Rachel Healy
Title
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution
Trinity College Dublin
Current Research
The Cornaro family; Titian's early portraiture; Titian's unidentified sitters
Recent Publications
• 'Three Men and an Abbey: The Cornaro Triple Portrait’, Renaissance Studies: Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2026, 97-120. https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12989
• ‘Giorgio Cornaro and the Cloth of Gold’, Source: Notes in the History of Art, Fall 2025, Vol. 45, No.1 (6-16). https://doi.org/10.1086/738123
• ‘Portraits of Power: Myth and Truth in the Cornaro Family Tree’, Studi Veneziani, Ns LXXXVIII - Ns XC, 2024 (169-204). https://doi.org/10.19272/202403102008
• 'Portrait of two Venetian Gentlemen: A Question of Identity', Artefact: Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians, Issue 8, 2016, pp. 35-43.
• ‘Giorgio Cornaro and the Cloth of Gold’, Source: Notes in the History of Art, Fall 2025, Vol. 45, No.1 (6-16). https://doi.org/10.1086/738123
• ‘Portraits of Power: Myth and Truth in the Cornaro Family Tree’, Studi Veneziani, Ns LXXXVIII - Ns XC, 2024 (169-204). https://doi.org/10.19272/202403102008
• 'Portrait of two Venetian Gentlemen: A Question of Identity', Artefact: Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians, Issue 8, 2016, pp. 35-43.
Forthcoming Publications
• ‘Cardinal Marco Cornaro and Raphael's Head of a Cardinal’ in Source: Notes in the History of Art, 2026.
• ‘Embracing Age: Longevity, Self-Fashioning, and the Representation of Old Age in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Portraiture’ in Longevità e gerontocrazia a Venezia (secoli XIII-XVIII), Marsilio, Autumn, 2026.
• ‘Titian’s Man with a Falcon: from Zorzone to Girolamo’ in Renaissance Studies, 2026.
• Monograph: Art Patronage and the Cornaro Family in Renaissance Venice: Wealth, Power and Dynastic Strategy, Routledge, 2027.