Vianna Newman Dennis
PhD Candidate, Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, Art History and Archaeology
Education
B.A., Rome and the Renaissance and Italian, Indiana University
M.A., Art History, University of Maryland
Research Expertise
Digital Art History
Digital Humanities
Early Modern Studies
Vianna Newman Dennis is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History & Archaeology, studying Italian Baroque art with Dr. Anthony Colantuono. Her research interests include landscape painting, the history of collecting, and reception theory. Vianna received her MA in Art History from Maryland in 2019 under the supervision of Dr. Colantuono. Her thesis, "Perception, Space, Movement: Illusionistic Ceilings in Seventeenth-Century Rome," addressed the persuasive power of three quadratura ceilings. Vianna has held several curatorial internships and fellowships, including at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York (2015) and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where she
was an intern in 2018 and a University of Maryland Museum Fellow in 2021-2022. Vianna received her BA in Rome and the Renaissance as well as Italian from Indiana University in 2015.