Diana Mellon

Diana studies medieval and Renaissance Italian art, with a particular focus on the body, health and landscape. She earned her B.A. (2009) from Yale University and her M.A. (2015) and M.Phil. (2016) from Columbia University. Diana has held internships and fellowships at the Frick Collection, the National Gallery of Art, the Yale Center for British Art, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and the American Academy in Rome. She conducted research for her dissertation on the visual culture of therapeutic bathing as a 2019–2020 resident at La Capraia Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, Italy. As a 2020–2021 Teaching Scholar in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Diana designed and taught a seminar on medieval and Renaissance maps of the Mediterranean.