Rachel Healy
| Biography: Rachel is a final year PhD student at the School of Art History & Cultural Policy. She also holds a BA and first-class honours MA from the same, as well as a Diploma in Gemmology from the Gemmological Association of Great Britain. Rachel is an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland scholar, and has previously worked as a tutor and guest lecturer in the School, focusing on European Art (1350-1800). Rachel has also worked in UCD as an Executive Assistant and Exam Invigilator. Previously, she has worked in O’Reilly’s Auction Rooms, Adam’s Auctioneers, John Weldon’s Auctioneers, Design Factory, The Hunt Museum and the Kevin Sharkey Art Gallery and has also volunteered at the Chester Beatty Library, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Contemporary and the Courtauld Institute of Art. Rachel was previously the Art & Architecture Editor of the University Observer and is currently on the Editorial Board for the Irish Association of Art Historian’s journal, Artefact.. |
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| Research: Rachel's thesis, Portraits of Giorgio Cornaro and his Heirs: Resolving issues of Identity, Authorship and Patronage in Renaissance Venice and Beyond, will resolve long-standing scholarly confusion over the identity, patronage and authorship of prominent painted and sculpted portraits of Giorgio Cornaro (1452-1527) and his heirs - members of one of Venice’s most important and influential aristocratic families - across the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. The research will be particularly focusing on Cardinal Francesco Cornaro (1478-1543), Cardinal Marco Cornaro (1482-1524), Giacomo Cornaro (1483-1542), Girolamo Cornaro (1485-1551) and Giovanni Cornaro (1493-1551). The thesis looks at the portraits in the eighteenth-century Cornaro Family Tree in an attempt to identify and rediscover the lost portraits of the family. Rachel’s work is primarily focused on the identities of the figures in Titian’s Man with a Falcon at the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha and Titian’s Girolamo and Cardinal Marco Corner Investing Marco, Abbot of Carrara, with His Benefice at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.. Her MA dissertation, which directly informed her current research, concerned the previously anonymous sitters in a sixteenth-century Venetian double portrait in the National Gallery of Ireland, which has recently been retitled to a portrait of Giorgio Cornaro and his son, Cardinal Francesco. Rachel’s research is funded by the Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship (2020-2022). She also received support from the Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award (2020 and 2023), Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Venetian Research Program (2022), School of Art History and Cultural Policy Travel Awards for Postgraduate Research (2022), School of Art History and Cultural Policy Alumni Research Support Award (2021-22) and the UCD College of Arts and Humanities Graduate School Board Travel Grant (2023, 2022, 2021, 2019 and 2020). |
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| Keywords: Venice; Venetian painting; Sixteenth century; Renaissance; Genealogy; Portraiture; Unidentified portraits; Cornaro; Italy; Titian; Costume; Cardinals; Identity |
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| Contact: (opens in a new window)rachel.healy@ucdconnect.ie / (opens in a new window)https://linktr.ee/rachelhealyarthistory |
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| Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Philip Cottrell |
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