Dr Geraldine A. Johnson

Geraldine Johnson has published widely on the history of sculpture from the late medieval period to the present day, as well as on the visual arts more generally in Early Modern Europe. Her research interests also include the history of photography, the historiography of Art History, and women and the visual arts. Oxford University Press published her Very Short Introduction to Renaissance Art in 2005, with a new edition appearing in 2010 from an imprint of Barnes & Noble. It has also been translated into Chinese, Greek, Turkish, Thai and Vietnamese. She is the co-editor of a prize-winning volume entitled Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and editor of Sculpture and Photography: Envisioning the Third Dimension (Cambridge University Press, 1998). 

At present, she is completing a book entitled The Sound of Marble: The Sensory Reception of Art in Renaissance Italy with funding from the Leverhulme Trust, which will be published by Cambridge University Press.  Future projects include De-Facing the Portrait: The Early Modern Body in Parts, an historiographical study entitled Art History’s Images, and an edited volume with the working title of Crossing Continents: Expatriate histories of Art. In 2009, she was awarded a University Teaching Prize for her work in establishing Oxford's undergraduate degree in History of Art.  She is currently the Associate Head of the Humanities Division in charge of Undergraduate Studies and the Tutor for Admissions at Christ Church, Oxford.