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Tanya Tiffany

  • Professor, Renaissance and Baroque Art, Art History

Education

  • PhD, Johns Hopkins University, History of Art, 2004
  • MA, Johns Hopkins University, History of Art, 1997
  • BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduated with Honors and Distinction, Majors: Art History and Spanish, 1995

Courses Taught

  • ARTHIST 102 - Renaissance to Modern Art and Architecture
  • ARTHIST 241 - Introduction to Baroque Art
  • ARTHIST 260 - Spanish Visual Art and Culture: 1450-1830
  • ARTHIST 333 - High Renaissance Art in Italy
  • ARTHIST 333 - High Renaissance Art in Italy (online)
  • ARTHIST 342 - Art and Civic Culture in Fifteenth-Century Florence
  • ARTHIST 445 - Art in Seventeenth-Century Spain
  • ARTHIST 447 - Topics in Early Modern Art: Gender and Art in Italy, 1400-1700
  • ARTHIST 700 - Graduate Proseminar in Art History
  • ARTHIST 730 - Velázquez and the Art of Invention
  • ARTHIST 730 - Spirituality and Visual Culture in Golden-Age Spain

Research Interests

  • Golden-Age Spanish painting and sculpture
  • Gender and race in the early modern world
  • Feminine devotion in Post-Tridentine Spain
  • Deventeenth-century artistic theory
  • Early modern texts and images
  • Prints and visual culture in Spain
  • Artistic exchange between Spain and Italy

Selected Publications

Tiffany, Tanya J.“Intellect, Piety, and Religious Experience: Recent Perspectives on El Greco’s Sacred Art in Post-Tridentine Spain” Ashgate Research Companion to El GrecoEd. Schrader, Jeffrey. Ashgate. ().
Velázquez Re-Examined: Theory, History, Poetry, and Theatre [co-edited] with Giles Knox], prospectus for edited volume accepted by Brepols PublishersEd. Tiffany, Tanya J., and Knox, Giles. Brepols Publishers. .
Tiffany, Tanya J.“"Little Idols": Royal Children and the Infant Jesus in the Devotional Practice of Sor Margarita de la Cruz (1567-1633)” The Early Modern Child in Art and HistoryLondon: Pickering & Chatto. (2015).
Tiffany, Tanya J.Diego Velázquez’s Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century SevillePennsylvania State University Press. 2012.
Tiffany, Tanya J.Diego Velázquez: Madre Jerónima de la FuenteSacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World, (exh. cat., Indianapolis Museum of Art, distributed by Yale University Press, 2009). 2009: p. 292
Tiffany, Tanya J.“Light, Darkness, and African Salvation: Velázquez’s Supper at Emmaus” Art History31.1 (2008): 33-56.
Tiffany, Tanya J.Velázquez’s Bodegones and the Art of Emulation18. 2006: 79-95
Tiffany, Tanya J.Visualizing Devotion in Early Modern Seville: Velázquez’s Christ in the House of Martha and Mary32.2 2005.