Cassandra Sciortino

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About Cassandra Sciortino

Art Historian - 19th century European Art and Art as Cultural Diplomacy PhD Candidate, History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara Publications Forthcoming, Cassandra Sciortino ed. Art, Identity, & Cultural Diplomacy:(Re) Inventing Eastern and Western Europe from the Cold War to the Present (proposal accepted by Leuven University Press, manuscript in preparation. After peer review, we expect publication Spring 2020 Armand Point’s St.Cecilia & the Painters of the Soul- Bridging Art & Life in Fin de Siècle France, Iconograzia: Rivista scientifica semestrale di scienze sociali e simbolica politica, 2018 2018 The Central Man of All The World: Dante and the Pre-Raphaelites in the Nineteenth Century," in Truth & Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters, ed. Melissa Buron (exh. cat.(Legion of Honor, San Francisco 30 June–30 September 2018). June 2015 review of Diana Esther, Santa Maria Nuova Ospedale dei Fiorentini: Architettura ed assistenza nella Firenze tra Settecento e Novecento, Florence: Polistampa, 2012, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (vol. 74, no. 2) 2012 M. Topić and C. Sciortino “Cultural diplomacy and cultural imperialism: a framework for the analysis,” in Cultural diplomacy and cultural imperialism: European perspective(s),(Bremen/Frankfurt a. M: Peter Lang Verlag, 2012) 2010 “Armand Point's Eternal Chimera and Saint Cecilia: A French Quattrocento Symbolist Aesthetic,"​ The Symbolist Movement: Its Origins and Its Consequences (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).