Dr. Stephen Campbell’s research and publication in the field of pre-modern Italian art have dealt with the role of art in courts, cities and state formation; the Renaissance literature and theory of art; the body, sex and gender; the histories of collecting and canon formation, and more recently the geographies of art in Italy and the Mediterranean.
His are recent books: The Endless Periphery: Towards a Geography of Art in Lorenzo Lotto’s Italy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019) and Andrea Mantegna: Humanist Aesthetics, Faith, and the Force of Images (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020).
The Da Vinci Myth: An Anti-Biography of Leonardo will appear in 2024, as will The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art, a volume with an international team of 47 contributors which he co-edited with Stephanie Porras.
He is also the co-author, with Michael W. Cole, of Renaissance Art in Italy 1400-1600. London, Thames and Hudson, 2011; second expanded edition 2017, which has also appeared in Italian and in Japanese.
His other books are The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d’Este (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006) and Cosmè Tura of Ferrara. Style, Politics and the Renaissance City 1450-1495 (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1997).
Books in order of publication:
Cosmè Tura of Ferrara. Style, Politics and the Renaissance City 1450-1495 – 1997
The Cabinet of Eros:Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d’Este – 2004
Renaissance Art in Italy 1400-1600 – 2011
The Endless Periphery: Towards a Geography of Art in Lorenzo Lotto’s Italy – 2019
Andrea Mantegna: Humanist Aesthetics, Faith, and the Force of Images – 2020
The Da Vinci Myth: An Anti-Biography of Leonardo – 2024
The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art – 2024
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