Megan Holmes Associate Professor PhD Harvard University

Note: Megan Holmes will be on leave for fall '09 and winter '10 terms.

Megan Holmes is an Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance art history at the University of Michigan. Her scholarly interests include Italian Renaissance social and cultural history, monasticism and the arts, popular religion, and early modern print culture. She is currently working on a book on image cults and the material and visual culture of the religious sanctuary in Renaissance Florence.

Books:

Fra Filippo Lippi the Carmelite Painter. Yale University Press, 1999.

Articles:
"The Elusive Origins of the Cult of the Annunziata in Florence," The Miraculous Image in Late Medieval and Renaissance Culture, eds. E. Thunø and G. Wolf (Rome: 2004).

"Copying Practices and Marketing Strategies in a Fifteenth-Century Florentine Painter's Workshop," Italian Renaissance Cities: Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation, eds. S. Campbell and S. Milner (Cambridge and New York, 2004).

"Neri di Bicci and the Commodification of Artistic Values," in The Art Market in Italy (15th-17th Centuries, eds. M. Fantoni, L. Matthew, S. Matthews Grieco (Ferrara, 2003) 213-223.

"'Behold the Head of the Baptist'. The Engaged Spectator and Filippo Lippi's Feast of Herod," Coming About…A Festschrift for John Shearman, eds. L. Jones and L. Matthew (Cambridge, Mass., 2002) 65-72.

"Disrobing the Virgin: The Madonna Lactans in Fifteenth Century Florentine Art," Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy, eds. S. Matthews Grieco and G. Johnson (Cambridge and New York, 1997) 167-195.