Dr Lucia Tantardini

Lucia Tantardini was educated in Italy, the US, and the UK. Before undertaking her PhD at Cambridge, she worked in the Old Masters Department at Christie’s in Milan and London, and in the Prints and Drawings Department at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her research centres on the art of the Italian Renaissance and Early Modern period, particularly the interrelation between theory and practice in drawing and painting. She is currently completing her monograph on Aurelio Luini and an edited volume on drawing in Renaissance Milan. Dr Tantardini’s teaching extends more broadly to European art c. 1400–1800. She lectures in the Department of History of Art, where she has also served as Part I Convenor, course leader for the Special Subject Drawing in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy c. 1450–1600—the only academic course devoted exclusively to the art of drawing worldwide—and Outreach Coordinator. She has held fellowships from the Università degli Studi di Milano, the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, and the Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence, as well as a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Clare Hall, where she is currently Vice President-elect, Official Fellow, Praelector, Graduate Tutor, and Lead of the Art and Architecture Special Interest Group.