Laura Stefanescu

Bio

Laura Stefanescu is an art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance art and particularly fifteenth-century Florence, interested in the interplay between art, theater, music, and religious experience. She has received her PhD from the University of Sheffield (2020), where she has subsequently worked as Research Associate on Prof. Tim Shephard’s project "Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a Year of Italian Printed Books", funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Her publications include the co-authored article “Music, Silence, and the Senses in a Late Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours,” in Renaissance Studies (2017) and the co-authored book Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy c. 1420-1540 (Harvey Miller, 2020). Laura was the 2023-2024 Francesco de Dombrowski Fellow at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence and is currently Teaching Assistant at the Breyer Center for Overseas Studies in Florence, Stanford University.