Rate My Professor Robert Brennan

Brennan’s first book, Painting as a Modern Art in Early Renaissance Italy, was published by Harvey Miller in 2019. His peer-reviewed articles include “Arabesques”: The Making and Breaking of a Concept in Renaissance Italy” (The Art Bulletin, 2023), “The Body as Axis of History: Raphael and Michelangelo at Santa Maria della Pace in Rome” (Oxford Art Journal, 2022), and “The Art Exhibition between Cult and Market: The Case of Dürer’s Heller Altarpiece” (Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 2017). He co-edited Art History before English: Negotiating a European Lingua Franca from Vasari to the Present (Officina Libraria, 2021) with C. Oliver O’Donnell, Marco Mascolo, and Alessandro Nova. Other works encompass book chapters “Not an Eyewitness: The Art of Saint Luke in His Chapel at Santa Giustina” (2021) and “Complicity and Self-Awareness: Giusto de’ Menabuoi at the Santo” (2020). His current monograph project, Thresholds of Art in Renaissance Italy, examines migration and slavery’s impact on art via archival studies of artists including a Syrian metalworker in Venice, an Egyptian textile designer in Ferrara, and West African musicians in Rome. Brennan was awarded the RSA-Samuel H. Kress Research Fellowship in Renaissance Art History for Venice archival work. He is co-editing Early Modern Imaginaries in the Long Twentieth Century with Katie Anania and Andrew Leach, and Ut pictura medicina? Visual Arts and Medicine with Fabian Jonietz and Romana Sammern.