Expertise: Sixteenth-Century Italian Prints, Durer prints, Artemisia Gentileschi, Raphael.
Florence, Italy.
Dr Alexandra Korey resides in Florence, Italy. She received her PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago, her MA from Syracuse University (Florence, Italy campus), and her BA from York University in Toronto, Canada. She is the recipient of doctoral research grants from The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and from the Government of Italy (Ministero degli Affari Esteri). Her 2007 dissertation is entitled, “Putti, Pleasure, and Pedagogy in Sixteenth-Century Italian Prints and Decorative Arts.” She has published articles on prints including one on Durer and his copyists in the exhibition catalogue, Paper Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800 (2005), and another on Nicoletto da Modena and proverb prints in Italian Art, Society, and Politics – A Festschrift for Rab Hatfield (2007). She has contributed an encyclopedia entry on Artemisia Gentileschi to the Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance (ABC-Clio, 2007). Dr. Korey is currently working on a reconstruction and analytic study of a lost Raphael-school tapestry series, the Giochi di Putti for Pope Leo X. Her research and teaching interests include: prints, copying, and audiences; the transitional period between manuscripts and printed books; visual literacy and reception; and the social history of women and children.
Dr. Korey has resided more or less permanently in Florence, Italy since 1999 and has traveled extensively in Italy and Europe. Despite the particular focus of her research, her expertise extends to Italian painting of the longer Renaissance period.
