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    Felicia Else is a Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at Gettysburg College, PA. Her research specialities include 16th-century Granducal Florence, especially public sculpture as well as interdisciplinary studies on water, art, natural history and festivals. She has published on the work of Bartolomeo Ammannati and his Neptune Fountain in Florence.

    Education

     

    Ph. D. in Art History, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, 2003


    Dissertation:  “Water and Stone:  Ammannati’s Neptune Fountain as Public Ornament”


    Advisor:  William E. Wallace


    M. A. in Art History, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, 1994 


    B. A. in Art History with Foreign Language Concentration, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas


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      Publications

       

      The Politics of Water in the Art and Festivals of Medici Florence:  From Neptune Fountain to Naumachia, Abingdon UK and New York: Routledge, 2019.


      “Fountains of Wine and Water and the Refashioning of Urban Space in the 1565 Entrata of Florence” in Architectures of Festival:  Fashioning and Re-Fashioning Urban and Courtly Space in Early Modern Europe, eds. J. R. Mulryne, Krista De Jonge, Pieter Martens and Richard Morris, (Abingdon UK and New York: Routledge, 2018), 73-97.


      “Vasari, the River God and the Expression of Territorial Power under Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici,” Vasari in Cultural Context issue of Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 39.1 (Summer 2013), 71-84.


      “Horses of a Different Colour:  Marmo Mischio and Ammannati’s Remarkable Chariot of Neptune,” Sculpture Journal, vol. 21.1 (2012), 27-41.


      “Globefish, Sturgeon and Trout:  Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici, Bachiacca and the Consuming Culture of Fish,” Medicea.  Rivista interdisciplinare di studi medicei, n. 9 (June, 2011), 20-29.


      “Bartolomeo Ammannati:  Moving Stones, Managing Waterways and Building an Empire for Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici,” The Sixteenth Century Journal, 42/2 (Summer 2011), 393-425.


      “Controlling the Waters of Granducal Florence:  a New Look at Stefano Bonsignori’s View of the City (1584),” Imago Mundi, vol 61:2 (June 2009), pp. 168-185.


       

      “Ammanati’s Shield of Achilles:  Making a Virtue out of Necessity,” SOURCE.  Notes in the History of Art, xxviii/1 (Fall 2008), pp. 30-38.


       


      “‘La maggior porcheria del mondo’—documents for Ammannati’s Neptune Fountain,” Burlington Magazine, 147 (July 2005), pp. 487-491.


      “Giulio Ballino and the Florentine Corridoio,”  Mapline, no. 92 (Winter 2000-01), pp. 1-5.









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