Dr Louisa McKenzie

Contact details

Name:
Dr Louisa McKenzie
Qualifications:
PhD History of Art; MA Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture; MA History of Art; BA (Hons) Theology
Position:
Associate Fellow
Institute:
Warburg Institute
Email address:
l.mckenzie@sas.ac.uk
Website:
https://louisamckenziearthistory.com
Studies:
Staff

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date Details
03-Mar-2025 Why we love pearls and the best ones to buy now | The Times (online)

Articles

27-Feb-2025 The £2m rare document found inside an £80 library book | The Times (online)

Articles

27-Feb-2025 See inside the Rothschilds’ secret treasure trove | The Times (online)

Articles

20-Feb-2025 Hello dollface: the ‘glass skin’ trend that’s everywhere | The Times (online)

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14-Feb-2025 Sign here please — the celebrity autographs worth millions | The Times (online)

05-Feb-2025 Why was drawing so important in the Renaissance? | Art UK

Articles

31-Jan-2025 Own some of Iris Apfel's eyewear for How to Spend it in February | The Financial Times (online)

Articles

29-Jan-2025 The Parisian school where they teach stealth wealth | The Times (online)

Articles

23-Jan-2025 Snake-themed gifts for the lunar new year - The Times (online)

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13-Jan-2025 Pimple patches— the 17th century beauty craze resurrected by Gen-Z - The Times (online)

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09-Jan-2025 The clockmaker superstars who redefined time - The Times (online)

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31-Dec-2024 A very alternative guide to New Year’s resolutions - The Times (online)

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21-Dec-2024 Seeing is Believing - Apollo Magazine, January 2025, pp. 54-59

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12-Dec-2024 The Insta shop where celebrities buy the best vintage couture - The Times (online)

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05-Dec-2024 The £4,000 designer teddy bear (and his fancy pals) - The Times (online)

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02-Dec-2024 The art of keeping secrets: six works with hidden mysteries - The Times (online)

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28-Nov-2024 The £1,000 Christmas crackers - The Times (online)

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21-Nov-2024 The chicest Christmas cards to send this year - The Times (online)

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13-Nov-2024 How posh is your wallpaper? - The Times (online)

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22-Oct-2024 The artworks made from gold, diamond dust and amber - The Times (online)

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18-Oct-2024 Lost in London? How about a £75k Tube map - The Times (online)

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16-Oct-2024 How to tablescape like Catherine de’ Medici - The Times (online)

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02-Oct-2024 New-gen needleworkers - The Times (online)

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10-Sep-2024 Divine inspiration: who were the nine Muses of Greek mythology? - ArtUK

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09-Sep-2024 The fashion set’s favourite tarot card reader — at £1,500 a session - The Times (online)

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29-Aug-2024 The chic apothecary guide - The Times (online)

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07-Aug-2024 Florence's must-visit artisans - The Times (online)

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07-Aug-2024 Stitches in time – how a Jacobean doublet pads out our sense of the past Stitches in time – how a Jacobean doublet pads out our sense of the past - Apollo Magazine (online)

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26-Jun-2024 Lutes and Gold Silk — Inside Anne Boleyn’s Sumptuous Apartment - The Times (online)

Articles

17-Jun-2024 Stars in their Eyes — Celebrity Astrologers Past and Present - The Times (online)

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22-May-2024 How the TikTok Star Chloë Collin is Transforming Auctioneering - The Times (online)

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17-May-2024 The Rise of the Super-Garden - The Times (online)

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11-May-2024 Inside the Wild World of the Art Detective - The Times Luxx Magazine,

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28-Mar-2024 The Doll’s House with its Own Set of Crown Jewels - The Times (online)

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14-Mar-2024 The Antique Gems More Valuable than a Botticelli - The Times (online)

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29-Feb-2024 The World’s Earliest Printed Map is On Sale — for £5m - The Times (online)

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29-Feb-2024 Votive offerings: saints, shrines and divine intervention - Art UK

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14-Feb-2024 Is Gold a Beauty Wonder Product or Deadly Poison? - The Times (online)

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08-Feb-2024 The Crazy World of the Million-Pound Stamp Collectors

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25-Jan-2024 Inside the Wild — and Lucrative — World of Antique Coin Collecting - The Times (online)

Articles

01-Jan-2024 A History of New Year’s Resolutions - The Times (online)

Articles

15-Nov-2023 The History of Joséphine Bonaparte's Style - The Times (online)

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02-Nov-2023 Ground Control to Miuccia Prada - The Times (online)

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05-Oct-2023 The Secret History of Slim Aarons - The Times (online)

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19-Sep-2023 Why a 15th-century Gown is So This Season - The Time (online)

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07-Sep-2023 Say Bye-Bye to your Biro - The Times (online)

Articles

10-Aug-2023 Brigid Berlin: Artist, Socialite and Pioneer of the Selfie - The Times (online)

Articles

08-Aug-2023 An Appreciation of Bees - Wellcome Collection Stories

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26-Jul-2023 The Beauty Secrets of Renaissance Ladies - The Times (online)

Articles

27-Jun-2023 Bookmaking for Bibliophiles and Billionaires - The Times (online)

Articles

11-May-2023 A Skull and the Renaissance - The Tablet, online

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27-Apr-2023 ‘Waxing Miracles’, Apollo, May 2023, pp. 82-89.

Articles

25-Apr-2023 Andy Warhol's Textiles are Finally Back in Fashion - Apollo online, exhibition review

Review

21-Feb-2023 Stones for Healing - Wellcome Collection Stories

Articles

01-Mar-2022 Votive Offerings for Healing - Wellcome Collection Stories

Articles

15-Jun-2015 The Ghost of Sarah Siddons. In: Marylebone Lives: Rogues, Romantics and Rebels, ed. M. Riddaway and C. Upsall (London: Spiramus, 2015), pp. 54-56.

Chapters

15-Jun-2015 The Lonely Demise of Benedict Arnold. In: Marylebone Lives: Rogues, Romantics and Rebels, ed. M. Riddaway and C. Upsall (London: Spiramus, 2015), pp. 17-20.

Chapters

Additional Publications

Research Projects & Supervisions
Research interests:
Cultural memory, Digital resources, Gender studies, History, History of art, Manuscript studies, Medieval History, Palaeography

Regions:
Europe
Relevant Events

Related events:

Date Details
04-Jun-2025 Painting Icons: A History of the Portrait from Byzantium to Basquiat

Short course convenor. 

13-Feb-2025 Digital Humanities at the Warburg: current research and future directions

Invited speaker. 

20-Sep-2023 ‘Mapping Wax: locations, contexts and networks of wax workshops in quattrocento Florence’ – Artists’ Workshop Practice in the Renaissance, Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell’ Arte, Florence

08-Jun-2023 Between Technology and Theory: Data and Distance - workshop

Co-organiser and panel moderator for this workshop dedicated to the digital humanities. 

06-Jun-2023 Mapping and Data Visualisation for Beginners

Leading this research training seminar for students, ECRs and others, alongside a colleague.   

01-Dec-2022 ‘Waxing on: new approaches to wax as a votive material in Renaissance Florence’ –Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference Virtual

27-Jun-2022 ‘Making yourself in wax: the metamorphic potential of the wax ex-voto’ – Transformative Bodies in the Premodern World: Experiences and Materials, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

09-Jun-2022 Between Technology and Theory: Digital Humanities Projects in Progress - workshop

Co-organiser and panel moderator for this workshop dedicated to the digital humanities. 

07-Jun-2022 Mapping and Data Visualisation for Beginners

Leading this research training seminar for students, ECRs and others, alongside a colleague. 

 

 

04-May-2022 ‘The life cycle of a wax ex-voto in late medieval and Renaissance Florence’ – Work in Progress seminar, the Warburg Institute

29-Nov-2021 ‘Schism, obedience and genealogy in Neri di Bicci’s San Giovanni Gualberto Enthroned’ – Neue Tendenzen der Italienforschung zu Mittelalter und Renaissance conference, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome/online

12-Nov-2021 ‘Legislating materiality: wax in Florentine guild statutes 1300-1500’ – 4th Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval: (In)Materiality in Medieval Art, Complutense University of Madrid (online)

13-Apr-2021 ‘Mapping production: wax workshops in Renaissance Florence’ – Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference Virtual

13-Mar-2021 ‘What is my research trajectory’ – ReSkIN (Research Skills Intercollegiate Network) Spring Event, University College London (online)

A Material World lecture and seminar series

Co-founder and co-convenor, 2020-present. 

 

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