Jodi Cranston

Professor of History of Art & Architecture

Professor Jodi Cranston received her B.A. in Renaissance Studies from Yale University and her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University. She is the author of three books, The Poetics of Portraiture in the Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 2000); The Muddied Mirror: Materiality and Facture in Titian’s Later Paintings (Penn State University Press, 2010); and Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice (Penn State University Press, 2019); editor and contributor to Venetian Painting Matters, 1450-1750 (Brepols, 2015); and has contributed several articles to interdisciplinary Renaissance publications. 

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