Marisa Bass

Lecturer and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

Northern Renaissance Art
Ph.D., Harvard, 2011

Contact Information

Phone: (212) 854-1938

Office: 653B Schermerhorn Extension
Office Hours: Mondays, 2:30-4

Biography

Marisa Bass specializes in Renaissance art of northern Europe, with a particular focus on art produced in the Low Countries between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her research interests include intersections between art and humanist culture, the visual impact of the Reformation, and Renaissance theories of artistic creation. Her current book project takes the mythological paintings of Jan Gossaert and the local revival of antiquity in the Netherlands as a starting point to critically redefine the notion of a "northern Renaissance."

Selected Publications

"Jan Gossaert's 'Neptune and Amphitrite' Reconsidered," Simiolus 35.1 (2011), pp. 61-83.

"The Hydraulics of Imagination: Fantastical Fountains in the Drawing Books of Jacopo Bellini," in: Imagination und Repräsentation. Zwei Bildsphären der Frühen Neuzeit, eds. Horst Bredekamp, Christiane Kruse, and Pablo Schneider (Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2010), pp. 149-160.

"Justus Lipsius and his Silver Pen," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 70 (2007), pp. 157-194.