Beaven, Lisa
Lisa Beaven is senior lecturer in art history and visual culture at La Trobe University, Australia. She was a post-doctoral research fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are concentrated on seventeenth century Italian art patronage and collecting, digital mapping, religious emotion and the reception of devotional art in early modern Italy. She has contributed to books such as Possessions of a Cardinal. Politics, Piety and Art (2010), The Early Modern Villa (2017), The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe. 1100-1700 (2019) and The Early Modern Companion to Rome (2019). Beaven is author of An Ardent Patron. Cardinal Camillo Massimo and his artistic and antiquarian circle: Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and Diego Velazquez (2010) and editor of Emotion and the Seduction of the Senses, baroque to neo-Baroque (with A. Ndalianis, 2018).