Emma P. Holter is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in the art of Renaissance Italy. Her doctoral dissertation explores drawing, underdrawing, and monochromatic painting practices in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Venice. She is the 2025-2027 Samuel H. Kress Institutional Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London, United Kingdom.  

Recently, Emma was a Graduate Curatorial Intern in the Department of Prints & Drawings at the Princeton University Art Museum. She held a Research Fellowship at Save Venice Inc., where she supported the Women Artists of Venice program, a research initiative recovering the history of female artists and artisans in early modern Venice and the Veneto.

In 2023, Emma co-curated the exhibitions Printmaking | Worldmaking at the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, and The Art of the Book: Treasures from the Special Collections Research Center at Temple’s Charles Library. Her exhibition reviews have appeared in Renaissance Studies, Trois Crayons, and Immediations. She has presented her research at conferences in Austria, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.  

Emma completed her M.A. with High Distinction from The Courtauld Institute of Art. Concurrently, she worked as a Drawing and Print Room Assistant at The Courtauld Gallery. Her M.A. thesis on the draftsmanship of Giovanni Bellini was published in the volume Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers (Paul Holberton Press, 2024).

Prior to pursuing graduate work, Emma was a Curatorial Assistant at The Frick Collection, and a Research Assistant at Sotheby’s, New York. She graduated magna cum laude from New York University with a B.A. in Art History. As an undergraduate, she held internships at The Morgan Library & Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYU Grey Art Museum, and Villa La Pietra at NYU Florence. 

Advisor: Tracy E. Cooper, PhD