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Speaking Engagements on the Arts

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• Guest of Passport to the Palm Beaches with host Jacqueline Journey, segment on Splendor and Passion at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, US, March 2025, PASSPORT TO THE PALM BEACHES BOCA MUSEUM OF ART SEGMENT 2025

• Guest of ArtiGras Fine Arts Festival Podcast with Sarah LaPierre, Episode 3: Art Museums, Florida, US, 2024, (Exploring Spanish Baroque Art & Women in the Art World with Rachel Gustafson and Teresa Russo)

• “ArcGIS Story Map of The Decameron “Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales” for the Governing Council of the University of Toronto, May 19, 2022 with Rion Levy (Governing Council, item 2, 20220519 GC Item 2 Presentation)

• “Dante’s Biographies as Model for Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.” Presentation for the Renaissance Studies of America, Toronto 2019.

• "Renaissance Women in the Arts", Brock University, 2018.

• “Carmen Star: The Face Behind the Label.” Presentation and Exhibit for the Italian Canadian Archives Project Annual Conference, Guelph University, Canada, 2017.

• "Dante’s Literary Structure in the Commedia & Models in Art" (Inf. 6-11 with emphasis on Canto 11) for VIC 202Y: Forms of Representations (Literary and Theory Program), University of Toronto, Canada, 2017

• “Chaucer’s Temples of Venus, a new image for the Memory-House.” Paper for Venus and the Venereal: Interpretations and Representations from Classical, Antiquity through the Eighteenth Century, CMRS, Binghamton University, U.S., April 2008.

• “Antonello da Messina's Commemoration of the Lion of antiquity, pursuing the contemplative and active life: Saint Jerome in His Study.” Paper for Rinascimento e Rinascimenti: Storia, Lingua, Cultura e Periodizzazioni, University of Toronto, 2002.

• “Preserving Mystical Illumination: Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Genealogia deorum gentilium for Early Modern Artists.” Paper presented for Works in Medieval Studies (WIMS), CMS, University of Toronto, Dec. 2000.

• “Artist on Display” for Jones TV, Bowie, MD, US. Television appearance discussing Leonardo Da Vinci’s cross hatching and other artistic techniques. 1999.

• “Antonello da Messina’s St. Jerome in His Study.” Presented at the National Gallery of Art: London, England, March 1997.

 

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