Cassandra Sciortino

Faculty - Humanities , Pleasant Hill Campus

• Education
• Courses
• Publications

Education

B.A. - University of California, Berkeley
M.A. - University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD ABD (in progress) - University of California, Santa Barbara

Courses

• Humanities 105: Introduction to the Humanities: Arts & Ideas
  Humanities 111: The Middle Ages & the Renaissance
  Humanities 115: The Multicultural American Experience
  Humanities 116: The Arts & Culture of Asia

Publications

• Sciortino, C. (2023). Armand Point’s The Princess and the Unicorn, Paragone: Past and Present, 4(1), 70-90.
  
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/24761168-00401003

 

• “The Central Man of All The World: Dante and the Pre-Raphaelites in the Nineteenth Century," in Truth & Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters, ed. Melissa Buron (exh. cat. (Legion of Honor, San Francisco 30 June–30 September 2018).
  
  
• Armand Point’s St.Cecilia & the Painters of the Soul- Bridging Art & Life in Fin de Siècle France, Iconograzia: Rivista scientifica semestrale di scienze sociali e simbolica politica, 2018.
  
  
• “Cultural diplomacy and cultural imperialism: a framework for the analysis,” (co-author Martina Topic) in Cultural diplomacy and cultural imperialism: European perspective(s) Martina Topić ; Siniša Rodin (ur.). Frankfurt am Main/Berlin/Bern/Bruxelles/New York/Oxford/Wien: Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2012.
  
  
• "Armand Point's Eternal Chimera and Saint Cecilia: A French Quattrocento Symbolist Aesthetic," in Symbolism Its Origins and Its Consequences ed. by Rosina Neginsky (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).
  
  
• Review of Diana Esther, Santa Maria Nuova Ospedale dei Fiorentini: Architettura ed assistenza nella Firenze tra Settecento e Novecento in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (vol. 74, no. 2) 2015.