Emily Monty
- Judith Harris Murphy Assistant Professor of Early Modern European Art, History of Art
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Biography —
Dr. Emily Monty specializes in the art and visual culture of early modern Europe and the Spanish world with a focus on the history of print. Her research and teaching emphasize transatlantic geographies; decolonial methodologies; and material and technical art histories. Her current book project examines the representation of the Spanish world in prints published in Rome in the 16th and 17th centuries, analyzing print as a medium-specific space that shaped ideas about power and authority in the global Catholic world. She co-leads two collaborative projects, one focused on new methodologies in print studies and the other aimed at building a digital portal to explore the art and architectural history of an 18th-century Dutch library. Her research has been supported by numerous fellowships and institutions, including the Fulbright Program in Spain; the Samuel H. Kress Foundation History of Art Institutional Fellowship at the Bibliotheca Hertziana; Trinity College Dublin; the Museo Nacional del Prado with support from the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica; and I Tatti — The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
Education —
Summa Cum Laude
Teaching —
Lecture Courses:
Art of the Early Modern Spanish World
History of Western Art: Ancient through Medieval
History of Western Art: Renaissance to Contemporary Art
Selected Publications —
“A Question of Morals: Philip II and Achille Bocchi in a Roman Engraving,” INTRECCI d’arte, special issue, ed., Maria Vittoria Spissu, 12, no. 12 (2023): 203–222.
“Genealogies of Spanish Architectural Knowledge in Roman Print,” H-Art. Revista de historia teoría y crítica de arte, special issue, eds. María Elisa Navarro Morales and Juan Luis Burke: Architect’s Books, 15 (2023): 71–92.
“Illustrating the Vernacular Body: Juan Valverde de Amusco and the Art of Embodied Anatomy,” in Reassessing Epistemic Images in the Early Modern World, ed. Ruth Noyes (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022), 243–264.
“The Diving Bell as Pedagogical Method: Reflections on Karen Overbey as a Teacher,” Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies, special issue, eds. Lahney Preston-Matto and Maggie M. Williams: Essays in honor of Dr. Karen Overbey, 14 (2022): 11–20. [Co-authored with Tamara Golan]
Review: Painting Flanders Abroad: Flemish Art and Artists in Seventeenth-Century Madrid, by Abigail D. Newman. Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte, vol. 35, 2023, pp. 161-164.
Grants & Other Funded Activity —
2023-25: [With Maria Elisa Navarro Morales] “A Portal to the Fagel Collection,” Trinity Long Room Hub Research Incentive Scheme, Trinity College Dublin
2023-24: Villa I Tatti – Museo Nacional del Prado Joint Fellow
Fall 2022: Fagel Collection Visiting Research Fellow, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute, Trinity College Dublin in association with the KB, the National Library of the Netherlands
2019-21: Samuel H. Kress History of Art Institutional Fellow, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institut for Art History, Rome
2017-18: Fulbright Scholar in Spain, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Memberships —
Deans’ Faculty Fellow, History of Art and Architecture, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2021–22