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Helena Szepe Associate Professor - Art History Ph.D., Cornell University, 1992 FAH 266 |
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Helena Szépe’s research examines the role of manuscript and printed books in the visual culture of Venice from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. She has published on the Hypnerotomachia Polphili, and on illuminated printed books. Her current research and book-in-progress addresses the formulation of civic identity in Venetian manuscript illumination.
Dr. Szépe has received various grants for her research, including a Getty Post-Doctoral Fellowship, a Gladys Krieble Delmas Grant, an American Philosophical Society Research Grant, Huntington and Houghton (Harvard University) Library Fellowships, and University of South Florida Research grants.
Recent published articles include:
"Distinguished Among Equals: Venetian Manuscript Illumination," Manuscripts inTransition, ed. B. Dekeyzer and J. van der Stock, Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2005: 393-399.
"Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Venetian Manuscripts," Gondola Days. Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice, ed. Alan Chong, Boston and Venice: Gardner Museum and Marciana Library, 2004: 233-235.
"Civic and Artistic Identity in Illuminated Venetian Documents," Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, 95, December 2002: 58-73.
Forthcoming: "Venetian Miniaturists in the Era of Print," Miscellanea Marciana, 2008.
Szépe teaches Medieval and Renaissance art courses. Some of her recent seminar courses include The Idea of Venice, The Renaissance Book, Renaissance Identity, Renaissance Prints, Painting in Renaissance Venice, Medieval Manuscripts, and The Art of Devotion.
Dr. Szépe has curated exhibitions of manuscript illumination, and trained students in manuscript and early printed book scholarship and collections, for Special Collections of the USF Library.
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