USC College Department of Art History

Faculty

Eunice Howe

Professor of Art History
Chair

Contact Information
E-mail: howe@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-4569
Office: VKC 351

LINKS
Curriculum Vitae
Faculty Profile on Departmental Website

Education

B.A. Art History, Mount Holyoke College, 1/1970
M.A. Italian Renaissance Art, Villa Schifanoia Graduate School of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy, 1/1972
Ph.D. Art and Architectural History, Johns Hopkins University, 12/1977

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Chair, Department of Art History, University of Southern California, 2008-2009
Assistant-Full Professor, University of Southern California, 01/08/1977-08/01/2009

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Early Modern/Italian Renaissance: 15th-16th Century Art and Architecture. Eunice Howe specializes in Italian Renaissance art and architecture. Her interests include gender and the built environment, travel literature, Renaissance urbanism, papal patronage and 15th century Roman painting. She is working on a book titled The Art and Architecture of Healing; Hospitals in Early Modern Italy, 1400-1600 that examines how hospital design defined individual health within a larger social sphere. In 2005, her Art and Culture at the Sistine Court: Platina’s “Life of Sixtus IV” and the Frescoes of the Hospital of Santo Spirito [Studi e Testi] was published by the Vatican Library.

Research Keywords

Italian Renaissance painting, sculpture, architecture, patronage, gender, vatican, popes

Funded Research

USC Funding

College Faculty Development Award. Research on book: Research on book., $2,500, 2007-2008
College Faculty Development Award. Renaissance Hospitals: Funding for conference travel., $2,000, 2006-2007

Conferences and Other Presentations

Conference Presentations

""Rome inside the Box: The Universal Monastery of Pius V (1566-72)"", Renaissance Society of America, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Miami, 2006-2007
"Session Chair, "Court, Gender and Spaces of Retreat"", The Politics of Space, Moderator, , Huntington Library, Society for Court Studies, USC-Huntington Early M, Invited, 2006-2007
"Session Chair-"Sacred, Corporate and Civic Spaces in Italian Art"", 42nd International Congress On Medieval Studies, Moderator, , Kalamazoo, Michigan, Italian Art Studies, Invited, 2006-2007
"Session Chair--"Gender and the Other"", Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Moderator, , Huntington Library, Invited, 2006-2007

Publications

Book Chapter

Howe, E. D. (2008). "Traces of the Lost Ciborium of the Corsia Sistina in Santo Spirito in Sassia". pp. 25. Rome: Andrea Bregno. Il senso della forma nella cultura artistica del Rinascimento,Ministero per i Beni Cutlurali, 2008..
Howe, E. D. (2006). Travel and Movement in Medieval Italy, 500-1500. pp. 25. Ashgate.
Howe, E. D. (2006). "Out of the Shadows; Architecture in 15th Century Roman Painting". pp. 20. Rome: Pio II e Le Arti al debuto del Rinascimento, Roma.

Book Review

Howe, E. D. (2007). V. Hart and P. Hicks, eds., Palladio's Rome. CAA Reviews.

Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works

Multimedia Across the College--MAC Award, Support for developing a multimedia component for AHIS 120g: Foundations of Western Art, 2008-2009