PhD in Art History
Emma P. Holter
- Email: emma.p.holter@temple.edu
Emma P. Holter is a Ph.D. candidate and University Fellow specializing in the art of Renaissance Italy. Her dissertation topic explores drawing and underdrawing practices, and the production of monochromatic paintings in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Venice. She is a Research Fellow at Save Venice supporting the Women Artists of Venice program, a research initiative recovering the history of female artists and artisans in early modern Venice and the Veneto.
Emma completed her M.A. with high distinction from The Courtauld Institute of Art. Concurrently, she worked as a Drawings and Print Room Assistant at The Courtauld Gallery. Her M.A. thesis research on the draftsmanship of Giovanni Bellini was recently 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 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 Museum, and Villa La Pietra at NYU Florence.
She has presented her doctoral research at conferences in Austria, Canada, France, and the United States. Her conference presentations have been supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Temple University’s Graduate School, The Marcia Hall Research Award, and Tyler School of Art Dean’s Grant for Conference Travel. In 2023, she 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 University’s Charles Library. Her exhibition reviews have appeared in Renaissance Studies, Trois Crayons, and Save Venice’s annual newsletter.
M.A., History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2022
B.A., Art History, New York University, 2017
Dissertation Title: Refuting the Disegno-Colore Paradigm: Underdrawing and Monochrome Painting in Renaissance Venice
Primary Advisor: Tracy E. Cooper, PhD