A specialist of Italian Renaissance art, Periti explores the dense intersections between images and texts, vision and space, materials and making. In her current book projects, Periti reconsiders Correggio’s art in light of questions of modernity and examines the reception of Byzantine art in the Renaissance. Periti is the recipient of fellowships from the Bibliotheca Hertziana; Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies; Metropolitan Museum of Art and Social Science and Research Council of Canada, among others. She is also a contributor to the research project Early Modern Sources in Translation: Carlo Cesare Malvasia’s Felsina Pittrice from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. In addition she is a member of the Connecting Art Histories Project, 2014-2017, Getty Foundation: Global and Postglobal Perspectives on Medieval Art and Art History.
Research Interest
Italian Renaissance art and visual culture; Vision and visuality; Space and monasticism; Renaissance historiography and literary criticism.
