Vianna Newman Dennis
PhD, 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
Ph.D., Art History, University of Maryland
Research Expertise
Early Modern Studies
Vianna Newman Dennis earned her PhD studying Italian Baroque art with Anthony Colantuono. Her dissertation evaluates the landscape paintings of Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin and investigates their shared artistic sources and patronage. Vianna received her MA in Art History from Maryland in 2019 under the supervision of Dr. Colantuono. Her thesis addressed the persuasive power of three illusionistic ceilings. Vianna has held several curatorial internships and fellowships, including 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.