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PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Papers Delivered:

• "Giorgio Vasari's Iconology." RSA, April 9-11, 2005, Cambridge, England
• "Giorgio Vasari's 'Proemi,'" SCRC/SRAH, March 13-16, 2005, Malibu, CA
• "Burne-Jones' 'The Cycle of Troy'", CAA, February 13-17, 2005,Atlanta, GA
• "Giorgio Vasari's The Corridor of Ceres." SECAC, October 13-17, 2005, Jacksonville, FL
• "Accademia della Crusca: arte e imprese," International Humanities Conference, Prato, Italy, July 23-26, 2004
• "Giorgio Vasari's Neoplatonism," International Society for NeoPlatonic Studies, Liverpool University, UK, June 24-27, 2004.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Minerva," International Congress, Mediterranean Studies Association, Barcelona, Spain, May 28-31, 2004.
• "The Mexican Mural Tradition", University of Mexico, Mexico City and Toluca. April 24-29, 2004
• "Bronzino's Mythological Paintings," RSA, April 4, 2004, NY City.
• "Giorgio Vasari’s Ceres: Muse of Nature and Rebirth," Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, New College of the South Florida University, March 12-16, 2004.
• "Lavinia Fontana: le donne famose," Picturing Women, National Conference, Philadelphia, March 18-19, 2004
• "Giorgio Vasari and his Teachers: The Classical Tradition", SECAC, October 29, 2003, Raleigh, NC
• "Giorgio Vasari's Neoplatonic Cosmology: The Planets, International Congress, Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts, June 6-10, 2003, Palazzo Rucellai, Florence
• "Bronzino's "Pygmalion and Galatea," International Congress, Mediterranean Studies Association, " Budapest, Hungary, May 24-29, 2003.
• "Italian Renaissance Self-Portraits," Milshap University, January 24, 2003.
• "Self-Portraits by Women Painters," Philadelphia Academy of the Arts, Philadelphia, February 5, 2003.
• "The Imprese of the Accademia della Crusca," International Congress on Emblematica, Coruna, Spain, September 10-24, 2002
• "Luisa Roldan: First Spanish Sculptress," International Congress, Mediterranean Studies Association, Granada, Spain, May 25-30, 2002.
• "Giorgio Vasari: Vita," South-Central Renaissance Conference, St. Louis, MO, April 5-7, 2002.
• "The Garden of Adonis in The Dream of Poliphilo," RSA, Tempe, AZ, March 23-27, 2002.
• "Giulia Lama: Paintings and Drawings" College Art Association, Chicago, Ill, February 20-24, 2002.
• "Giorgio Vasari: Arte e Lavoro," University of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, November 16-17, 2001
• "Josefa de Ayala D'Óbidos' Agnus Dei," SECAC, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, October 23-26, 2001. 
• "The Muses in Corot's Atelier," International Congress, Mediterranean Studies Association, " Aix-Provence, France, May 24-29, 2001.
• "Burne-Jones' Romance de la Rose," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 3-5, 2001.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Studiolo," South-Central Renaissance Conference, University of Texas, College Station, April 5-7, 2001
• "The Garden of Love in The Dream of Poliphilo," RSA, Chicago, March 29-31, 2001.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Patience: An Allegory of Time," International Conference on Astronomy, Palermo, Sicily, January 1-6, 2001
• "Calliope the Muse of Poetry," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, November 1-4, 2000
• "Clio and the Arts: A Vasarian Allegory," SECAC, Louisville University, KY, October 23-26, 2000.
• "Botticelli's Interpretation of ‘Antiquity,'" International Conference on Fifteenth-Century Studies, Antwerp, Belgium, July 27-30, 2000
• "Christine de Pizan's Emblematic Images," International Conference, Glasgow, Great Britain, July 2-7, 2000.
• "Paolo Rego's Murals," International Congress, Mediterranean Studies Association, Bahia El Salvador, Brazil, May 24-28, 2000.
• "Christine de Pizan's Self-Portraits," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 4-6, 2000.
• "Giorgio Vasari: Santa Maria del Fiore," South-Central Renaissance Conference, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette LA, April 6-8, 2000.
• "Giorgio Vasari and Dante," Renaissance Society of America, Florence, Italy, March 22-26, 2000.
• "Burne-Jones' Images of Cupid and Psyche," College Art Association, New York, February 23-26, 2000.
• "Hypatia of Alexandria: Eloquent Neoplatonist," International Conference on Neoplatonism in the Arts, Rome, January 10-12, 2000
• "Elizabetta Sirani's Self-Portraits," SECAC, Norfolk, VA, October 20-23, 1999
• "Women Artists Looking at Women and at Themselves," Discussant, Sixteenth-Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, October 24-27, 1999.
• "The Emblems of the Accademia della Crusca," International Emblem Conference, Munich, Germany, August 8-14, 1999.
• "Greek Theater: The Law of the Mask," International Conference on The Theater, Olympia, Greece, July 1-6, 1999.
• "Religious Paintings of Josefa de Ayala D'Óbidos," International Congress on Mediterranean Studies Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, May 26-30, 1999. 
• "Dante's Inferno and Vasari's Last Judgment," at the Dante Society Conference, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 6-8, 1999. 
• "Lavinia Fontana and The Antique," Women's Patronage Conference, New York Public Library, March 26-29, 1999.
• "Vasari and Cosmology," International Conference on Astronomy, La Valetta, Malta, January 7-14, 1999.
• "Elisabetta Sirani: Pittrice Bolognese ," Southern-Central Renaissance Conference, Savannah College of Arts and Design, April 8-10, 1999.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Ages of Life, " Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, CA, March 22-24, 1999.
• "Dante's Inferno and Sixteenth-Century Illustrations," Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 24-26, 1998.
• "Edward Burne-Jones' Mythological Paintings: Visions of Love," International Society for the Classical Tradition (ISCT), Tübingen University, Germany, July 29-August 2, 1998.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Neoplatonic Theory of Art," International Neoplatonic Conference, University of Crete, Crete, July 24-28, 1998.
• "Concealments and Revelations in Josefa de Ayala D'Óbidos' Self-Portraits," International Conference Mediterranean Studies Association, Lisbon, Portugal, May 27-31, 1998.
• "Lavinia Fontana's Self-Portraits," National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. May 9, 1998.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Seasons," Southern Central Renaissance Conference, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, April 2-4, 1998.
• "Dante's Inferno and Renaissance Last Judgments," Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, New College of the South Florida University, March 12-14, 1998.
• "Correggio's Allegories of Virtues and Vices," Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, New College of the South, March 12-14, 1998.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Love Poems: ut pictura poesis," Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History, College Art Association, Toronto, February 26-29, 1998.
• "Concealments and Revelations by Mannerist Self-Portraits," Identity and Gender Conference, University of Miami, Florida, February 20-22, 1998.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Peace," Arizona State University Conference (ACMRS),
• Tempe, Arizona, February 12-14, 1998.
• "Self-Portraits by Sixtheenth-Century Painters," Women's Studies Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, February 12-14, 1998.
• "Ut pictura kiness: Painting as Film, Film as Painting," The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, January 28-30, 1998.
• "Dante's poema sacro in Renaissance Imagery," Symposium on Aspects of Dante's Divine Comedy," University of Massachusetts Lowell, November 12, 1997
• "The Myth of Andromeda in Venetian Paintings," Southeastern College Art Association, Richmond, VA, October 26-28, 1997.
• "Italian Byzantine Mosaic in Ravenna: Visibility and Invisibility," Greek Cultural Institute of Boston, October 20, 1997.
• "Caravaggio's Sicilian Sojourn," Patristic, Medievall and Renaissance Studies Conference, The Augustianian Historical Institute, Villanova, PA, September 12-14, 1997.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Theory of Art and His Decorative Cycles," University of Bologna (Italy), June 6, 1997.
• "The Imprese of Camilo Camili," Emblem Society Conference at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 6-8, 1997. 
• "Giorgio Vasari's Saint Jerome and the Emblematic Tradition, Renaissance Society of American, Vancouver, Canada, April 4-6, 1997.
• "Self-Portraits of Renaissance Painters," South Central Renaissance Conference, Austin, Texas, March 20-22, 1997.
• "Frederick Sandy's Enchantresses: Morbidity and Clairvoyance as Sources of Fin-de- siècle Decadence," College Art Association, New York, February 12-15, 1997.
• "Dante's Commedia in Renaissance Imagery," Dante and Art Symposium, SUNY/Courtland, November 14, 1996.
• "Giorgio Vasari Depictions of Saint Jerome," Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, October 26, 1996.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Ritratti and the Antique," Southeastern College Art Association, Charlestown, SC, October 22, 1996.
• "Self-Portraits of Female Renaissance Painters," International Art History Conference on Memory and Oblivion, Amsterdam, Holland, September 2-8, 1996.
• "Vasari's Ages of Life", International Emblem Congress, Leuven, Belgium, August 18-23. 1996.
• "Vasari's Seven Deadly Sins", International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, England, July 8-11, 1996.
• "Vasari's Planetary Gods," Emblem Society Conference at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 8-12, 1996.
• "Arpino's Andromeda," Medieval and Renaissance Conference, New College USF, Sarasota, March 14-16, 1996.
• "Vasari's Allegory of Avarice, "Renaissance Society of America, Bloomington, Indiana, April 18-21, 1996.
• "Vasari's Patience," Emblem Society Conference at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 4-6, 1995.
• "Emblematic Approach in the Paintings of Giorgio Vasari: Justice," Second Minnesota Conference on Cultural Emblematics, University of Minnesota, April 27-29, 1995.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Interpretation of the Classical Tradition," Southern Central Renaissance Conference, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City,  April 6-8, 1995.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Theory of Beauty," Renaissance Society of American Conference, New York City, March 31-April 2, 1995.
• "Giorgio Vasari and Antiquity," International Society for the Classical Tradition, Boston University, March 8-10, 1995 
• "Burne-Jones's Mythological Paintings: Andromeda," Pre-Raphaelite Symposium: Interdisciplinary Contexts," University of Massachusetts Lowell, February 16, 1995.
• "Mannerism: Reflections On A Labyrinthian World," College Art Association of America, San Antonio, Texas, January 26-28, 1995.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Andromeda," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 20-24, 1994.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Sala dei Cento Giorni: The Ideal City," International Conference on Architecture and the Emblem, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, October 20-22, 1994.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Interpretation of Art, Nature, and Rebirth in the Lives," International Medieval and Renaissance Conference, University of Leeds, England, July 4-8, 1994.
• "Burne-Jones's Mythological Paintings: The Sirens," The Pre-Raphaelite and Its Circle International Conference, Baylor University, April 21-23, 1994.
• "Emblematic Approaches to Sixteenth Century Art: Giorgio Vasari's Hieroglyphics," Renaissance Society of American Conference, University of North Texas, Dallas April 7-10, 1994.
• "Burne-Jones's Interpretation of Botticelli's Imagery," Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, New College of the South Florida University, March 10-12, 1994.
• Giorgio Vasari's The Toilette of Venus: Theory of Beauty, "Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, New College of the South Florida University, March 12-14, 1994.
• "Caravaggio's Sicilian Works," International Mediterranean Conference, Syracuse, Sicily, July 8-12, 1993.
• "Cesare d'Arpino and Cesare Ripa: The Iconography of Villa Lante, Third International Emblem Conference, University of Pittsburgh, August 16-19, 1993.
• "Cavalier d'Arpino's Justice and Liberality," Emblem Society Conference, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 6-8, 1993.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Judith and Holofernes: Athena or Aphrodite?" Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, December 6-9, 1993.
• "Joan Miro"s Influnece on Modern American Art," International Mediterranean Conference, Palma de Mallorca, July 10-17, 1992.
• "Cesare d'Arpino and Cesare Ripa's Iconologia," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 7-10, 1992.
• "Vasari's Muses," International Conference on Aspects of Renaissance and Baroque Symbol Theory (1500-1700), University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, May 1-3, 1992.
• "Rodin, Dante and Jeremiah," American Association of Italian Studies," University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 8-10, 1992.
• "Cesare d'Arpino and Cesare Ripa's collaboration," Southeastern Renaissance Conference, University of Birmingham, March 26-28, 1992.
• "Vasari's Sala," Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, New College of the South Florida University, March 12-14, 1992.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Sala Farnese: Art as Propaganda," University Art Association of Canada Conference, University of Victoria, November 12-14, 1992.
• "Vasari: Maniera and Rebirth," in Mannerism: Historiography, Art and Art Theories, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Penn State University, Philadelphia, October 7-10, 1991.
• "Dutch Symbolism in Vanitas Paintings," Interdisciplinary Symposium on 17th Century Dutch Art and Life, Hofstra University, New York, Mary 7, 1991.
• "Cavalier d'Arpino's Justice and Liberality," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, April 18-20, 1991.
• "Giorgio Vasari's 'Idea of Rebirth'," Renaissance Society of American Conference, Duke University, Durham, April 11-13, 1991.
• "Rodin's Gates of Hell:: An Interpretation of Dante's Poema Sacro," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, November, 9-11, 1991.
• "Vasari's Pictorial Musing on the Muses: The Chamber of Apollo of the Casa Vasari," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, October 25-27, 1991.
• "Images of Feminine Subjugation," Commentator, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, October 25-27, 1991.
• "Botticelli's Mars and Venus : Bees and Honey," Fifteenth Century Studies, International Congress Perprignan, France, July 2-7, 1990.
• "Cesare d'Arpino and Cesare Ripa: ut pictura poesis," European Renaissance National Traditions: An Interdisciplinary International Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, August 8-12, 1990.
• "Emblematic Approaches in the Paintings of Giorgio Vasari," Emblematic Studies, International Congress Glasgow, Scotland, August 13-17, 1990.
• "Botticelli and Dante: ut pictura poesis," AAIS Conference, University of Virginia, April 20-22, 1990.
• "Love and Agony in the Renaissance," Renaissance Society of America, University of Toronto, Canada, April 5-7, 1990.
• "Botticelli's Mythological Paintings," Southern Central Renaissance Conference, Memphis State University, Tennessee, March 22-24, 1990.
• "The Theme of Love and Death," Medieval and Renaissance Studies, New College of the South Florida University, March 8-10, 1990.
• "Burne-Jones: Mannerist in an Age of Modernism," College Art Association of America, New York, February 12-15, 1990.
• "The Role of St. Agatha in Art and Literature," South-Central Conference on Christianity and Literature, New Orleans, February 8-10, 1990.
• "Vasari and The Accademia del Disegno," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, University of Minneapolis, October 26-28, 1989.
• "The Cult of St. Agatha," CEMERS Conference, SUNY-Binghamton, New York, October, 20-21, 1989.
• "Female Self-Portraits of the Renaissance," Novus et Antiquus, Interdisciplinary CAES Conference, Ball State University, October, 16-18, 1989.
• "Vasari's Academy of Art," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Northern Arizona University, April 21-23, 1989.
• "The Role of St. Agatha in Art and Literature," South-Central Conference on Christianity and Literature, New Orleans, February 8-10, 1990.
• "Vasari and the Cappella degli Artisti," AAIS Conference, University of Lowell, April 13-16, 1989.
• "Vasari's Neapolitan Sojourn," Neapolitan Splendor (Art History Lecture Series), Pennsylvania State University, November 29-30, 1988.
• "Vasari and Pliny," Novus et Antiquus, Interdisciplinary CAES Conference, Ball State University, October 21-22, 1988.
• "Emblematic Approach in the Paintings of Giorgio Vasari," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, October 15-17, 1988.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Sala dei Cento Giorni: A Farnese Celebration," Medieval Renaissance Conference II, University of Virginia, September 22-24, 1988.
• "Milton and Poussin: Parallel Lives," Third International Conference on Milton, Florence (Italy), June 6-10, 1988.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Masquerades," Ninth Fantastic International Conference, Florida Atlantic University, March 15-17, 1988.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Sala dei Cento Giorni," Renaissance Conference, New College of the South Florida University, March 6-8, 1988.
• "Simia Dei in Bosch's Last Judgments," Conference on Evil, Atlanta University, November 6-8, 1987.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Cenacoli," The Sixteenth Century Conference, University of Arizona, October 28-30, 1987.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Early Decorative Cycles," Southern Eastern Renaissance Conference, University of Tennessee, October 15-17, 1987.
• "Dutch Portraits of Vanitas," Southern Eastern Renaissance Conference, University of Tennessee, October 15-17, 1987.
• "Giorgio Vasari's Refectories," Medieval and Renaissance Conference, University of Virginia, September 23-25, 1987.
• "The Doctor in Dutch and Flemish Paintings," Eighth Fantastic International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, University of Texas, Houston, March 14-19, 1987.
• "Self-Portraits of Renaissance Female Painters," Renaissance Conference of America, University of Arizona, Tucson, March 12-14, 1987.
• "Concealment and Revelation in Female Portraiture," National WCA Conference, Boston, February 10-12, 1987.
• "Barbara Longhi of Ravenna," Southern Eastern Renaissance Conference, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, October 24-28, 1986.
• "Botticelli's Mars and Venus: Bees and Honey," How is Art History Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 4-6, 1986.
• "Angels in Mannerist Paintings: St. Michael the Archangel," Seventh Fantastic International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, University of Texas, Houston, March 10-14, 1986.
• "Botticelli's Mars and Venus: A nuptial celebration," Medieval and Renaissance Conference, New College of the South Florida University, March 6-8, 1986.
• "Marcillat's Fresco Paintings for the Cathedral of Arezzo," Southern Eastern Renaissance Conference, University of Louisiana, New Orleans, October 24-26, 1985.
• "The Offering of the Oyster in Dutch Genre Paintings," Netherlandish Conference, University of Pittsburgh, October 10-12, 1985.
• "The Fair Lady and the Virgin in Pre-Raphaelite Iconography," Medieval Conference, Plymouth, New Hampshire, April 26-27, 1985.
• "The Drawings of Botticelli in Dante's Divine Comedy," Sixth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, University of Texas, March 13-16, 1985.
• "Agony and Bliss of Motherhood in Lavinia Fontana's Holy Family," Wellesley College, November 27, 1984.
• "Whistler and Venice," Italian Historical Society of Boston, Harvard Divinity School, November 15, 1984.
• "Pliny's Stories in Vasari's Paintings of the Casa Aretine," Conference on Greece and Italy, State University of New York at New Platz, October 20, 1984.
• "Patrick Keely: New England Architect," CEMERS Conference, SUNY-Binghamton, New York, October 19, 1984.
• "Marianne von Recklinghausen Bowles: Fantastic Images," Women's Caucus for Art/Boston, Boston University, May 20, 1984.
• "Locks, Tresses and Manes," Pre-Raphaelite Symposium, University of Lowell, April 18, 1984.
• "The Stained Glass Windows of S. Joseph the Worker Shrine," Medieval Conference, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire, April 14, 1984.
• "Marianne von Recklinghausen Bowles: Symbolic Triptychs," Fifth International Fantastic Conference in the Arts, Florida Atlantic University, March 24, 1984. 
• "The Paintings of the Casa Vasari," Renaissance Conference, New College of the South Florida University, March 10, 1984.
• "Whistler's Harbors and Waterways," Whistler Symposium, Whistler House, Lowell, November 18, 1983.
• "Love and Death Themes in Funerary Art of Milan, Genova, and Verona," Fourth International Fantastic Conference, Florida Atlantic University, March 25, 1983.
• "The Churches of Lowell," Medieval Conference, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire, April 10, 1983.
• "Simia Dei in Hieronimous Bosch Infernal Paintings," Third International Fantastic Conference, Florida Atlantic University, March 22, 1982.
• "Giovanni Segantini's Motherly Love Fantasy," Third International Fantastic Conference, Florida Atlantic University, March 22, 1982.
• "Teaching Art History in Interdisciplinary Programs," National Educational Conference, May 1981.