Professor Anne Dunlop

Anne Dunlop holds the Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne, where she also serves as Director of the Australian Institute of Art History. Her research is focused on Italian and southern European art between  c. 1300 and 1500, and she has particular interests in artistic cultural exchange, and in the materials and technologies of art-making. She has been a Visiting Professor at both Peking University and Zhejiang University. In 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in recognition of her work.

While at Merton, she will be working on a book about the artistic and cultural links between Italy and Asia under the Mongol Empire. The research picks up from her 2023 book The Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History (2023). Her other books include Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy; The Matter of Art: Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics, c. 1250–1750 (with Christy Anderson and Pamela Smith; and Antipodean Early Modern.