Marina Del Negro Karem is a native Venetian. She resides in Louisville, Kentucky, where she teaches Art History at Spalding University. She spends much time in Venice where she continues her research during the Summer. The focus of her dissertation (Ph.D from the University of Louisville, 2000) and, indeed, of her academic career is on the subject of Venetian Art used as political propaganda. Her article “Immagini di Potere: Il Leone Andante nel Battistero di San Marco a Venezia” was published in 2004 in the “Atti dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. She is currently working on the iconography of San Lorenzo Giustiniani in Venice and its connection to a private chapel in Evora, Portugal. Her post-doctoral work in Venice includes participation in a Summer seminar in the Humanities sponsored by the Istituto di Architettura (IUAV) and the Gladys Krieble-Delmas Foundation in 2001 and 2002, and more recently (2006) in the NEH Summer Institute on “Venice, the Jews and Italian Culture.” Currently she is conducting a study on the representation of Jewish figures in Venetian art.