Brenna Larson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation, The Prestige of the Foreign in Genoese Devotional Painting, 1460–1530, examines Ligurian and Corsican devotional painting between the mid-fifteenth century and the rise of Andrea Doria. The project investigates the legal consequences of itinerancy, local conceptions of “foreignness” and style, alongside a historiographic analysis of the Genoese school of painting. While at the Medici Archive Project, she will conduct research on the Genoese Dominican complex of Santa Maria di Castello at archives in Florence, Genoa, and Turin. She received her B.A. in art history at Oberlin College in 2014, and her research has been supported by a Fulbright Research Award (2014–2015), a Kress Institutional Fellowship at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (2019–2021), and a Rackham International Research Award from the International Institute at the University of Michigan (2019), amongst others.
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