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Rebekah Compton

Rebekah Compton is associate professor of Renaissance and Baroque art history at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. She is a recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University and the Rush H. Kress Fellowship at the Villa I Tatti, Florence, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Her book Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence was published with Cambridge University Press in the spring of 2021. Rebekah has written articles and essays on Fra Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli, and Michelangelo Buonarroti. Her current book project, Art for the Soul: Camaldolese Spirituality in the Renaissance, examines early modern notions of the soul and its refinement through contemplative spiritual practices, sacred art objects, natural and architectural settings.

Rebekah Compton