Bass is working on a new monograph about Erasmus and the visual arts in the sixteenth century, as well as articles on Bruegel’s representations of corporeal punishment, ‘accoutrementality’ in the work of Dutch women artists, Constantijn Huygens' tandem interest in urban infrastructure and malacology, and the colonial politics of illusionistic painting in the seventeenth-century English interior. As a side project, she is working on a history of birds in art, ranging from featherwork to scientific illustration. With Freyda Spira, she is also co-curating an exhibition on Albrecht Dürer and the book that will open at the Yale University Art Gallery in the fall of 2028.

Her recent lecture as the 2025 Panofsky Professor at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich will be published as a monograph in both English and German.

Books in Progress

	Holbein's Margins: Printing Alliances in Renaissance Basel
	Erasmus and the Art of the Renaissance
	Flights: A History of Birds in Art

Forthcoming Articles

	“The Death of the Funerary Monument in the Dutch Republic,” in Rulers on Display: Tombs and Epitaphs of Princes and the Well-Born in Northern Europe, 1470–1670, eds. Ethan Matt Kavaler and Birgit Ulrike Münch (Turnhout: Brepols, 2025).
	“The Countermonument in Early Modern Antwerp” Word & Image, 2025.