Overview
Ana Howie is Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern Art, specializing in the visual and material cultures of early modern Europe, particularly Italy and the Low Countries. Her research interests include cultures of dressing, European imperialism, colonialism, and cosmopolitanism, artisanal practices of making, object materialities, global networks of artistic exchange, and early modern race-making. Her current research investigates the relationships between elite women, global material culture, and portraiture in seventeenth-century Genoa, with a focus on the oeuvres of Flemish painters Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck.
Recent publications include “Materializing the Global in van Dyck’s Portrait of Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo,” (Renaissance Quarterly 76:2, 2023). Forthcoming publications include “Admired Head to Toe: Sumptuary Laws, Gender, and Public Dressing in Early Modern Genoa,” (The Historical Journal), and “A Moor to a Maiden: The Presence of Black Servants in the Portraiture of Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth,” in Women and Cultures of Portraiture in the British Literary Renaissance (eds. Arshad and Laoutaris, 2024).
Ana holds a PhD in Early Modern History from the University of Cambridge, awarded in 2023, and an MA in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, awarded in 2017.
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ARTH Courses - Spring 2024
- ARTH 2400 : Introduction to Early Modern Art: Cosmopolitanism and Empire
- ARTH 4520 : Reading Race Early Modern Art
- ARTH 6520 : Reading Race Early Modern Art
VISST Courses - Spring 2024
ARTH Courses - Fall 2024
- ARTH 2400 : Introduction to Early Modern Art: Cosmopolitanism and Empire
- ARTH 4465 : Early Modern Materialities, 1400-1700
- ARTH 6465 : Early Modern Materialities, 1400-1700