Marisa Bass

Marisa Bass is a scholar of early modern art whose research explores the intersections between creative and intellectual culture in northern Europe. Her interests include the representation of nature, the cult of images, portraiture, Renaissance notions of imagination and invention, print culture, genre painting, emblematics, antiquarianism, monuments, and miniatures. Her work has been supported by membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and most recently, by the inaugural Guggenheim Fellowship in Early Modern Studies. She joined the Yale faculty in 2016.