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Biography

Lydia is Associate Professor and Academic Director in History of Art at the Institute of Continuing Education and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College. She is author of numerous publications, most recently a book, Mural Painting in Britain 1630-1730: Experiencing Histories (Routledge 2020). Lydia previously worked in the museums and heritage sectors, including at Tate, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Kettle’s Yard and the National Trust.

Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • ‘A sketch for the Petworth House staircase identified: new light on the oeuvre and patronage of Louis Laguerre’, The Burlington Magazine (December 2016) , 2016
  • ‘The Image of Venice: Fialetti’s View and Sir Henry Wotton’, The Burlington Magazine (November 2015) , 2015
  • ‘The Sacristy of San Marco, Venice: Form and Function Illuminated’, Art History, 32:3 (June 2009) , 2009
  • Review of ‘The Painted Hall: Sir James Thornhill's Masterpiece at Greenwich’, Georgian Group Journal (December 2020) , 2020

BOOKS

  • Mural Painting in Britain 1630-1730: Experiencing Histories (Routledge 2020) , 2020

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • ‘Rupture through Realism: Sarah Churchill and Louis Laguerre’s Murals at Marlborough House’, in M. Hallett, M. Myrone and N. Llewellyn (eds), Court, Country, City: British Art and Architecture, 1660-1735 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016) , 2016
  • ‘Sure Gate of Heaven: the Sacristy of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari’, in D. Howard and C. Corsato (eds), Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Immagini di Devozione, Spazi della Fede (Centro Studi Antoniani 2015) , 2015
  • ‘The twin sacristy arrangement in Palladio’s Venice: origins and adaptations’, in N. Avcioglu and E. Jones (eds), Architecture, Art and Identity in Venice and its Territories (Ashgate 2013) , 2013
  • ‘Longinus and the Baroque Sublime in Britain’, in N. Llewellyn and C. Riding (eds), The Art of the Sublime (Tate Research website, 2013) , 2013
  • ‘The Longinian Sublime, Effect and Affect in “Baroque” British Visual Culture’, in C. van Eck et al. (eds), Translations of the Sublime: the early modern reception and dissemination of Longinus' Peri Hupsous in rhetoric, the visual arts, architecture and the theatre (Brill 2012) , 2012
  • 'Painted Interiors' in T. Barber, ed, British Baroque: Power and Illusion (Tate 2020) , 2020
  • ‘Mural Cycles in Britain and Continental Influences’, in S. Hoppe, H. Laß, H. Karner (eds), Gemalte Herrschaft – Barocke Deckenmalerei an Europas Höfen um 1700 (Hirmer Verlag 2020) , 2020

Position

Associate Teaching Professor and Academic Director for History of Art and Visual Culture