Jill Burke

Jill Burke is British historian, art historian and writer best known for her work on the art and culture of Renaissance Italy.

She is Professor of Renaissance Visual and Material Culture in the University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Her work has appeared in The Guardianand The Daily Telegraph, and BBC Radio 4.

Books in order of publication:

Changing Patrons: Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence, 2004. 

Rethinking the High Renaissance, Routledge, 2012. 

The Italian Renaissance Nude, Yale University Press, 2018. 

How to Be a Renaissance Woman, 2024