Flora Dennis is Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Sussex. Her research explores the visual and material culture of music and sound, focusing on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. She co-curated the V&A exhibition At Home in Renaissance Italy (2006) and has held fellowships at the Harvard University Centre for Renaissance Studies, Villa i Tatti (Florence), the Italian Academy, Columbia University (New York) and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin).