{"id":1414,"date":"2024-07-02T13:58:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1414"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:58:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:58:05","slug":"jodi-cranston","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/profile\/jodi-cranston\/","title":{"rendered":"Jodi Cranston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>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, <em>The Poetics of Portraiture in the Renaissance<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2000); <em>The Muddied Mirror: Materiality and Facture in Titian\u2019s Later Paintings<\/em> (Penn State University Press, 2010); and <em>Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice<\/em> (Penn State University Press, 2019); editor and contributor to <em>Venetian Painting Matters, 1450-1750<\/em> (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,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mappingtitian.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mapping Titian<\/a>, which visualizes the provenance of Titian\u2019s pictures from the 16th century to the present day and another, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mappingpaintings.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mapping Paintings<\/a>, 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<p>She is currently completing a book project, \u201cAnimal Sightings: Art, Animals, and European Court Culture, 1400-1550,\u201d which is under contract with Penn State University Press (2025). The book considers the following questions: How do the experiences of representing, viewing, and using nonhuman animals and animal products in artworks make the categories of \u2018human\u2019 and \u2018animal\u2019 meaningful in the Renaissance?; How is the act of observation of the natural world defined, theorized, and visualized in the 15th and 16th centuries in Northern Italy, Austria, and Southern Germany?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20263,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1414\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}