Dr Louise Marshall

Research Interests

• Italian Renaissance plague images, with a particular focus on the process of intercession and the protective role of images in coping with the experience of bubonic plague.
• The imagery and cult of St. Sebastian as 'alter Christus' ('another' or 'second Christ').
• St. Nicholas of Tolentino as a 'failed' plague saint.
• Reading the body in the late drawings of Michelangelo Buonarotti

Publications

• “La costruzione di un santo contro la peste: il caso di Nicola da Tolentino” in San Nicola da Tolentino nell’arte. Corpus iconografico. Vol. 1: Dalle origini al Concilio di Trento, ed. V. Pace and R. Tollo, Milan: Biblioteca egidiana and Federico Motta, 2005, 103-13
• 8 catalogue entries in San Nicola da Tolentino nell’arte. Corpus iconografico. Vol. 1: Dalle origini al Concilio di Trento, ed. V. Pace and R. Tollo, Milan: Biblioteca egidiana and Federico Motta, 2005:
  cat. 26, pp. 245-6: I santi Agostino, Giovanni Battista, un santo vescovo e Nicola da Tolentino con un donatore, Abbadia San Salvatore, eremo di Lecceto
  cat. 63, pp. 264-5: San Nicola da Tolentino salva Pisa dalla peste, Pisa, San Nicola.
  cat. 65, p. 266: San Nicola da Tolentino salva Empoli dalla peste, Empoli, Museo della Collegiata, Bicci di Lorenzo
  cat. 103, pp. 284-5: Madonna dei Raccomandati (recto); San Nicola da Tolentino (verso), Tuscania, Sant’Agostino, Valentino Pica il vecchio
  cat. 150, pp. 307-8: I santi contro la peste Nicola da Tolentino, Rocco, Sebastiano e Bernardino da Siena, con due committenti, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Benozzo Gozzoli e aiuti
  cat. 152, pp. 308-9, Madonna della Misericordia protegge Corciano dalla peste con i santi Agostino, Nicola da Tolentino e Sebastiano, Corciano, Santa Maria, Benedetto Bonfigli
  cat. 153, pp. 309-120, Stendardo di Paciano, Paciano, San Giuseppe
  cat. 222, pp. 344-5, San Nicola da Tolentino, Sesto Calende, oratorio di San Vincenzo, Antonio de Mozis
• “Luxury and Pathos in Girolamo Romanino’s Christ carrying the Cross”, in The Italians in Australia: Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art, ed. D. Marshall, Florence: Centro Di, and The University of Melbourne, 2004, 131-44
• “Reading the Body of a Plague Saint: Narrative Altarpieces and Devotional Images of St. Sebastian in Renaissance Art”, in Reading Texts and Images. Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage, ed. B. Muir, Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2002, 237-60
• “Confraternity and Community: Mobilizing the Sacred in Times of Plague”, in Confraternities and the Visual Arts in the Italian Renaissance. Ritual, Spectacle, Image, ed. B. Wisch and D. Cole Ahl, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 20-45
• “Augustinian Exegesis in the Chiesa del Tau, Pistoia”, in Augustine in Iconography, History and Legend, ed. J.C. Schnaubelt and F. Van Fleteren (Collectanea Augustiniana, IV), New York: Peter Lang, 1999, 595-634
• “Drawing the Renaissance Body”, in Michelangelo to Matisse. Drawing the Figure, eds. T. Maloon and P. Raissis, Sydney: The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1999, 25-37
• “Michiel Coxie (attrib.), Adam and Eve”, in From Vision to Sesquicentenary: The University Through its Art Collection, ed. J. Alison et al., Sydney: The University of Sydney, 1999, 24
• “Manipulating the Sacred: Image and Plague in Renaissance Italy”, Renaissance Quarterly, 47, 1994, 485-532
• Review of A. Moskowitz, Nicola Pisano’s Arca di San Domenico and its legacy, Renaissance Quarterly, 51, 1998, 221-3
• Review of Evelyn Welch, Art and Society in Italy 1350-1500, in The Weekend Australian, July 12-13, 1997, Review section, 7

Current Classes

• ARHT2616 High Renaissance Art
• ARHT5909 Death and Disease in Renaissance Art