Professor Courtright's publications span a range of areas within early modern Europe, including the art and architecture of the Vatican Palace, the subject of her 2003 book, The Papacy and the Art of Reform in Sixteenth-Century Rome: Gregory XIII and the Tower of the Winds in the Vatican; Bernini sculpture; Louis XIV’s bedroom in Versailles; and Rembrandt drawings. Most recently her research focuses on the construction of authority for French queens in the art, architecture and gardens of royal domiciles of the 16th and 17th centuries, the basis of a forthcoming book on Marie de Médicis’ residences. She is past president of the College Art Association and recent editor-in-chief of Grove Art Online, and is currently vice chair of the American Council of Learned Societies.