Suzanne Scanlan
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Suzanne Scanlan’s research centers on women as artists, patrons and collectors from the Renaissance through the Modern period. In 2010 Scanlan joined the faculty at RISD, where she teaches a broad range of courses, including History of Drawing, Iconoclasm, The Renaissance Embodied and Baroque Rome. She has developed collaborative courses with studio faculty, most recently a travel seminar exploring the role of the artist on the Grand Tour.
Scanlan is the author of Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor de’Specchi, 1400–1500: Religious Women and Art in Fifteenth-Century Rome (Amsterdam University Press, 2018). In spring 2017, her co-authored article Death Did Not Become Her: Unconventional Women and the Problem of Female Commemoration in Early Modern Rome won the prize for Best Article from Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Scanlan’s most recent book, Esther Pressoir: A Modern Woman’s Painter (Lund Humphries, 2024), traces the travels, diverse relationships and prolific career of the American Modern artist—and RISD alum—Esther Estelle Pressoir.