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Supervisors:

Dr Giorgio Tagliaferro and Dr Marta Ajmar

Contact:

natasha.burbridge@warwick.ac.uk

Research:

My AHRC-M4C funded research project offers the first sustained study of the Tuscan artist Pastorino Pastorini (c.1508-1592), best known as the most prolific portrait medallist of sixteenth-century Italy.

Research interests:

• Renaissance portrait medals
• Sculptural materials and techniques
• Ceramics, glass and enamels
• Court artists and artisans, especially in northern Italy
• Artisanal knowledge
• Art and diplomacy
• Patronage and collections

Publications:

'The transmedial adaptation of medals and plaquettes. Emilian and northern European sources for a sixteenth-century Dresden parade shield', The Medal 87 (2025), pp. 4-19.

'The King's cabinet', British Museum Magazine 112 (2025), pp. 38-39.

Curatorial experience:

Fellowships:

2024: Eva Schler Fellow, The Medici Archive Project, Florence.

Selected conferences and presentations:

'Material Literacy and Sixteenth-Century Medals', Material Literacy in the Age of the Global Turn, Global History and Culture Centre, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½. 20 June 2025.

'The Emilian medals beyond Reggio', Renaissance Society of America, Boston, USA. 20 March 2025.

'Pastorino Pastorini (c.1508-1592) and the material significance of wax and stucco in his medal making process', Fédération Internationale de la Médaille d'Art XXXVII congress, Florence, Italy. 13 October 2023.

'Breaking (and Making) the Rules: A Re-Assessment of Pastorino da Siena’s Medallic Portraits’, Global Making: People, Materials, Environments, joint event between ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ and Università Ca Foscari Venezia. 20 June 2023.

'Recasting the Renaissance Medal: Pastorino de’ Pastorini’s Medallic Portraits’, British Art Medal Society Annual Conference, London. 22 April 2023.

Academic background:

MA in Medieval and Renaissance History (Distinction), Queen Mary University of London