Talks

Invited Conference Papers

2026

 ‘Artistic Encounters: Orsino Benintendi, Verrocchio, and the Exchange of Aesthetic and Technical Know-How in Renaissance Florence’– A Material World: Encounters, The Warburg Institute, 7 July 2026.

‘ ‘Monna Paola donna di Piombino fa rifare la sua immagine’ – concepts of durability and repair and wax ex-votos in fifteenth-century Florence’ – The Working Renaissance working group meeting, online, 20 March 2026.

2025

‘ ‘Beate Virginis Marie cum cruce depicte in gula’: visual and testamentary traces of an unusual Marian iconography’ – Art and Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death annual meeting, Castello di San Severo, 17 September 2025.

‘Reconstructing the medieval wax workshop: a Florentine case study’ – Monash Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies seminar, online, 15 August 2025.

‘Material metamorphosis in late fifteenth-century Florentine sculpture’ – Intermediality, Working Renaissance Working Group Meeting online, 7 March 2025.

‘Mapping wax in Renaissance Florence: a case study’ – Digital Humanities at the Warburg: Current Research and Future Directions, Warburg Institute, 13 February 2025.

2023

‘Mapping Wax: locations, contexts and networks of wax workshops in quattrocento Florence’ – Artists’ Workshop Practice in the Renaissance, Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell’ Arte, Florence, 20 – 21 September 2023.

‘Squeezing out any roughness from the wax’’: reappraising wax as a sculptural material in Renaissance Florence’ – College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, 15 February 2023. [Unable to attend due to travel costs]. 
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2022

‘Making yourself in wax: the metamorphic potential of the wax ex-voto’ – Transformative Bodies in the Premodern World: Experiences and Materials, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 27 June 2022. 

Conference Papers

2026

‘Testamentary Bequests for Ecclesiastical Maintenance and Memory in Perugia from the Late 13th Century to 1525’ – International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 9 July 2026.

2023

‘Re-materialising the Florentine wax ex-voto’ – Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, San Juan, 11 March 2023. [Unable to attend due to travel costs]. 

​2022

‘Waxing on: new approaches to wax as a votive material in Renaissance Florence’ –Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Virtual, 1 December 2022. 

2021

​‘Schism, obedience and genealogy in Neri di Bicci’s San Giovanni Gualberto Enthroned’ – Neue Tendenzen der Italienforschung zu Mittelalter und Renaissance conference, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome/online, 29 November 2021.

‘Legislating materiality: wax in Florentine guild statutes 1300-1500’ – 4th Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval: (In)Materiality in Medieval Art, Complutense University of Madrid (online), 12 November 2021. 

‘The Florentine wax workshop: location and organisation’ – The Working Renaissance working group meeting, online, 18 June 2021.  

‘Mapping production: wax workshops in Renaissance Florence’ – Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Virtual, 13 April 2021.