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Professor Kassler-Taub is a specialist in early modern art, architecture, and urbanism, with a focus on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy. Her teaching and research interests include: the transcultural exchange of artistic and architectural knowledge in the Mediterranean; Spanish art and architecture in southern Italy and the colonial Americas; theories of global art history; and the interplay between drawing, sculpture, and architecture during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Professor Kassler-Taub’s current book project explores the architectural and urban development of early modern Palermo, the capital of the Spanish Habsburg viceroyalty of Sicily. Most recently, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (2018-19).
“Building with Water: The Rise of the Island-City in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 78, n. 2 (2019), pp. 145-66.
“Writing the body: Andrea del Verrocchio’s Measured Drawing of a Horse,” Word & Image 37, n. 2 (2019), pp. 97-111.