Position
Lecturer
Contact
History of Art: School of Arts, Culture
and Environment (ACE)
The University of Edinburgh
20 Chambers Street
EH1 1JZ
Scotland
United Kingdom
E-mail: Jill.Burke@ed.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 131 651 3120
Fax: +44 (0) 131 650 8019
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Outline Biography
Jill Burke is a specialist in the visual culture of Renaissance Italy. She is currently working on a book entitled "The Renaissance Nude: Nakedness in Italy from Donatello to Michelangelo", which considers cultural attitudes towards the naked body in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; articles on the concept of the High Renaissance; and a number of projects relating to contemporary understandings and applications of renaissance art.
Jill’s first book Changing Patrons: Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence was published in 2004, and was widely reviewed as a major contribution towards the understanding of renaissance art patronage. Since then, as well as continuing to write on the visual arts and society in renaissance Florence, she has published articles on Leonardo da Vinci and meaning in the early sixteenth century, and sexuality and spirituality in High Renaissance Rome. She has also edited two books focussing on Rome - Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome (co-edited with Michael Bury) and Rethinking the High Renaissance (in preparation). Jill has previously held research fellowships in the AHRC Court Culture in Early Modern Rome project, the Dutch Institute for Art History in Florence and the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. She won the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2008 in recognition of her "outstanding" contributions to the field.
Jill has been very active in encouraging collaboration between disciplines and institutions. She is currently the Research Director, and was a founder member, of the new Edinburgh Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies [www.medren.ed.ac.uk]. Jill established the Renaissance and Early Modern Studies in Scotland list [www.jiscmail.ac.uk/remsis], the Edinburgh Collections Seminars and the Renaissance and Early Modern Discussion group. She welcomes research students for single or joint supervision for projects relating to renaissance visual culture.
For more information about Jill's research, visit http://edinburgh.academia.edu/JillBurke
Publications
Books
Changing Patrons: Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004 [http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02362-7.html]
(Co-edited with Michael Bury), Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome (Ashgate Publishing, forthcoming, 2008). [http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=8973&edition_id=9548]
Articles
“The Renaissance Brand: Teaching, Research and the Bottom Line”, Oxford Art Journal special edition of papers from “Mal’Occhio: Looking awry at the Renaissance” conference, forthcoming, 2010.
“Republican Florence and the Arts, 1495-1513” in F. Ames Lewis (ed.), Florence , volume of the Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance series (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2009).
'Florentine Art and the Public Good' in Carol Richardson, Kim Woods and Angeliki Lymberopoulou (eds.), Viewing Renaissance Art (Open University, 2007), 58-90.
'Sex and Spirituality in 1500s Rome: Sebastiano del Piombo's Martyrdom of St Agatha”, Art Bulletin, 88 (2006), pp. 482-495.
'Meaning and Crisis in the Early Sixteenth Century: Interpreting Leonardo's Lion', Oxford Art Journal, 29 (2006), pp. 77-91.
'Visualising Neighbourhood in Renaissance Florence: Santo Spirito and Santa Maria del Carmine', Journal of Urban History 32, no. 4 (2006), pp. 693-710.
Introduction to Vasari's Life of Raphael (Pallas Athene Press, 2004)
'Patronage and Identity in Renaissance Florence: The Case of Santa Maria a Lecceto', in M.Rogers (ed.), Identities in Renaissance Art (Ashgate Publishing, London, 2000)
Reviews
N. A. Eckstein, The Brancacci Chapel. Form, Function and Setting (Florence: Leo S. Olschki 2007), Sehepunkte, 2008 [http://www.sehepunkte.de/2008/10/13678.html].
S. J. Campbell and S. J. Milner (eds.), Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City (Cambridge University Press, 2004), The Burlington Magazine 148 (2006), 489.
S. J. Campbell (ed.), Artists at Court: Image- Making and Identity, 1300-1550. (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2004), Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006), 243-4.
G. A. Bailey, Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773 (University of Toronto Press, 1999), Sixteenth Century Journal, 32 (2001), 214-5.
S. Verdi Webster, Art and Ritual in Golden Age Spain (Princeton University Press, 1998), Sixteenth Century Journal, 30 (1999), 1150-1151.
In Preparation
'The Dwarf at the Feast: Anxious Laughter in High Renaissance Rome and Florence', to be submitted to Renaissance Studies.
Rethinking the High Renaissance (edited volume to be submitted to Pennsylvania State University Press), and the Introduction to that volume.
The Renaissance Nude: Nakedness in Italy from Donatello to Michelangelo
Membership of Professional Organisations
Committee member of Leonardo da Vinci Society
Renaissance Society of America
Association of Art Historians
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