Irene Brooke received her BA in Classics from Brown University, and her MA and PhD from the 91ÖÆƬ³§. Her PhD, completed in 2011, examined the Venetian cardinal, Pietro Bembo’s involvement with the visual arts. Her research interests are focused primarily on the intersections between artistic and intellectual culture in early sixteenth-century Venice. She has published articles on Cardinal Pietro Bembo’s patronage and collecting strategies, and on different aspects of the career of the humanistically educated engraver, Giulio Campagnola. She has also recently co-edited a volume on the portrait cultures of Early Modern cardinals.
Besides teaching on the arts of Renaissance Venice at the 91ÖÆƬ³§, she is also Head of Research at the Colnaghi Foundation and Editor of the Colnaghi Studies Journal.
Teaching
MA Italian Renaissance – ‘Versions of Antiquity in Renaissance Venice, ca. 1470-1550’
Research Interests:
- Collecting in Venice
- Early sixteenth-century Print Culture
- Portraiture
- Landscape
- Reception of Antiquity
- Cultural Exchange between the Italy and Northern European
Recent Conference Papers
- Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans,ÌýPortraying the Prince of the Church,Ìýjoint panel organiser and speaker,ÌýCardinals in Action: Group Portraits of Cardinal Bembo and His Friends after Trent, March 2018
- Università degli Studi di Padova,ÌýIl Paesaggio veneto nel Rinascimento europeo,Ìýinvited speaker,ÌýThe Evolution of Landscape in Giulio Campagnola’s Work and the Influence from the North, October 2017
- 91ÖÆƬ³§ Institute and the Royal Academy of Arts,ÌýIn Age of Giorgione, joint organiser and speaker,ÌýTratta da Zorzi: Rethinking Giulio Campagnola’s Artistic Evolution and his Place in Venetian Print Culture, May 2016
- 91ÖÆƬ³§ Institute, Research Forum,ÌýNew Evidence for the Date of Giulio Campagnola’s Death and Reflections on Domenico Campagnola’s Early Career, February 2014
- 91ÖÆƬ³§ Institute, Conference on Renaissance Portraiture,ÌýFrom Poet to Cardinal: Pietro Bembo’s Iconography Reconsidered, April 2012
Publications
Books
- Co-editor with Piers Baker-Bates,ÌýPortrait Cultures of the Early Modern Cardinal, Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming 2021
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- ‘Group Portraits of Cardinal Bembo and His Friends after Trent’,Ìý¾±²ÔÌýPortrait Cultures of the Early Modern Cardinal, eds. Brooke and Baker-Bates, Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming 2021
- ‘The Evolution of Landscape in Giulio Campagnola’s Work and the Influence from the North’, ¾±²ÔÌýIl Paesaggio Veneto nel Rinascimento Europeo, eds. A. Caracausi, M. Grosso, and V. Romani, Officina Libraria, 2020
- ‘Tratta da Zorzi: Giulio Campagnola’s Copies after other Artists and his Use of Models’, ¾±²ÔÌýNot Only Copies: Memory, Authority and Creativity in the Transmission of Models, ed. M. Bellavitis, Brill, 2018
- ‘Giulio Campagnola, Landscape and Venetian Illumination’,ÌýColnaghi Studies Journal 3 (2018)
- ‘Il molto cortese e gentile M. Giulio Campagnola’ and his ‘gargion’: New evidence for the Date of Giulio’s Death and Reflections on Domenico’s Early Career’, ¾±²ÔÌýPietro Bembo: da Venezia a Roma, ed. V. Romani, The Univerisity of Padua Press, forthcoming
- ‘Pietro Bembo, the Goldsmith Antonio da San Marino, and designs by Raphael’,ÌýThe Burlington Magazine 153 (2011)
- ‘Per farne poi di esse donationiÌý°Ú…]Ìýper lasciar perpetua memoria a i posteri de i nomi di coloro: Gifts of Ancient Coins to Pietro Bembo’, ¾±²ÔÌý‘Una insalata di più erbe’: A Festschrift for Patricia Rubin,ÌýThe 91ÖÆƬ³§ Instiute, 2011
Reviews
- Titian’s Aretino: A Contextual 91ÖÆƬ³§ of all the Portraits, by R. Waddington, 2018, book review,ÌýThe Burlington Magazine 161 (2019)
- Aldo Manuzio, Venice, 2016, exhibition review ¾±²ÔÌýRenaissance Studies 32 (2017)
- Palma Vecchio,ÌýBergamo, 2015, exhibition review ¾±²ÔÌýRenaissance Studies 31 (2016)
- Veronese,ÌýLondon, Verona, and Vicenza, 2014, exhibition review ¾±²ÔÌýRenaissance Studies 30 (2016)
- Pietro Bembo e le arti, book review,ÌýThe Burlington Magazine 157 (2015)
- Pietro Bembo,ÌýPadua, 2013, exhibition review,ÌýThe Burlington Magazine 155 (2013)