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Dr Amanda Hilliam

Lecturer

 

BA (Bristol), MSt (Oxford), PhD (Oxford Brookes)

I joined the department in 2023 as an associate lecturer with primary responsibility for teaching innovation and skills-based art history. My research focusses on early modern Italy, particularly the work of itinerant artists active on both sides of the Adriatic coast, the porosity between art making and theory, intermediality, and the role of objects and images in religious devotion. Before coming to York I was an associate lecturer at the Courtauld, where I designed and taught courses on the graphic arts, the interrelationship between art and music, and alternative histories of Renaissance painting.

I have held fellowships at I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. My PhD, awarded in 2020, was a Collaborative Doctoral Award with London’s National Gallery and Oxford Brookes focussing on image-object dynamics in the work of Carlo Crivelli (c. 1430-1495). This research informed the exhibition I co-curated with Jonathan Watkins, ‘Carlo Crivelli: Shadows on the Sky’ at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, and provides a starting point for my monograph (due December 2024) for the Renaissance Lives series published by Reaktion Books.

I have a background in the commercial art world and conservation, and aspects of connoisseurship and technical art history are involved in my research and teaching. I also enjoy speaking with contemporary artists and reflecting on what their processes and ideas can teach us about pre-modern works of art.

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Dr Amanda Hilliam
Lecturer
History of Art