Helen Hills and Alice E. Sanger

Abstract

This introduction sets out the rationale, themes and organisation of the special issue.

Keywords: artist’s house, house museum, cultural tourism, neighbourhood, house, home, everyday, studio, dwelling, dispossession, pilgrimage, saint’s shrine, relic

Full text: OAJ_issue-11-final_article_0a

DOI: 10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2024s00A

Biographical notes 

Helen Hills has published widely on baroque art and architecture and theory of architecture, particularly on the interplay of architecture, spirituality, gender, and social class in the long 17th century, including The Matter of Miracles: Neapolitan Baroque Architecture and Sanctity (Manchester UP, 2016). Horrified by the complicity of art history with art and architecture in the work of marginalizing specific social groups depending on social class, poverty, gender, colour of skin, and geographical location, she has focused principally on women and on southern Italy, including Naples and Sicily. She taught at Queen’s University (Canada), Keele University (UK), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA), and the University of Manchester before moving to York, where she was the first ever woman professor of art history.

Alice E. Sanger is an associate lecturer and an honorary associate in the Department of Art History at The Open University.  A former Rome Fellow at the British School at Rome, Alice has published on the devotional practice and art patronage of the Medici grand duchesses of the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and co-edited, with Siv Tove Kulbrandstad Walker, the anthology Sense and the Senses in Early Modern Art and Devotional Practice (Ashgate, 2012/Routledge, 2018). She is managing editor of the Open Arts Journal.