Louise Bourdua

Professor Louise Bourdua completed her BA at McGill University (Canada) before moving to London, where she took her MA in Medieval Studies from Westfield College (University of London) and PhD at Warwick University. She returned to her alma mater in 2007, having previously taught at the University of Aberdeen.

She was Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, for the academic year 2013-2014: http://www.nga.gov/casva/index.shtm; Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Visiting Professor at The Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence,2011: http://itatti.harvard.edu/; and the Academic Convenor of the Association of Art HistoriansLink opens in a new window 37th Annual Conference hosted by Warwick on 2-4 April 2011. Over the years, my research has also been generously funded by The British Academy, the British School at Rome, the Leverhulme Trust, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for Venetian Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the CVCP (UK).

Professor Bourdua is Co-chair of History of Art's Space & Place research cluster and a member of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance.

Research Interests:
Giotto's Legacy especially in Padua (and the re-discovery of Trecento art)
Artistic patronage in 14th-century Venice: doges, Procurators of St Mark, and other magistracies
13th/14th century-sculpture in Venice including Andriolo de'Santi
Religious orders (patronage and iconography) during the later middle ages/renaissance
Intersections between the Veneto and Northern Europe during later middle ages/renaissance