Publications
Books
The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Paperback edition released in 2019.
The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Articles and Essays
“Unicorn Diplomacy: The Singularity of the Non-extant.” In Non-Extant Art: Studies in Speculative Art History. Edited by Dana E. Katz and Dawn Odell. Forthcoming.
“Mona Lisa as Eco-Activism.” In Economy and the Environment in the Global Renaissance. Edited by Robert Fredona, Sophus Reinert, and Caroline E. Murphy. Forthcoming.
“Fashioning Racial Materiality in Nicolas de Nicolay’s Images of Jews.” In Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Pre-Modern World. Edited by Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press, May 2023). Co-authored with M. Lindsay Kaplan. Online edition: https://asu.pressbooks.pub/seeing-race-before-race/. This edited volume received the 2024 Association of American Publishers’ PROSE Award in the “Art Exhibitions” category.
“Ghettos and Jewish Spaces.” In Jeffrey Shoulson (Ed.), Religion Section; Kristen Poole (Gen. Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World (Online). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, May 29, 2022: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367347093-RERW131-1.
“Gendered Dialogues” and “Cultural Encounters.” In “The Birth of The Modern,” Reed Magazine, March 2022. Co-authored with Michael P. Breen: https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2022/the-birth-of-the-modern.html.
“Raphael and Islam in the School of Athens.” In Revisiting Raphael’s Vatican Stanze. Edited by Kim Butler Wingfield and Tracy Cosgriff (Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller, 2022), 121-139.
“Architecture & Alterity in Early Modern Venice.” Journal of the Society for Architectural Historians. Special Issue: “Constructing Race and Architecture (1400-1800).” Edited by David Karmon. 80, no. 4 (December 2021): 391-395.
“The Quarantine Question.” Co-written and co-edited with Lisa Pon. Art Journal Open, December 21, 2021: https://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=16055.
“The Art of the COVID Copy.” Art Journal Open, August 12, 2021: https://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=15750.
“The Conversion of Iberia’s Bells.” Material Religion 17, no. 1 (March 2021): 81-110, DOI:10.1080/17432200.2021.1874091.
“#MeToo with the Early Moderns.” In “Object of Study: What They’re Looking at in Class,” Reed Magazine, March 2020.
“Il Ghetto” and “Il Fondaco dei Tedeschi.” Digital mapping project on “Religious Life in Venice”: http://publications.newberry.org/venice/. Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, September 2017.
“Ghetto Urbanism.” In Venice, the Jews, and Europe, 1516-2016. Translated “L’urbanistica del ghetto.” In Venezia, gli ebrei, e l’Europa, 1516-2016. Edited by Donatella Calabi, Ludovica Galeazzo, and Martina Massaro (Venice: Marsilio, 2016), 216-219. Exhibition Catalog, Doge’s Palace, Venice.
“Sensing the City: Night in the Venetian Ghetto.” In Sensational Religion: Sensory Cultures in Material Practice. Edited by Sally M. Promey (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2014), 159-182.
“Spatial Stories: Mantua and the Painted Jew.” In Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries. Edited by Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 199-225.
“The Ghetto and the Gaze in Early Modern Venice.” In Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism. Edited by Herbert L. Kessler and David Nirenberg (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), 233-262.
“‘Clamber not you up to the casements’: On Ghetto Views and Viewing.” Jewish History 24, no. 2 (2010): 127-153.
“The Contours of Tolerance: Jews and the Corpus Domini Altarpiece in Urbino.” The Art Bulletin 85, no. 4 (December 2003): 646-661.
“Painting and the Politics of Persecution: Representing the Jew in Fifteenth-Century Mantua.” Art History 23, no. 4 (November 2000): 475-495.
Book Reviews
Federica Francesconi, Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 55, no. 1–2 (Spring/Summer 2024), 374-376.
Lynn Lara Westwater, Sarra Copia Sulam: A Jewish Salonnière and the Press in Counter-Reformation Venice (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 54, no. 3–4 (Fall/Winter 2023): 468-470.
Robert J. Clines, A Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean: Early Modern Conversion, Mission, and the Construction of Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 52, no. 4 (Winter 2021): 1042-1043.
Tamar Herzig, A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019), Renaissance Quarterly 74, no. 2 (Summer 2021): 650-651.
Rena N. Lauer, Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), American Historical Review 126, no. 1 (March 2021): 374-375.
Flora Cassen, Marking the Jew in Renaissance Italy: Politics, Religion, and the Power of Symbols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), Jewish History 31, no. 3 (2018): 357-359.
Niall Atkinson, The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2016), Material Religion 14, no. 1 (2018): 132-133.
Joseph Shatzmiller, Cultural Exchange: Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), AJS Review 39, no. 1 (2014): 173-175.
Katherine Aron-Beller, Jews on Trial: The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598-1638 (New York: Manchester University Press, 2011), American Historical Review 117, no. 5 (December 2012): 1686-1687.
Deborah Howard and Laura Moretti, Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), Material Religion 8, no. 1 (2012): 111-112.
Michelle O’Malley, The Business of Art: Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy (New Haven: Yale University Press 2005), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 38, no. 2 (Summer 2007): 612-613.
J.V. Field, Piero della Francesca: A Mathematician’s Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 38, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 300-301; with Irena Swanson, Mathematics Department, Reed College.
Keith Christiansen, ed., From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and the Making of a Renaissance Master (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 37, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 951-952.
Eva Frojmovic, ed., Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other: Visual Representation and Jewish-Christian Dynamics in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (Leiden: Brill, 2002), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 35, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 848-850.
Thomas P. Campbell, Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 34, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 938-940.
Michael Zell, Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 33, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 1209-1210.
Books in Progress
Non-Extant Art: Studies in Speculative Art History, edited volume in progress with Dawn Odell
Mimicry and the Art Museum, monograph in progress