Personal profile
Biography
Carol is passionate about learning communities and is keen to avoid artificial distinctions between teaching and research. Her research/teaching focusses on the Italian Renaissance, especially Rome. Issues of institutional and religious identity and difference characterise her enquiries. Her approach is inclusive and multi-disciplinary. She lectures on Italian and Northern, Renaissance and Early Modern art, including specialist option courses on the papal court and on 'Catholic Reform' art in the sixteenth century.
Starting at the University of Edinburgh in 2012, she was head of History of Art in ECA from 2013-16. Before that, she was senior lecturer and associate dean (curriculum and awards) in the Faculty of Arts at The Open University in Milton Keynes.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), The Artistic Patronage of the Cardinals of Pope Pius II (1458-64), University of St Andrews
Award Date: 1 Jan 1996
Keywords
- DG Italy
- Rome
- papacy
- Venerable English College
- Andrea Sansovino
- Michelangelo
- Bernini
- Gilio
- Errors of Painters
Fingerprint
- 1 Similar Profiles
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Reclaiming Rome: Cardinals in the Fifteenth Century
Richardson, C., 2009, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 519 p. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; vol. 173)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Old Saint Peter's, Rome
McKitterick, R. (Editor), Osbourne, J. (Editor), Richardson, C. (Editor) & Story, J. (Editor), Nov 2013, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 324 p. (British School at Rome)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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The Possessions of a Cardinal: Politics, Piety, and Art, 1450–1700
Hollingsworth, M. (Editor) & Richardson, C. (Editor), 2 May 2010, University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. 441 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Luxury fabrics in Scotland: Camels, cardinals and cashmere
Richardson, C. M., 12 Nov 2024, In: Yarn: The Journal of Scottish Yarns. 6, 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Weaving the Edinburgh Seven
Richardson, C. M., 24 May 2024, In: Yarn: The Journal of Scottish Yarns. 5, 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Activities
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The Cornaro Cardinals in the Sixteenth Century
Richardson, C. M. (Assessor)
15 Jan 2026 → 17 Jan 2026Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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In Savonarola’s Shadow: Art, Agency, and Reform in the Dominican Nunneries of Central Italy
Richardson, C. M. (Examiner)
19 Sept 2025Activity: Examination types › External Examiner or Assessor
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The Lasting Implications ofThree Popes and Three Colleges of Cardinals
Richardson, C. M. (Assessor)
29 May 2025Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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A Philosopher, Two Cardinals and an Archaeologist
Richardson, C. M. (Assessor)
25 Feb 2025Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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The Patronage of Girolamo Basso della Rovere and Domenico della Rovere between Turin, Savona, Loreto and Rome, 1477–1507
Richardson, C. M. (Examiner)
13 Sept 2024Activity: Examination types › External Examiner or Assessor
Projects
- 5 Finished
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English Catholic Communities of Collecting
Richardson, C. M. (Principal Investigator)
1/01/23 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Understanding the ‘spiritual’ through the creative art
MacDonald, J. (Co-investigator), Jack, A. (Principal Investigator), Richardson, C. M. (Co-investigator), Mitchell, J. (Co-investigator) & Mccormick, L. (Co-investigator)
7/06/21 → 6/06/23
Project: Research
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The Last English Catholic Church in the World: Art and Sacred Geography in the 1580s
Richardson, C. M. (Principal Investigator)
1/01/19 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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The Last English Catholic Church Remaining in the World: Art and Sacred Geography in the 1580s
Richardson, C. M. (Principal Investigator)
1/10/18 → 30/06/19
Project: Research
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Instrumentalischer Bettlermantl. Electronic edition, terminology and intertextual networks.
Richardson, C. M. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/15 → 31/05/16
Project: Research
Press/Media
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Vatican fashion: Rome's tailors abuzz over prospect of new pope
8/05/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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The pope in a puffer jacket: an art historian on papal fashion and the AI photo that fooled Twitter
30/03/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other