艺术，艺术史和电影学院

Professor 里昂’s research focuses on the city of 罗马 in the early modern period (1400-1800), which provides endless opportunities to study the intersection of art and society. 她对艺术是如何产生的很感兴趣, 它的目的是什么?, and what it meant in its original context and over time. 她的太阳城官网考虑了赞助的主题, 教皇法庭, 国内建筑, 建筑实践, 工匠的作品, 艺术收集, 物质文化.

她的专著, The Palazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona: Constructing Identity in 近代早期罗马 (2008), launched her interests in the world of 教皇法庭, 教皇英诺森十世的赞助, 潘菲利家族, and their contributions to shaping the city of 罗马. The book explores the social rise of the Pamphilj, 宫殿的建筑历史, the relationship between architecture and self-representation, and the role of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s famous Four Rivers Fountain in this story.

Her next project brought together an interdisciplinary group of local, 国家, and inter国家 scholars to examine the wide-ranging influence of Innocent X and his relatives, 尤其是红衣主教贝内代托·潘菲尔, 在视觉上, 音乐的, 以及罗马的文学艺术, 从1644年到1730年. This wonderful collaborative endeavor resulted in an inter国家 conference at 太阳城网赌平台, 还有编辑过的卷, The Pamphilj and the Arts: 赞助 and Consumption in Baroque 罗马 (2011).

目前, Professor 里昂 is writing a book—titled Building for the Holy Year: Innocent X Pamphilj and Architecture in 罗马—about Innocent X’s projects to renovate 罗马 for the Holy Year of 1650 and how he managed to accomplish so much building in just five years. 同时还要翻查档案, she is using the digital technology of network analysis to analyze the relationships among advisors, 架构师, 以及建筑实践中的工匠.

除了, Professor 里昂 has published many articles and book chapters on related and separate topics, from the Chapel of Francis Xavier in the Gesù church in 罗马, to an eighteenth-century Italian painting masquerading as a Raphael in nineteenth-century Boston. She is grateful for the research support of many institutions, 包括太阳城网赌平台, 罗马的美国科学院, 塞缪尔·H. 克雷斯的基础, 国家美术馆的CASVA, and Harvard University’s 塔蒂别墅 outside 弗洛伦斯.

Professor 里昂 enjoys teaching a repertoire of courses on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art at 太阳城网赌平台. Her classes are informed by her experiences of on-site study in Italy. Special topics include a new course called 罗马重生 (planned for 2025-26), 《太阳城网赌平台》的新成员, 也是我长久以来的最爱, 威尼斯艺术与建筑. While aiming to transport her students back in time, she also considers how the art of the past is displayed in museums today.