Christopher Roy Marshall

Biography

Christopher R. Marshall is Professor in Art History and Curatorship at the University of Melbourne. He has a dual specialisation in Italian Baroque art and the art market, and in museums, curatorship and exhibition histories. His publications include Artemisia Gentileschi and the Business of Art (Princeton University Press, 2024); Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting (Yale University Press, 2016); and chapter contributions to The Economic Lives of Seventeenth Century Italian Painters (Yale University Press, 2010) and Mapping Markets in Europe and the New World (Brepols, 2006). His museums and curatorship publications include Sculpture and the Museum (Routledge/Ashgate, 2011) and contributions to Museum Making; Making Art History and Reshaping Museum Space (Routledge: 2005, 2007, 2012).

Christopher Marshall’s research distinctions include two years support from the Australian Research Council, the Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellowship (Centre for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC), a Senior Research Fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, a Research Fellowship at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, and Visiting Senior Lecturing Fellowships at the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Wuhan, and the Department of Art and Art History, Duke University, Durham NC. His curatorial projects include the 2025 co-curated University of Melbourne exhibition, Illuminating Minds: Margaret Manion and the Making of Art History, and an exhibition on the paintings of Artemisia Gentileschi to be held at The Nivaagaard Collection, Copenhagen, in 2028.