Professor Christopher Marshall serves as Professor of Art History and Head of Art History/Art Curatorship in the School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. He specializes in Italian Baroque art alongside art curatorship and museum studies. His research examines the production and business of painting in seventeenth-century Naples, the career strategies of artists like Artemisia Gentileschi, and contemporary museum practices including exhibition histories and cultural display. Marshall's major publications include the monograph Artemisia Gentileschi and the Business of Art (Princeton University Press, 2024), which presents a new account of the Italian Baroque painter's life, work, commercial practices, and enduring legacy. He is also the author of Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench (Yale University Press, 2016), detailing the workshop dynamics, markets, and industry surrounding Neapolitan painting. Additional key works encompass Sculpture and the Museum, contributions to The Legacies of Bernard Smith: Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics, and articles such as Make the Stones Shout: Contemporary Museums and the Challenge of Culture (2011).

Marshall has produced scholarly reviews and essays on topics including the Caravaggio exhibition Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and his World (2004), Michelangelo's David as an icon of physical perfection (2019), displaying devotion from altar to app in modern museums, and the role of the Louvre Abu Dhabi as a global cultural envoy. His curatorial contributions feature co-curating the University of Melbourne exhibition Illuminating Minds: Margaret Manion and the Illuminated Book (2025) at the Potter Museum of Art. Career highlights include progression from Senior Lecturer to Professor at the University of Melbourne, a Henry Moore Foundation Research Fellowship in 2005 for sculpture in the museum, and research distinctions with two years of dedicated support. In 2025, he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, recognizing his impact on art history, curatorship, and museology through prolific scholarship and interdisciplinary projects like Art Market Studies.

Professional Email: crmars@unimelb.edu.au