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Sally Anne Hickson

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School of Fine Art and Music

University of Guelph

Guelph, Ontario

N1G 2W1

Room 118, Johnston Hall

Tel: 519 824 4120 x58234

E-mail: shickson@uoguelph.ca

Current Position: Assistant Professor Art History, School of Fine Art
and Music, University of Guelph

Education

  • PhD Art History, Queen's University (Kingston, Canada), December 2003
  • MA Art History, Queen's University (Kingston, Canada), 1995
  • BA Hons. Art History and Italian Language and Literature, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada),1992

Present Position

  • 2006 - present Assistant Professor, Art History, School of Fine Art and Music, University of Guelph

Previous Positions

  • 2003-2006 Assistant Professor Visual Arts and Great Books Liberal Studies (cross-appointment, tenure track), Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
  • 2002 Sessional Lecturer, Queens's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
  • 2001-2002 Assistant Professor (CLA), one-year term, School of the Arts, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  • 2000-2001 Sessional Lecturer, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
  • 1997-2000 Teaching Assistant, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and Venice, Italy (Queen's University Summer School)
  • 1996 Sessional Lecturer, Queen's University, Venice, Italy (Venice Summer School)
  • 1994-1997 Assistant to Chief Research Curator, Canadian Centre for Architecture/Centre Canadien d'Architecture, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Publications

Books (collaborative):

  • Collaborator with Professor Clifford M. Brown, Per dare qualche splendore a la gloriosa
    cit da Mantua. Documents for the Antiquarian Collection of Isabella d'Este    . With the
    collaboration of Anna Maria Lorenzoni and Sally Hickson (Rome: Bulzoni, 2002).

Book Chapters:

  • More Than Meets the Eye: Federico II Gonzaga, Giulio Romano and the Triumph of Trompe l'Oeil at
    the Palazzo del Te in Mantua. Accepted for inclusion in Disguise, Deception and Trompe l'Oeil.
    Proceedings from the 4th Biennial Image and Imagery Conference, Brock University. Forthcoming from
    Peter Lang, New York, 2008.
  • Pretty Maids All in a Row: Some Thoughts on Collections of Female Beauties in the Renaissance.
    In Beauty and the Abject: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (New York: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 117-130.
  • With Professor Clifford Brown, La commissione quale vostra signoria me diede quando io fui
    questo maggio a Mantua Fra Sabba da Castiglione, Isabella d'Este e l'antichit di Rodi.
    In Sabba da Castiglione 1480-1554. Dalle corti rinascimentali alla Commenda di Faenza. Atti
    Del Convegno, Faenza, 19-20 maggio 2000. A cura di Anna Rosa Gentilini (Florence: Olschki,
    2004), pp. 281-296.
  • Un concorrente per le collezioni antiquarie di Isabella d'Este: Ludovico Gonzaga e i vasi
    Medicei. In Isabella d'Este. La primadonna del Rinascimento. A cura di Daniele Bini (Mantua:
    Quaderno di Civilt Mantovana, 2001), pp. 155-166.
  • Appendix contributions to Pierre de la Ruffinire DuPrey, Hawksmoor's London Churches.
    Architecture and Theology     (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), pp. 125-128.

Articles in Refereed Journals:

  • Excavating Rome in the Renaissance. Minerva 18:4 (July/August 2007): 38-41.
  • More on the Medici Vases: Bishop Elect Ludovico Gonzaga, Isabella d'Este and Duke
    Ercole d'Este of Ferrara and the Second Sale of Medici Vases 1501-1502, Civilt
    Mantovana    , Anno XXXV, No. 111 (November 2000): 89-98.
  • Caradosso Foppa (ca.1452- 1527), with Prof. C.M. Brown, Arte Lombarda, vol. 119
    (1997/1): 9-38.

Entries in Reference Works:

  • Gentileschi, Artemisia. In Great Lives from History: The Seventeenth Century (1601-1700). Edited by
    Christina J. Moose (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2006).
  • Este, Isabel. In Great Lives from History: The Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600. Edited
    by Christina J. Moose (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2005), pp. 485-487.
  • Colonna, Vittoria. In Great Lives from History: The Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600.
    Edited by Christina J. Moose (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2005), pp. 235-237.

Reviews:

  • Giovan Pietro Bellori. The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects. A New Translation
    and Critical Edition.     Translated by Alice Sedgwick Wohl. Notes by Hellmutt Wohl. Introduction by
    Tomas Montanari. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. In Quaderni d'Italianistica, 27/2
    (Fall 2006): 165-167.
  • George W. McClure. The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy. University of Toronto Press,
    2004. Quaderni d'Italianistica 22/1 (2006): 136-138.
  • Philip Sohm. Style in the Art Theory of Early Modern Italy. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
    Quaderni Italianistica 25/2 (Fall 2004).
  • Margaret Gallucci. Benvenuto Cellini. Sexuality, Masculinity, and Artistic Identity in Renaissance
    Italy    . Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. Quaderni d'Italianistica, 24/2 (2003): 115-117.
  • Barbara Wisch and Diane Cole Ahl (eds). Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual,
    Spectacle, Image    . Cambridge University Press, 2000. Quaderni d'Italianistica 20/1-2 (1999):
    246-249.