Jodi Cranston

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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. She was the recipient of a Charles Ryskamp Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (2004-5), of a Renaissance Society of America Research Grant (2015), and of the Jeffrey Henderson Senior Fellowship from the BU Center for the Humanities (2013-4). She recently launched two digital mapping projects, one, Mapping Titian, which visualizes the provenance of Titian’s pictures from the 16th century to the present day and another, Mapping Paintings, which allows users to map any artwork. She received a Digital Art History Grant from the Kress Foundation to develop both applications.

Her book, “Animal Sightings: Art, Animals, and European Court Culture, 1400-1550,” was published by Penn State University Press in November 2024.

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	Animal Sightings: Art, Animals, and European Court Culture, 1400-1550 Penn State University Press, 2024
	The Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice. Penn State University Press, 2019 Recipient of the 2021 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Book Prize … read more
	“Mapping Paintings, or How to Breathe Life into Provenance.” commissioned book chapter for The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History, edited by Kathryn Brown. London: Routledge, 2020.
	“The Hidden Signatures of Titian.” Word & Image 34:4 (Oct-Dec, 2018): 372-87.