Art history professor receives fellowship to conduct research at Harvard Center near Florence, Italy

Elena Calvillo, associate professor of art history at University of Richmond, has received the Hanna Kiel Fellowship for research at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy.

Calvillo will use the award to work on her second book, “Rome in Translation: Precious Objects in the Age of Prints.” It will be a continuation of some of the ideas addressed in her first book manuscript about the Croatian miniaturist Giullo Clovio, who worked in 16th-century Rome.

The new book will address how artists experienced and reproduced in novel or precious media the canonical forms of 16th-century Rome and how collectors outside Rome, especially in Spain, received and collected those artistic translations. She will study albums of drawings, paintings on stone and cabinet miniatures – techniques used to translate Rome’s greatest art works of the time into items that would be highly valued and collected.

Calvillo has taught at Richmond since 2004. She received a Ph.D. in art history from Johns Hopkins University.

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