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Sarah Cadagin

Art history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., art history, University of Maryland
  • M.A., art history, University of Maryland
  • B.A., art history, Georgetown University

Credentials

  • Professor of art history, 2017–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
  • Adjunct professor of art history, 2015–17, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
  • Summer teaching assistant, 2008–11, Georgetown University Villa de Balze, Florence, Italy

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Maryland, Nominee, 2018
  • Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2016–17
  • Cosmos Scholars Award, Cosmos Club Foundation, Washington, D.C., 2015
  • Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2015
  • College of Arts and Humanities Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Maryland, 2014
  • Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award, University of Maryland, 2014
  • International Conference Student Support Award, University of Maryland, 2014
  • Misty Daily Senior Art History Award, Georgetown University, 2009
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Georgetown University, 2009
  • Misty Daily Travel Award, Georgetown University, 2008

Organizations

  • Italian Art Society
  • The Junior League of Atlanta

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • "Review: Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence: Screens and Choir Spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform by Joanne Allen," Renaissance Quarterly 76, no. 4 (Winter 2024): 1498-1499.
  • "Domenico Ghirlandaio's High Altarpiece for Santa Maria Novella and the Pre-Tridentine Audience of Italian Altarpieces," in Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period, eds. John Decker and Mitzi Kirkland-Ives (London: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2021): 303-323.
  • "The Interrelation of Curtains, Altarpieces, Relics: Domenico Ghirlandaio's Response to the Cult of the Volto Santo in Lucca Cathedral," in The Interaction of Art and Relics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art, ed. Livia Stoenescu (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020): 67-85.
  • "Domenico Ghirlandaio and His Workshop in Pisa: Panel Paintings for the Gesuati," Predella: Journal of Visual Arts 39: 251-266, December 2017.

Presentations

  • "Moda alla Medici: Fashioning the Self in Renaissance Florence," SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion and Film, SCAD FASH Keynote Exhibition Lecture, January 9, 2020
  • "Visualizing Disease and Healing in Early Modern Art," Savannah College of Art and Design, SCAD Guests and Gusto Virtual Presentation, July 28, 2020
  • "From One Millennial to Another: Teaching the Renaissance in the 21st Century," Italian Art Society-sponsored panel, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, October 19, 2019
  • "Domenico Ghirlandaio's High Altarpiece for Santa Maria Novella and the Pre-Tridentine Audience of Italian Altarpieces," Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 17-19, 2019
  • "The Miraculous Image and the Renaissance Altarpiece: Domenico Ghirlandaio's Altarpieces for Lucca Cathedral and Santa Maria Novella, Florence," Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, SCAD Liberal Arts Lecture Series, Feb. 15, 2018
  • "Curtains, Altarpieces, Relics: Domenico Ghirlandaio and the Cult of the Volto Santo in Lucca Cathedral," Chicago, Renaissance Society of America, March 31, 2017
  • "Domenico Ghirlandaio and his Narni Altarpiece: A New Look at an Old Favorite," Southeastern College Art Conference, Roanoke, Va., Oct. 22, 2016
  • "Ghirlandaio and the Medici: New Considerations on Florentine Art Between City and Countryside, Contado and Empire," University of Maryland, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Roger Rearick Forum, Nov. 4, 2015
  • "Domenico Ghirlandaio and his Workshop in Pisa: Panel Paintings for the Gesuati," Renaissance Society of America, Berlin, Germany, March 27, 2015
  • "Masters, Slaves, and Southern American Landscape Painting: Francis Guy's Perry Hall Slave Quarters (c. 1805)," University of Maryland, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Roger Rearick Forum, Nov. 10, 2010

Languages

  • Italian
  • French (professional proficiency)
  • Spanish (read)
  • German (read)