Diana Bullen Presciutti

Department/Affiliation: Art and Art History
Phone: 330-263-2273
Office Address: 113 Ebert
Email: dpresciutti@wooster.edu

Degrees

• B.A., Dartmouth College 1998
• M.A., Syracuse University in Florence, 2003
• Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2008
  

Courses Taught

• ARTD 101: Introduction to Art History I (Prehistory-Medieval)
• ARTD 102: Introduction to Art History II (Renaissance-Present)
• ARTD 208: Italian Renaissance Art
• ARTD 212: Baroque Art, 1600-1700
• ARTD 223: Architecture I: Stonehenge to Beaux-Arts
• ARTD 310: Visual Culture of Childhood in Europe, 1300-1800

Fellowships and Awards

• Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Humanities Research Center, Rice University (2008-2010)
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2007-2008)
• Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship (2006-2007)
• Mary Ives Hunting and David D. Hunting, Sr. Graduate Student Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan (2006-2007)
• Henry P. Tappan Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching, History of Art Department, University of Michigan (2006)

Professional Memberships

• Renaissance Society of America
• College Art Association
• Italian Art Society
• Society for Confraternity Studies

Publications

• Presciutti, Diana Bullen. “Dead Infants, Cruel Mothers, and Heroic Popes: The Visual Rhetoric of Foundling Care at the Hospital of Santo Spirito, Rome”, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Fall 2011): 752-799
• Presciutti, Diana Bullen. Review of Sharon Strocchia, Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) in Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 6 (2011): 273-276
• Presciutti, Diana Bullen. “Carità e potere: Representing the Medici Grand Dukes as ‘Fathers of the Innocenti’”, Renaissance Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2 (April 2010): 234-259
• Presciutti, Diana Bullen. Review of David D’Andrea, Civic Christianity in Renaissance Italy: The Hospital of Treviso, 1400-1530 (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2007) in Medieval Feminist Forum, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Winter 2008): 149-152

Research Interests

My primary research centers on the visual culture of early modern hospitals and other charitable institutions, focusing on civic ideology, urban ritual, and intersections of class, gender, and cultural production. I am presently completing my first book manuscript, Save the Children: Visual Rhetorics of Charity in Renaissance Italy, which focuses on the visual culture of foundling hospitals in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. My next project considers institutions of confinement, rehabilitation, and reintegration of imperiled teenage girls, reformed prostitutes, and converted Jews and Muslims in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy.