Professional biography Diana Norman joined the art history department at the Open University as a lecturer in 1977; she was appointed senior lecturer in 1995 and professor of art history in 2007.
Research interests She has published three monographs on Sienese art: the first focussing on late medieval art in Siena and its role in propagating a particular image of the city within its subject territories; the second dealing more broadly with the production and reception of Sienese painting in the late medieval and renaissance periods; the third investigating the history of diplomatic relations between the city state of Siena and the Angevin kingdom of Naples and its impact upon fourteenth-century Sienese art. She is also the editor of two volumes of collected essays on fourteenth-century art in Siena, Florence and Padua, to which she contributed a wide range of essays. She has written numerous articles on late medieval and renaissance Italian art, focusing in particular on the patronage of such art and the role of religion in determining its form and meaning.
