Rate My Professor Christopher Marshall

Professor Christopher Marshall serves as Professor of Art History and Head of Art History/Art Curatorship in the School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. He specializes in Italian Baroque art alongside art curatorship and museum studies. His research examines the production and business of painting in seventeenth-century Naples, the career strategies of artists like Artemisia Gentileschi, and contemporary museum practices including exhibition histories and cultural display. Marshall's major publications include the monograph Artemisia Gentileschi and the Business of Art (Princeton University Press, 2024), which presents a new account of the Italian Baroque painter's life, work, commercial practices, and enduring legacy. He is also the author of Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench (Yale University Press, 2016), detailing the workshop dynamics, markets, and industry surrounding Neapolitan painting. Additional key works encompass Sculpture and the Museum, contributions to The Legacies of Bernard Smith: Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics, and articles such as Make the Stones Shout: Contemporary Museums and the Challenge of Culture (2011).