Nancy Thompson, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Art History
Office: Dittmann Center, 220
Tele: 507-786-3098
thompsn@stolaf.edu


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Nancy Thompson received her BA from Southern Methodist University and her MA and PhD from Indiana University in Bloomington. Nancy teaches courses on Medieval and Renaissance art, Women’s Studies, in addition to the introductory Art History courses and the junior seminar on art historical methods.


Nancy’s research focuses on stained glass in Italy from the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. She will publish three articles in the next year that stem from her doctoral dissertation, “The Fourteenth-Century Stained Glass of Santa Croce in Florence.” During the spring and summer of 2003, Nancy researched the life and work of the Florentine artist Ulisse De Matteis (1830-1910). The De Matteis workshop, famous in its day for working in the “grand tradition” of the Medieval and Renaissance Italian masters, was an integral part of the restoration of many of the most important religious and civic monuments in Florence and numerous other cities in Tuscany. Nancy is currently working on a book on De Matteis that will explore the relationship between De Matteis’ work and the culture of nationalism in nineteenth-century Florence that encouraged artists to revive their city’s grand artistic past.