PhD Candidate Karin Flora traveled this June to London, Paris, and several cities in Italy with Ohio State's Pyne and Murnane Research Grant. This trip funded her art historical dissertation work focusing on material aspects of Renaissance grisaille paintings. She greatly appreciated the opportunity to see and analyze key artworks for her research, including Mantegna’s grisailles in London's National Gallery, The Introduction of the Cult of Cybele in Rome, Samson and Delilah and others. She was fortunate to catch the National Gallery's exhibition on Raphael and see Raphael's grisaille cover-piece Abondance in the Louvre. She was also able to visit Mantuan palaces and research patron documents in the Mantuan State archives. Some other highlights of her trip included viewing Clement VII's Rock Crystal Crucifix at the Vatican on which she has presented, as well as viewing Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel, the San Marco museum and an exhibition on Donatello's sculptures in Florence. This trip presented Karin with the opportunity to see many key Renaissance art works and historical sites on which she will continue to teach, research, and write about in their broader historical context.