Professor Meredith J. Gill
Italian Renaissance Art

Art History & Archaeology
Mail: 1211B Art-Sociology Building
Office: 4218 Art-Sociology Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1335
(301) 405- 1491
mgill@umd.edu

Meredith J. Gill (Ph.D., Princeton University ) is a historian of Italian art and architecture from the late medieval era through the sixteenth century. Most recently, she is the author of Augustine in the Italian Renaissance: Art and Philosophy from Petrarch to Michelangelo (Cambridge University Press). She also contributed the chapter on artistic life in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to Rome: Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance (ed. Marcia Hall) (Cambridge University Press).

Professor Gill's scholarly interests focus on the intersections of art and spirituality in the Early Modern era, with an emphasis on theology and philosophy. In her teaching, she also concentrates on interdisciplinary themes that address social history, the history of science, and gender in the visual arts. Her articles (appearing in Storia dell'Arte, Renaissance Quarterly, and Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte) have focused on French and Spanish patronage in Quattrocento Rome, and on architecture, church decoration, and funerary sculpture. She contributed articles to the Festschrifts of Richard Krautheimer and John Shearman, and was a co-editor of both volumes. Her chapter on the humanist, Lorenzo Valla, and the idea of forgery is forthcoming in Revisioning High Renaissance Rome (ed. Jill Burke), as is her essay on Guillaume d'Estouteville in the collection, Possessions: Renaissance Cardinals--Rights and Rituals (eds. Mary Hollingsworth and Carol M. Richardson). She is also a contributor to The Renaissance World, ed. John Jeffries Martin (forthcoming, Routledge, 2006).

She has been a Fellow at Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) and the National Humanities Center, and has been the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Professor Gill is a member of the advisory board for Renaissance Studies.