Laura Fenelli, originally from Parma, has a Ph.D in Medieval History from the University of Bologna.
Since 2007 she been living and working as an art historian in Florence. She works on the history of medieval and early modern images and saints’ iconography and hagiography. She has received several national and international fellowships (in Paris, EHESS; Berlin, UdK; London, the Warburg Institute, Bologna, Università degli Studi, Florence, KHI; Niki & Istituto Sangalli) and has published widely (including two books and several articles). Her ongoing research activities include ‘Saints’ Iconography between Middle Ages and Early Modern Times’ and ‘Tracing the devotional topography of the Miraculous Image in Post-Tridentine Europe’. Since 2009 she has taught medieval and modern art history for U.S. college programs in Florence. She has joined Kent State Florence in 2015, where she is the Arts and Sciences program coordinator and she teaches Renaissance Art. Since 2020 she also teaches an online class of Medieval Art for the School of Art of Kent State (OH). Since 2013 she has helped develop high school art history textbooks for Italian publishers like Giunti TPV and Loescher.