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WC2R 0RN London
United Kingdom
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Scott Nethersole is a specialist in the art of Renaissance Florence, athough his current research focusses on connections (and the lack of connections) between Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Europe in the fifteenth fentury. He is particularly interested in the ‘Miracle of the Black Leg’ for how it reveals perceptions of Christian Africa in mid-fifteenth-century Florence. He is also currently engaged with research on Lorenzo Ghiberti, which will have two outcomes: a monograph due in 2022/3 and a new edition, translation and commentary of Ghiberti’s writings on art (I commentarii), produced in collaboration with Dr Guilio Dalvit, Prof. Cecilia Panti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) and Prof. Nicholas Temple (School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University). Finally, he is preparing an exhibition focused on Botticelli’s Trinity Altarpiece together with colleagues in the Courtauld Gallery.
Scott read History of Art as a BA and MA student at The Courtauld, where he specialised in Florentine Renaissance art. After four years working for the English furniture department at Sotheby’s, he returned to The Courtauld to take his PhD, writing his thesis on ‘The Representation of Violence in Fifteenth-century Florence’. While writing his doctorate he held the Michael Bromberg Fellowship in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. From 2008 to 2010, he was the Harry M Weinrebe Curatorial Assistant at the National Gallery, London, before returning to The Courtauld to take up the post of Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art in September 2010. Scott curated the exhibition Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500 at the National Gallery in summer 2011.
Until recently, Scott’s research has focused on fifteenth-century Florence, although his teaching embraces much more of central Italy, especially Siena and Perugia. He spent many years studying the relationship between art and violence in Florentine art of the fifteenth century, which resulted in a book, Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence, that appeared with Yale University Press in June 2018. It was followed by Art of Renaissance Florence: A City and its Legacy in January 2019. He is also interested in the reception of Renaissance art, especially in the seventeenth century, by artists such as Sassoferrato and Carlo Dolci.
'The representation of violence in fifteenth-century Florence', The Courtauld Institute of Art
… → Jan 2009
'The arts and patronage in Florence during the times of Lorenzo il Magnifico', The Courtauld Institute of Art
… → 2000
… → 1999
National Gallery, London
2008 → 2010
CEA, Viale di Villa Massimo
2007 → 2008
The British Museum
2007
British Institute, Florence
2006 → 2008
Florence University of the Arts
2006 → 2008
Sotheby's
2000 → 2004
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution