Research output per year
Research output per year
Cordelia studied Fine Art at Newcastle University (1985-1987) and History of Art at Nottingham University (1987-1989). She completed her Ph.D. on 'Female Patronage and Female Spirituality in Italian Art of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries' in 1994 (University of Warwick ).
Before coming to Manchester, Cordelia taught at Queen's University Belfast (1999-2003) and the University of Aberdeen (1995-1996). She has also taught for the Open University (1995) and for the American University of Rome (1998). She has held research awards from the Leverhulme Trust (1996-1998 and 2002-2003), the British School at Rome (1991, 1997-1998, 2011), the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation (1993), and St. John's College, Oxford (2003).
Cordelia is currently (September 2017 onwards) Deputy Editor of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/journals/bjrl/). She has also served on the committee of the Ecclesiastical History Society, the Editorial Committee of Manchester University Press from 2012-2015 and was Reviews Editor of the journal Art History from 2007-2011.
Cordelia Warr works on Italian art of the middle ages and renaissance. Her interests include: clothing, its representation, and its problematic relationship with the spiritual realm; and the visual culture of stigmata.
Cordelia has published on patronage issues, particularly women as patrons. She has also published widely on questions surrounding the symbolic meaning of dress and the representation of religious dress. In 2010, she published Dressing for Heaven: Physical and Spiritual Dress in Italian Art 1215-1545 , which investigates clothes as liminal objects, drawing on areas such as material culture, Renaissance models of consumption and devotion, and gender studies. Her current project is on The Visual Culture of Stigmata in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy. This forms part of a larger interest in wounds. Cordelia co-edited, with Dr Anne Kirkham, Wounds in the Middle Ages (Ashgate, 2014); and co-curated an exhibition with Dr Sian Bonnell (Manchester Metropolitan University) on 'Imagining Medicine' (The John Rylands Library, 14 October - 22 December 2016). She is currently working on a project with Professor Anne Dunlop (University of Melbourne) on 'Foreign Bodies' (http://connectingcollections-manmel.com/) part of an initiative which will highlight research on early modern collections in Manchester and Melbourne.
Conference papers include: 'Noses and skin flaps: Gaspare Tagliacozzi’s De Curtorum Chirurgia (1597)’ (Medical Artists Association, Manchester 2016; ‘Proving Stigmata: Antonio Daza, Saint Francis of Assisi, and Juana de la Cruz’ (Ecclesiastical History Society, Sheffield 2014); ‘Pierfrancesco Fiorentino’s Altarpiece (1494) of the Virgin and Child in San Gimignano and Dominican definitions of stigmata’ (Institut d’Études Avancées de Paris, Paris 2012), and 'Touching the habit: Sight and touch in the presentation of the habit of Saint Francis' (The Senses and the Experience of God in Art in the Franciscan Tradition, Saint Bonaventure University, 2017).
I am interested in supervising work on late medieval and renaissance Italian art, particularly topics relating to wounds and surgery, sanctity, patronage and dress and would welcome enquiries from anyone wishing to do research in this area.
Completed PhD students:
Anna Piperato
Supervisors: Adrian Armstrong, Cordelia Warr
University of Manchester. School of Arts, Histories and Cultures.
2009
Deborah Anne Kirkham
Supervisor: Cordelia Warr
University of Manchester. School of Arts, Histories and Cultures.
2007
External Examiner, History of Art (MLitt Art History: The Renaissance in Northern Europe; MLitt Art History: Dress and Textile Histories), University of Glasgow
1 Sept 2016 → 31 Aug 2019
External Examiner, History of Art (UG MA Art History; MLitt Art and Business), University of Aberdeen
1 Sept 2015 → 30 Sept 2018
External Examiner, History of Art (BA Art History), The University of Reading
1 Sept 2011 → 31 Aug 2015
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Warr, Cordelia (Recipient), 2003
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Cordelia Warr (Discussant)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
Warr, C. (Chair)
Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Organising a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc › Research
Cordelia Warr (Discussant)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Warr, C. (Chair)
Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Organising a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc › Research
Cordelia Warr (Assistant editor)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work › Research