Temple University

Emma P. Holter (she/her) is a second-year Ph.D. student and University Fellow at Temple University, where she studies the art of Renaissance Italy with a particular emphasis on Venetian drawings and prints. Her research interests also encompass monochromatic paintings, works of art left unfinished, race and gender in the quattrocento Veneto, and cultural relations between Venice and the Islamic empires in the eastern Mediterranean. 

Emma graduated magna cum laude with departmental honors 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 Gallery, and Villa La Pietra at NYU Florence. Before pursuing graduate work, she was the Curatorial Assistant to the Chief Curator at The Frick Collection and a Research Assistant at Sotheby’s, New York.  

She earned her M.A. in the History of Art with high distinction from The Courtauld Institute of Art in 2022, with a dissertation that focused on the draftsmanship of Giovanni Bellini. Concurrently, she worked as a Drawings and Print Room Assistant at The Courtauld Gallery.  

Her review of the exhibition Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.) recently appeared in the journal Renaissance Studies. In 2023, she co-curated the exhibition Printmaking | Worldmaking at the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College with Dr. Ashley West and fellow students in the Graduate Art History Program. 

M.A., History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2022 

B.A., Art History, New York University, 2017 

Primary Advisor: Tracy E. Cooper, PhD