Degrees:
Ph.D., Brown Univ.
M.A., Brown Univ.
B.A., Stonehill College
Suzanne Scanlan’s research centers on women as artists, patrons and collectors from the Renaissance through the modern period. Since 2010, Scanlan has been on the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design where she teaches courses on the art, architecture and material culture of early modern Europe. She has developed several collaborative courses with studio faculty and museum curators, from the role of the artist on the Grand Tour to the History of Drawing. Her most recent work is a book entitled Esther Pressoir: A Modern Woman's Painter, published by Lund Humphries in 2024. Previous works include Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor de’Specchi, 1400-1500: Religious Women and Art in Fifteenth-Century Rome (Amsterdam University Press, 2018). In spring 2017, her co-authored article “Death Did Not Become Her: Unconventional Women and the Problem of Female Commemoration in Early Modern Rome” won the prize for Best Article from Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal. From September 2023-August, 2024, Scanlan co-curated exhibitions of works by artist Esther Pressoir for the RISD Museum and the Providence Athenaeum. She also serves as faculty for the Providence Clemente Veterans Initiative.
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Women as artists, patrons and collectors from the Medieval through Modern periods
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The art and architecture of early modern Europe
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Female monastic communities
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Art and architecture of Baroque Rome
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The art and architecture of Renaissance Italy
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Early modern theatre and spectacle
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Iconoclasm
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The History of Drawing
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Art and Social Welfare in the early modern world
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The art of fashion
AHIS-101
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Introduction to the History of Art in the West I
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AHIS-219
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The Visual and Material Culture of Medieval and Renaissance Women
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AHIS-220
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Baroque Rome
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AHIS-222
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The Renaissance Embodied
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AHIS-341
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The Baroque Festival: Art and Authority in the Age of Spectacle
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Women as artists, patrons and collectors
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The visual culture of women's communities from convents to clubs
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Memorials and monuments to women
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Dance, theatre and spectacle
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Art and social welfare
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Books:
Recent publications:
- “Artistically Furnished,” in Ruffles, Repair and Ritual: An Anthology of Writing in Regards to the Renovation of the Wedding Cake House, Mary-Kim Arnold and Taylor M. Polites, eds., The Dirt Palace, 2019, pp. 158-165.
- Arranging Furniture and Shaping Taste in Turn-of-the-Century Providence,” in Manual, Issue 12, Spring/Summer, 2019, pp. 74-83.
- “Death Did not Become Her: Unconventional Women and the Problem of Female Commemoration in Early Modern Rome.” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Spring, 2017. Awarded prize for Best Article by Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
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- RISD Humanities Fund Grant, 2024, 2022
- RISD Professional Development Fund Grant, 2022
- RISD Professional Development Fund Research Grant, 2018
- Rhode Island Council for the Humanities through the National Endowment for the Humanities, Independent Scholar Grant for Summer Research, 2017
- RISD Humanities Fund, Stipend for Image Publication Fees, 2017
- RISD Kyobo Fund Award for Academic Enrichment, 2016
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