University of Cambridge

Graduate Student, History of Art

Other Affiliations: Kent State University, School of Art

PhD Candidate

Newnham College

Thesis Title: Art patronage of the Colleoni, Martinengo and Savorgnan: Condottieri families on the Venetian Terraferma 1450-1600

About

Rebecca Norris is a PhD candidate in the History of Art at the University of Cambridge. Her thesis research investigates the art patronage of the military elite on the Venetian Terraferma. During MPhil research, she utilized unpublished inventories from the ASV to provide a comparative analysis of ownership among sixteenth-century Venetian women spanning the social hierarchy. Her MA explored daily life and the Applied Arts in "Vittore Carpaccio’s 'Hunting on the Lagoon' and 'Two Venetian Ladies'”.

An art historian, educator, and museum associate, Rebecca has cultivated a background in museum operations with practical experience in the Curatorial, Registrar and Education departments. Her internships include the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, among others.

Central to her interests are the care and maintenance of objects, and contributing to their meaningful and accessible interpretation. Cross-cultural aspects are a focal point in her curated exhibits. While at the McNay Art Museum in Texas, Rebecca was a leading contributor to the reinstallation of the Oppenenheimer Collection of Medieval and Renaissance objects.

Rebecca has participated in several national and international conferences and her publications include the forthcoming article, “Women on the Edge: The Saletta delle Dame of the Palazzo Salvadego in Brescia”, for an international conference entitled "Sound, Space and Object: The Aural, the Visual and the Tactile in Early Modern French and Italian Music Rooms", University of Cambridge, 2009.

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