Alice wrote her PhD (University of Manchester) on the art patronage and devotional practice of the Medici grand duchesses of the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She is currently completing a monograph for Ashgate based on her dissertation. In 2003–4 she was Rome Fellow at the British School at Rome where she undertook research on the role of sacred relics in Baroque art and aristocratic devotion. Alice has taught on Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture at the University of Manchester and University College London, and on film at Royal Holloway University of London. She joined the Open University as an Associate Lecturer in 2005 and currently tutors A226 Exploring Art and Visual Culture and AA315 Renaissance Art Reconsidered. Alice is a Deputy Editor of the Open Arts Journal.
“Maria Maddalena d’Austria’s Pilgrimage to Loreto: Visuality, Liminality and Exchange”, in Artful Allies: Medici Women as Cultural Mediators (1533-1743), edited by Christina Strunck (Milan: Silvana, 2012): pp. 253-65.
Sense and the Senses in Early Modern Art and Cultural Practice, introduced and co-edited with Siv Tove Kulbrandstad Walker (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), and including Alice E. Sanger, “Sensuality, Sacred Remains and Devotion in Baroque Rome”, pp. 199-215.
Art, Gender and Religious Devotion in Grand Ducal Tuscany (Ashgate, forthcoming 2014).
email: a.e.sanger@open.ac.uk
