Dr Louise Marshall

Research Interests

• Italian Renaissance plague images, with a particular focus on the process of intercession and the protective role of images in coping with the experience of bubonic plague.
• The imagery and cult of St. Sebastian as 'alter Christus' ('another' or 'second Christ').
• St. Nicholas of Tolentino as a 'failed' plague saint.
• Reading the body in the late drawings of Michelangelo Buonarotti

Publications

• A Plague Saint for Venice: Tintoretto at the Chiesa di San Rocco”, Artibus et Historiae, forthcoming 2012
• “Getting Out of Jail Free, or, Purgatory and How to Escape it in Spanish Art”, Cathedral, City and Cloister: Essays on Manuscripts, Music and Art of Spain, Italy and the New World, ed. K. Nelson, Ottawa: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 2011), 195-224
• “Purgatory in the Medieval Imagination: The Earliest Images”, Imagination, Book and Community in Medieval Europe, ed. G. Kratzman, Melbourne: Macmillan & State Library of Victoria, 2009, 212-19
• “Francesco Rufini, Glorificazione di Chiara, S. Chiara, Montefalco”, Santa Chiara da Montefalco. Culto, storia e arte: Corpus iconografico (Saint Clare of Montefalco: Cult, History and Art: Iconographic Corpus), ed. R. Tollo, Tolentino: Biblioteca Egidiana, 2009, cat. 125, pp. 280-1 (with Kate Fletcher)
• “A New Plague Saint for Renaissance Italy: Suffering and Sanctity in Narrative Cycles of Saint Roch”, Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, Convergence. Acts of the 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art, ed. J. Anderson, Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University, 2009, 543-9
• “Plague Literature and Art, Early Modern European”, Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics and Plagues, ed. J. Byrne, 2 vols., Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2008, 2: 522-30
• “Religion and Epidemic Disease”, Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics and Plagues, ed. J. Byrne, 2 vols., Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2008, 2: 593-600
• “Il culto di San Rocco in Toscana nel tardo Quattrocento: i quadri di Bartolomeo della Gatta in Arezzo” (The Cult of Saint Roch in Late Quattrocento Tuscany: Paintings by Bartolomeo della Gatta in Arezzo), Vita Sancti Rochi 2, 2008, 96-109
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  “La costruzione di un santo contro la peste: il caso di Nicola da Tolentino” in San Nicola da Tolentino nell’arte. Corpus iconografico. Vol. 1: Dalle origini al Concilio di Trento, ed. V. Pace and R. Tollo, Milan: Biblioteca egidiana and Federico Motta, 2005, 103-13
• 8 catalogue entries in San Nicola da Tolentino nell’arte. Corpus iconografico. Vol. 1: Dalle origini al Concilio di Trento, ed. V. Pace and R. Tollo, Milan: Biblioteca egidiana and Federico Motta, 2005:
  cat. 26, pp. 245-6: I santi Agostino, Giovanni Battista, un santo vescovo e Nicola da Tolentino con un donatore, Abbadia San Salvatore, eremo di Lecceto
  cat. 63, pp. 264-5: San Nicola da Tolentino salva Pisa dalla peste, Pisa, San Nicola.
  cat. 65, p. 266: San Nicola da Tolentino salva Empoli dalla peste, Empoli, Museo della Collegiata, Bicci di Lorenzo
  cat. 103, pp. 284-5: Madonna dei Raccomandati (recto); San Nicola da Tolentino (verso), Tuscania, Sant’Agostino, Valentino Pica il vecchio
  cat. 150, pp. 307-8: I santi contro la peste Nicola da Tolentino, Rocco, Sebastiano e Bernardino da Siena, con due committenti, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Benozzo Gozzoli e aiuti
  cat. 152, pp. 308-9, Madonna della Misericordia protegge Corciano dalla peste con i santi Agostino, Nicola da Tolentino e Sebastiano, Corciano, Santa Maria, Benedetto Bonfigli
  cat. 153, pp. 309-120, Stendardo di Paciano, Paciano, San Giuseppe
  cat. 222, pp. 344-5, San Nicola da Tolentino, Sesto Calende, oratorio di San Vincenzo, Antonio de Mozis
• “Luxury and Pathos in Girolamo Romanino’s Christ carrying the Cross”, in The Italians in Australia: Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art, ed. D. Marshall, Florence: Centro Di, and The University of Melbourne, 2004, 131-44
• “Reading the Body of a Plague Saint: Narrative Altarpieces and Devotional Images of St. Sebastian in Renaissance Art”, in Reading Texts and Images. Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage, ed. B. Muir, Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2002, 237-60
• “Confraternity and Community: Mobilizing the Sacred in Times of Plague”, in Confraternities and the Visual Arts in the Italian Renaissance. Ritual, Spectacle, Image, ed. B. Wisch and D. Cole Ahl, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 20-45
• “Augustinian Exegesis in the Chiesa del Tau, Pistoia”, in Augustine in Iconography, History and Legend, ed. J.C. Schnaubelt and F. Van Fleteren (Collectanea Augustiniana, IV), New York: Peter Lang, 1999, 595-634
• “Drawing the Renaissance Body”, in Michelangelo to Matisse. Drawing the Figure, eds. T. Maloon and P. Raissis, Sydney: The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1999, 25-37
• “Michiel Coxie (attrib.), Adam and Eve”, in From Vision to Sesquicentenary: The University Through its Art Collection, ed. J. Alison et al., Sydney: The University of Sydney, 1999, 24
• “Manipulating the Sacred: Image and Plague in Renaissance Italy”, Renaissance Quarterly, 47, 1994, 485-532
• Review of A. Moskowitz, Nicola Pisano’s Arca di San Domenico and its legacy, Renaissance Quarterly, 51, 1998, 221-3
• Review of Evelyn Welch, Art and Society in Italy 1350-1500, in The Weekend Australian, July 12-13, 1997, Review section, 7