Una D'Elia, Queen's University

Research

sculpture Renaissance polychrome effigy devotion colour literature geography

Latest funding

Fictive Flesh: Painted sculpture in the Italian Renaissance
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$58,445
Fictive Flesh: Painted sculpture in the Italian Renaissance
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$23,672
Statues that Blush and Bleed: Painted Sculpture in Northern and Southern Italy in the Sixteenth Century
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$50,947

All 5 grants and awards

Fictive Flesh: Painted sculpture in the Italian Renaissance

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: D'Elia, Una R.

Keywords: sculpture; Renaissance; polychrome; effigy; devotion; colour; literature; geography; idolatry

$58,445

Fictive Flesh: Painted sculpture in the Italian Renaissance

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: D'Elia, Una R.

Keywords: sculpture; Renaissance; polychrome; effigy; devotion; colour; literature; geography; idolatry

$23,672

Statues that Blush and Bleed: Painted Sculpture in Northern and Southern Italy in the Sixteenth Century

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: D'Elia, Una

Keywords: (1) sculpture; (2) colour; (3) devotion; (4) cult; (5) Renaissance; (6) polychrome; (7) Italy; (8) Spain; (9) Counter-Reformation

$50,947

Sculpture and color in fifteenth-century Tuscany

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: D'Elia, Una R.

Keywords: color; sculpture; polychrome; Renaissance; Florence; siena; terracotta; wood; Donatello; Luca della Robbia; Andrea del Verrocchio; Jacopo della Quercia; devotion; annunciation; crucifixion; Madonna; portraits; effigies

$85,500

Allegory and ambiguity in 16th-century Italian art

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: D'Elia, Una R.

Keywords: Renaissance; allegory; mannerism; painting; sculpture; printmaking; hermeticism; ambiguity; hermeneutics; Raphael; Giorgio Vasari; counter reformation; Anton Francesco Doni

$64,481

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: sculpture Dear Professor D'Elia, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on sculpture connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Fictive Flesh: Painted sculpture in the Italian Renaissance" (2023), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]