{"id":5214,"date":"2015-07-24T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T19:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/?post_type=profile&p=5214"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:24:15","slug":"jodi-cranston","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/profile\/jodi-cranston\/","title":{"rendered":"Jodi Cranston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her book, \u201cAnimal Sightings: Art, Animals, and European Court Culture, 1400-1550,\u201d was published by Penn State University Press in November 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/p>\n

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Select Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nAnimal Sightings: Art, Animals, and European Court Culture, 1400-1550<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Penn State University Press, 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong><\/em>Penn State University Press, 2019
\nRecipient of the 2021 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Book Prize … read more<\/a><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\u201cMapping Paintings, or How to Breathe Life into Provenance.\u201d commissioned book <\/strong>
\nchapter for The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History,\u00a0<\/em>edited by Kathryn Brown.<\/strong><\/p>\n

London: Routledge, 2020.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\u201cThe Hidden Signatures of Titian.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Word & Image<\/em> 34:4 (Oct-Dec, 2018): 372-87.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"author":2318,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18151,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5214\/revisions\/18151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}