Nora S. Lambert

Nora S. Lambert is a former curatorial intern in Applied Arts of Europe. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago, where she specializes in late medieval and early modern Italy. Nora’s dissertation, “Picturing Mobility: Late Medieval and Renaissance Naples at the Threshold of the Mediterranean,” explores the wide circulation and transcontinental nature of Neapolitan commissions and collections. Her essay on Pinturicchio’s depiction of crusading in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral was published by Ashgate Press in 2015. She has held positions at museums including the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and several New York City collections. Nora was recently the Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art, where she curated the 2021 exhibition, Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe.