Bernice Iarocci
Bernice Iarocci is currently completing her Ph.D at the University of Toronto with the dissertation, “The Santissima Annunziata of Florence and the Reception of Sacred Images in Counter-Reformation Italy.” Focusing on the Post-Tridentine period and the case study of the miracle-working fresco known as the Santissima Annunziata, this study considers the way that old, sacred images were “framed” in the broadest sense—that is, by means of texts dedicated to them, copies after them, votives offered to them, and works of art that surrounded them in their physical locations.
A specialist in Renaissance and Baroque art, her research interests include: portraiture in sacred and public contexts; fantasy and narcissism, both as concepts in art theory and as practically manifested in works of art; and allegory (especially its formal qualities). Over the past five years she has taught at the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto.