Dr Marie-Louise Lillywhite
I am an art historian whose research focuses predominantly on art and architecture in early modern Venice. I have published extensively on various aspects of the city’s visual heritage, including Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and Tintoretto: Identity, Practice, Meaning (Co-Editor, Viella, 2022). I am particularly interested in the limits of artistic freedom in sixteenth-century Italy, but I have also published on topics that include the role of women in forming alliances between artistic workshops; the patronage of clergy and confraternities; and the modernist garden of Bevis Bawa in Sri Lanka. I am a Fellow by Special Election at Keble College and Senior Tutor of the Middlebury-CMRS Oxford Humanities programme.
