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Biography

Alice wrote her PhD (University of Manchester) on the art patronage and devotional practice of the Medici grand duchesses of the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She is currently completing a monograph for Ashgate based on her dissertation. In 2003–4 she was Rome Fellow at the British School at Rome where she undertook research on the role of sacred relics in Baroque art and aristocratic devotion. Alice has taught on Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture at the University of Manchester and University College London, and on film at Royal Holloway University of London. She lives in central London.

Publications

Full publications list

“Maria Maddalena d’Austria’s Pilgrimage to Loreto: Visuality, Liminality and Exchange,” in Artful Allies: Medici Women as Cultural Mediators (1533-1743), edited by Christina Strunck. Milan: Silvana, forthcoming September 2011.

Sense and the Senses in Early Modern Art and Cultural Practice, introduced and edited by Alice E. Sanger and Siv Tove Kulbrandstad Walker, and including Alice E. Sanger, “Sensuality, Sacred Remains and Devotion in Baroque Rome”. Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming February 2012.