Carol M. Richardson is Senior Lecturer in Art History at The Open University. Her research focuses on Rome, in particular the patronage of the College of Cardinals, and the art and architecture of the Venerable English College. In 2008 Carol won a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded to outstanding young scholars of substantial distinction and promise.
Carol welcomes enquiries from research students interested in studying the art and culture of papal Rome, of Renaissance Europe and of Anglo-papal cultural relations.
She has recently given invited lectures in Berlin, Colchester, London, Münster and Rome. Her books on cardinals’ patronage, Reclaiming Rome: Cardinals in the Fifteenth Century and The Possession of a Cardinal: Politics, Piety and Art 1450-1700 (ed.) were written as part of the AHRC research project The Court Culture of Early Modern Rome 1450-1650, a collaboration with the University of Edinburgh. She is currently writing a book-length study on the Venerable English College and is co-editing a volume of essays on Old Saint Peter’s, Rome, based on papers presented at a conference she organized and co-convened.
Carol moved to Walton Hall in 2001, having previously taught for The Open University in Scotland, University of Edinburgh, Aberdeen University and the University of St Andrews. Her contributions to Open University course materials include blocks in the MA in Art History on Caravaggio and on historiography. She has also contributed several chapters to the renaissance art history module, AA315 Renaissance art reconsidered, on mathematical perspective, Rome, and on the art of death. She is contributing a unit on the Baroque artist, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to the new second level art history module, A226, which will be presented from October 2012.
She is Academic Convener for the 2012 Association of Art Historians annual conference, which will be hosted by The Open University at Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, 29-31 March. For more information follow this link.
Contact: c.m.richardson@open.ac.uk
Reclaiming Rome: Cardinals in the Fifteenth Century (E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2009)
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The Possessions of a Cardinal: Art, Piety and Politics 1450-1700, Mary Hollingsworth and Carol M. Richardson (eds) (Penn State University Press, 2009) including essay ‘Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini (1439-1503), Sant’Eustachio and the Consorteria Piccolomini’.
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Locating Renaissance Art, editor, (Yale University Press in association with The Open University, 2007) including introductions and essay ‘The Allure of Rome’.
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Renaissance Art Reconsidered: An anthology of primary sources, Carol M. Richardson, Kim W. Woods and Mike Franklin (eds), (Blackwell 2007).
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Britannia Italia Germania: Taste & Travel in the Nineteenth Century Carol Richardson and Graham Smith (eds), VARIE Occasional Papers I (Edinburgh, 2001) including essay ‘“Glorious hopes and designs”: The Pugins in Rome’.
‘Andrea Pozzo and the Venerable English College, Rome’, in David Marshall, Susan Russell and Karin Wolfe (eds), Roma Britannica: Art Patronage and Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Rome, (British School at Rome, 2011), 25–37
‘The English College Church in the 1580s: Durante Alberti’s Altarpiece and Niccolo Circignani’s Frescoes’, in Andrew Headon et al, The Church of the English College in Rome: Its History, its Restoration (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2009), 34–51
‘The Churches of the Venerable English College’, in Andrew Headon et al, The Church of the English College in Rome: Its History, its Restoration (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2009), 68–85
‘“Ruined, untended and derelict”: fifteenth-century papal tombs in St Peter’s’, in Jill Burke and Michael Bury (eds), Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome, (Ashgate, 2008), 191-207.
‘Edward Pugin and English Catholic Identity: The New Church of the Venerable English College in Rome’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 66, 2007, 340-365
‘Art and Death’ in Kim W. Woods, Carol M. Richardson and Angeliki Lymberopoulou (eds) Viewing Renaissance Art, (Yale University Press in association with The Open University, 2007), 209-245
‘Constructing Space in Renaissance Painting’ in Kim W. Woods (ed.) Making Renaissance Art, (Yale University Press in association with The Open University, 2007), 62-100
‘Durante Alberti, the Martyrs’ Picture and the Venerable English College, Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome, 73 (2005), 223-263
‘The Housing Opportunities of a Renaissance Cardinal’, Renaissance Studies, 2003 607-627
‘A Cabat for the National Gallery of Scotland: The true identity of Louis-Nicholas Cabat’s Villa Medici’, Apollo, March 2000, 48-51
‘The Lost Will and Testament of Cardinal Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini (1439-1503)’, Papers of the British School at Rome, 66, 1998, 193-214
‘‘The Perpetual Resurrection’: The Garden of the Venerable English College at Rome’, Venerabile, 31, 1998, 8-29
‘St Peter’s in the Fifteenth Century: Paul II, the Archpriests and the Case for Continuity’ in Old Saint Peter’s, Rome, Rosamond McKitterick, John Osborne, Carol M. Richardson and Joanna Story eds
‘St Joseph, St Peter, Jean Gerson and the Guelphs’, Renaissance Studies
See also Open Research Online for further details of Carol M. Richardson’s research publications.
2011-14 External Examiner, BA Art History, Birkbeck College, University of London
2010-12 Academic Convener, AAH annual conference 2012
2008-10 Trustee and Honorary Secretary, Association of Art Historians
2006-9 Associate Dean (Curriculum and Awards), Faculty of Arts, The Open University
2005-9 Member of Faculty of Archaeology, Humanities and Letters, British School at Rome
2002-5 Honorary Editor, The Art Book (Association of Art Historians)
Academic reviewer for: Wiley-Blackwell, Laurence King, Ashgate, Pennsylvania State University Press, Renaissance Studies, Papers of the British School at Rome
