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Art History

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Teaching

Lisa is co-ordinator of the first year course ‘Renaissance to Van Gogh’, and also teaches courses on Baroque art and art and travel.

Projects in progress

• Landscapes of Death: Landscape painting, malaria and ecology in the Roman Campagna
• Artistic exchanges between Rome and Madrid in the seventeenth century (with Dr José-Luis Colomer)
• The Patronage networks of Claude Lorrain (with Dr Helen Langdon)
• Pilgrimages to Rome and theoretical frameworks for place-based research (with Dr Joan Barclay-Lloyd)
• Developing the technology for photographing three-dimensional objects for on-line teaching modules (with a number of colleagues from La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne)

Selected Publications

‘Cardinal Camillo Massimo as art agent of the Altieri’, in Art and Identity, M. Bury and J. Burke (eds), Ashgate (forthcoming) 

 ‘Claude Lorrain’s Harbour Scenes: sun, science and the theatre in the Barberini years’, in David R. Marshall (ed.), Art, Site and Spectacle: Studies in Early Modern Visual Culture, Melbourne, Fine Arts Network,2007, pp. 147-161.

‘Someone to watch over me: The Guardian Angel as Superhero in seventeenth century Rome’, in Wendy Haslem, Chris Mackie & Angela Ndalianis (eds.), Super/Heroes: An Anthology, New Academia Press, Washington, 2007. ISBN 0-9777908-4-3. Chapter 18, pp. 251-261.

 ‘Cardinal Camillo Massimo and Claude Lorrain: Landscape and the construction of identity in seicento Rome’, Storia dell’Arte, no. 112, April 2006 pp. 23-36.