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Personal profile: Dr Sally Grant

Email: sally.grant@sydney.edu.au Qualifications PhD, University of Sydney, 2013 BA (Hons), University of Sydney, 2004 Research Area I was awarded my PhD at the University of Sydney in 2013. My dissertation, ‘“Allures of License and Delight”: Eighteenth-Century Garden Spaces and the Playfulness of Veneto Villa Decoration’, explored the agency of the landscape in the shaping of the decoration and of the nobility’s experience of the Veneto country house during the 1700s. I have also taught classes on various aspects relating to the broader subject of early-modern European art and architecture at the University of Sydney. I am now based in New York City where I am currently working on a series of journal articles that will more fully explicate the experiential aspect and transformational potential of the art and culture of eighteenth-century Venetian villeggiatura. One of the ways that I maintain a dialogue with my colleagues in Australia is through the occasional post on topics and events of Italian interest occurring in NYC to the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies blog (http://acis.org.au).

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Fellowships, Awards, and Scholarships Jo-Anne Duggan Essay Prize, 2015; Dora Wiebenson Graduate Student Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper, Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture, 2007; Summer Fellow, Department of Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Research Institute, University of Harvard, Washington DC, 2006; Margaret Ann Bailey Memorial Prize for Honours in a Modern European Foreign Language, University of Sydney, 2004; University of Sydney Medal, 2004. I have also received scholarships and research funding from the University of Sydney; ACIS-Cassamarca Foundation; Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies; and the Historians of 18thC Art and Architecture. Professional Commitments Member of the College Art Association, Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture, and the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Papers Presented April 2014 “A New Approach to Country House Decoration and the Experience of Place: The Case of the Villa Vendramin Calergi at Noventa”, Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture, 50th Anniversary Conference: The Study of Eighteenth-Century European Culture: Past, Present and Future, New York. March 2014 “Caricature in the Garden: Encounters with the Dwarves at Villa Valmarana”, New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Gardens, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia. April 2013 “Questioning Interiority/Exteriority in the Decorative Design of Giandomenico Tiepolo’s “Room of the Carnival Scenes” at the Villa Valmarana “ai Nani””, Interiors as Space and Image”, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio. February 2011 “Garden Chambers and Global Spaces: Giandomenico Tiepolo’s Chinoiserie Room at the Villa Valmarana”, New Scholars Session, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York.

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March 2010 “The World in the Venetian Countryside: The Tiepolos at the Villa Valmarana ai Nani”,“Venice” in the Imagination of the Creative Artist and the Discursive Citizen”, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting Albuquerque, New Mexico. March 2009 “Games in the Venetian Countryside: The Foresteria Alessandri in Mira” Pleasures, Parks, and Pavilions, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Richmond, Virginia. December 2008 “Games along the Brenta Canal: Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini in the Venetian Countryside”, Garden Spaces: Form, Function and Frivolity, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, Queensland College of Art Griffith University and the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. February 2007 “Play in the Garden in Eighteenth-Century Venice”, Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture: Open Session for New Scholars, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York. November 2006 “Drama and Play in the Eighteenth-Century Venetian Garden” Round-table on Intertextuality in Garden Art, Department of Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC. November 2005 “‘Allures of licence and delight’: The Venetian Locus Amoenus and Titian’s Venus of Urbino”, Eye-site: Situating Practice and Theory in the Visual Arts, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, University of Sydney. November 2005 “‘Giorgione and Arcady’ Reconsidered”, Illuminate: The AHCCA Postgraduate Association Conference 2005, School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archaeology, University of Melbourne. May 2005 “Figures from the Commedia dell’arte in Watteau’s Paintings and Drawings”, Exhibition Floor Talk on the occasion of the exhibition “Boucher, Watteau and the Origin of the Rococo: 18th-Century Drawings from the Collection of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris”, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.