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Sarah Cadagin

Art history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., art history, University of Maryland
  • M.A., art history, University of Maryland
  • B.A., art history, Georgetown University

Credentials

  • Professor, art history, 2017–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
  • Adjunct Professor, art history, 2015–2017, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
  • Summer Teaching Assistant, 2008–2011, Georgetown University Villa de Balze, Florence, Italy

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Maryland, Nominee, 2018
  • Estrellitas Volunteer of the Year, 2017–2018
  • Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2016–2017
  • Cosmos Scholars Award, Cosmos Club Foundation, Washington, D.C., 2015
  • Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2015
  • College of Arts and Humanities Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Maryland, 2014
  • Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award, University of Maryland, 2014
  • International Conference Student Support Award, University of Maryland, 2014
  • Misty Daily Senior Art History Award, Georgetown University, 2009
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Georgetown University, 2009
  • Misty Daily Travel Award, Georgetown University, 2008

Organizations

  • Renaissance Society of America
  • Italian Art Society
  • College Art Association
  • The Junior League of Atlanta

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • “Domenico Ghirlandaio and His Workshop in Pisa: Panel Paintings for the Gesuati,” Predella: Journal of Visual Arts 39: 251-266, December 2017.

Presentations

  • “Domenico Ghirlandaio’s High Altarpiece for Santa Maria Novella and the Pre-Tridentine Audience of Italian Altarpieces,” Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 17-19, 2019
  • “The Art of Leonardo da Vinci: Imagination, Fantasy, and Invention,” Atlanta Retired Physician’s Book Club, Heritage Sandy Springs, Sandy Springs, Ga., June 12, 2018
  • “The Miraculous Image and the Renaissance Altarpiece: Domenico Ghirlandaio’s Altarpieces for Lucca Cathedral and Santa Maria Novella, Florence,” Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, SCAD Liberal Arts Lecture Series, Feb. 15, 2018
  • “Curtains, Altarpieces, Relics: Domenico Ghirlandaio and the Cult of the Volto Santo in Lucca Cathedral,” Chicago,  Renaissance Society of America, March 31, 2017
  • “Domenico Ghirlandaio and his Narni Altarpiece: A New Look at an Old Favorite,” Southeastern College Art Conference, Roanoke, Va., Oct. 22, 2016
  • “Ghirlandaio and the Medici: New Considerations on Florentine Art Between City and Countryside, Contado and Empire,” University of Maryland, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Roger Rearick Forum, Nov. 4, 2015
  • “Domenico Ghirlandaio and his Workshop in Pisa: Panel Paintings for the Gesuati,” Renaissance Society of America, Berlin, Germany, March 27, 2015
  • “European and American Garden Design from the Renaissance to the 20th Century,” Primrose Garden Club, Atlanta, Jan. 27, 2015
  • “Masters, Slaves, and Southern American Landscape Painting: Francis Guy’s Perry Hall Slave Quarters (c. 1805),” University of Maryland, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Roger Rearick Forum, Nov. 10, 2010