Dr Marie-Louise Lillywhite
Fellow by Special Election
About
Dr Marie-Louise Lillywhite is a Fellow by Special Election of Keble College and a member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford. She is an expert on Italian Renaissance Art with a particular focus on Venice. Dr Lillywhite has published extensively on the subject, most recently Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice (CUP, 2025) and the co-edited volume Tintoretto: Identity, Practice, Meaning (Viella, 2022).
Expertise
- History of art
- Renaissance art
- Baroque art
- Venice
- Counter-Reformation
- Tintoretto (painter)
- Veronese (painter)
- Iconoclasm
Selected publications
- Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice (2025)
- Jacopo Tintoretto: Identity, Practice, Meaning (2022)
- Artistic Liberty and Its Limits: Tintoretto’s Temptation of Saint Anthony Abbot for Antonio Milledonne (2022)
- The Decoration of the Church of San Giacomo dall’Orio in Venice, 1567–1606: Palma il Giovane, Giovanni Maria da Ponte and the Counter-Reformation (2019)
- The Decoration of the Jesuit Church of the Madonna dell’Umiltà in Venice, 1560-1606 (2018)
Recent media work
Languages
English, Italian