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Beth Mulvaney is Professor of Art and Art Historian at Meredith College, specializing in Italian late Medieval and early Renaissance art with additional expertise in modern and contemporary works. She has developed two major research streams through NEH fellowships: Franciscan art/architecture at San Francesco in Assisi and Clarissan nuns' patronage at Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Venice.
Her scholarship examines devotional practices, visual narratives, and gendered patronage systems in religious contexts. Mulvaney's publications analyze gesture, beholder engagement, and ritual dimensions in masterworks like Duccio's Maestà and Assisi fresco cycles.
Honors include delivering the J. Bernard Schultz Endowed Lecture and receiving the Laura Harrill Presidential Award. As Meredith's 2005 Faculty Distinguished Lecturer and Secretary-Treasurer of SECAC, she promotes scholarly exchange in art history. Her current research investigates Venetian convent art and miracle-working images.
Publication analysis shows consistent focus on Italian devotional art, with recent work exploring Clarissan commissions. Methodological approaches include spatial analysis, gesture interpretation, and audience studies applied to medieval visual culture.
