Lia Markey specializes in Italian Renaissance art with particular concentrations on artistic and cultural exchange between Italy and the New World, Medici patronage, prints and drawings and collecting history. The recipient of numerous grants including a Kress Foundation Fellowship at the Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florence, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and a Renaissance Society of America Research Grant, Dr. Markey has taught art history courses at Fordham University, the New School, Yeshiva University and most recently at the University of Pennsylvania as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities. She has worked at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Morgan Library and at the Princeton University Art Museum where she has been involved in the research and writing of a forthcoming catalogue of Italian drawings. Dr. Markey is currently completing a book manuscript entitled, Imagining the New World in Medici Florence: Art, Collecting, and Cultural Conquest and her articles on the provenance and reception of Bernardino de Sahagún’s Florentine Codex (Villa I Tatti publication), on Grand Dukes Francesco and Ferdinando de’ Medici and the Americas (Medici Archive Project publication), and on Giovanni Stradano’s engravings of the New World (Renaissance Quarterly) are scheduled for publication in 2011/2012.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

“The Female Printmaker and the Culture of the Reproductive Print Workshop,” in The Paper Museum: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800, eds. Rebecca Zorach and Elizabeth Rodini, exh. cat. Smart Museum of Art, February 3-May 25, 2005 (The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, 2005): 51-73.

“Medici Statecraft and the Building and Use of Ammannati’s Ponte Santa Trinita” in Italian Art, Society and Politics: A Festschrift in Honor of Rab Hatfield, eds. Barbara Deimling, Jonathan K. Nelson and Gary M. Radke (Syracuse University Press, 2007): 178-193.

Captured Objects: Inventories of Early Modern Collections, special edition of the Journal of the History of Collections, guest co-edited with Jessica Keating. Includes co-authored article with Keating, “’Indian’ Objects in Medici and Austrian-Hapsburg Collections: A Case Study of a Sixteenth-Century Term” and co-authored Introduction: “Captured Objects: A New Approach to the Study of Inventories” (December 2010 online edition and fall 2011 in print).