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Instructor travels to Venice

Stephanie Miller, instructor of art history, presented a paper on "Transitional Spaces of the Italian Renaissance Palazzo" at the annual Renaissance Society of America conference held April 8 to 10 in Venice, Italy. The session was about "Defining Domestic Spaces" in Renaissance Italy. Miller's paper reassessed Renaissance notions of private versus public spaces in the home especially as it was defined by gender. She noted how transitional spaces such as courtyards, doorways and windows concerned moralists who felt that women seen in those spaces created scandal for themselves and their families and how architectural ornament was designed to reduce this potential loss of virtue.

She also chaired a session, organized by Erin Campbell from the University of Victoria, called "At Home in Early Modern Italy: The Bolognese Domestic Interior."

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