Scott Nethersole
Lecturer
Department of History of Art
Courtauld Institute of Art
United Kingdom
Biography
Scott Nethersole read History of Art as a BA and MA student at The Courtauld, where he specialised in Florentine renaissance art. After four years working for the English furniture department at Sotheby’s, he returned to The Courtauld to take his PhD, writing his thesis on ‘The Representation of Violence in Fifteenth-century Florence’. While writing his doctorate he held the Michael Bromberg Fellowship in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. From 2008 to 2010, he was the Harry M Weinrebe Curatorial Assistant at the National Gallery, London, before returning to The Courtauld to take up the post of Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art in September 2010. Scott curated the exhibition Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500 at the National Gallery in summer 2011. He is currently completing a book entitled Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence.
Research Interest
"Central Italian, especially Florentine, Art of the Fifteenth Century Violence in Art"
Publications
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"Review of exhibition: Bagliori dorati: Il Gotico Internazionale a Firenze, 1375-1440, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, 2012 Nethersole, S. Nov 2013 In : Renaissance Studies. 27, 5, p. 754-64"
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"‘What is Violence? Review of Allie Terry Fritsch and Erin Felicia Labbie with W. J. T. Mitchell, Beholding Violence in Medieval and early Modern Europe’ Nethersole, S. 2014 In : Art History. 37, 5, p. 982-84" v
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"Review of book: Anne Leader, The Badia of Florence: Art and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery Nethersole, S. Jul 2014 In : Burlington Magazine. CVLI, p. 465"
