Nancy
Thompson, Ph.D Click here for Nancy's Home Page 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.
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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. 
