Leah R. Clark

Leah’s research explores the exchange and mobility of art objects in the fifteenth century. She is interested in the intersections between collecting, diplomacy, and trade in the Italian courts (Ferrara and Naples in particular). Her current interests focus around the global collection of objects have led me to expand outwards from Italy to consider exchanges with the Mamluk and Ottoman courts and also consider the sensorial conditions of transcultural objects. Her publications include Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court: Objects and Exchanges (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects Between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023). Leah directs the History of Art programme for the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford. She also co-organises with Helen Coffey (Music, the Open University) an interdisciplinary conference on Early Modern Sensory Experiences (EMSE) at Kellogg College annually.

Twitter: @DrLeahRClark

The Digital Humanities and Sensory Heritage Network has been awarded for two years (Hilary Term 2022 - Hilary Term 2024).