Notes on Contributors
Antonio Becchi
PhD 1994, studied in Italy, France and Germany and is now working at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science (Berlin). He is a correspondent member of the International Academy of the History of Science and the author or co-editor of several books, most recently Naufragi di terra e di mare: Da Leonardo da Vinci a Theodor Mommsen (2017), Construction History: Survey of a European Building Site (2018), and Leonardo’s Intellectual Cosmos (2021).
Sinclair W. Bell
is the editor of several volumes concerned with the art, architecture, and archaeology of ancient Italy, and previously served as Editor of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.
Paolo Clini
Professore Ordinario in the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile, e Architettura (DICEA) of the Università Politecnico delle Marche (Ancona, Italy), was the first Coordinatore Scientifico of the Centro Internazionale di Studi Vitruviani in Fano, Italy. He is an Accademico of the Accademia Raffaello of Urbino and of the Accademia Marchigiana di Scienze Lettere e Arti, a member of ICOM, the International Council of Museums, and a member of the Italian National Commission on “Digital Technology for Cultural Heritage”.
Paul Davies
is Professor Emeritus of History of Architecture (University of Reading). He is author of Michele Sanmicheli (2004; co-authored with David Hemsoll) and The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: Renaissance and Later Architecture and Ornament (2013; co-authored with David Hemsoll). Author of many articles on Italian Renaissance architecture, especially centralized churches, he is currently writing a book entitled Rotunda: Architecture and the Ideal in Renaissance Italy and collaborating with David Hemsoll on a critical edition of the Codex Coner.
Victor Deupi
is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Miami School of Architecture. His research focuses on the Early Modern Spanish and Ibero-American world, mid- twentieth-century Cuba, and contemporary architecture. His books include Architectural Temperance: Spain and Rome, 1700–1759 (2015), Transformations in Classical Architecture: New Directions in Research and Practice (2018), Cuban Modernism: Mid-Century Architecture 1940–1970, with Jean-Francois Lejeune (2020), and Emilio Sanchez in New York and Latin America (2020).
Giovanni Di Pasquale
(Galileo Museum. Institute and Museum for the History of Science, Florence, Scientific Deputy Director) is an ancient science and technology history research scholar and associate adjunct professor for the History of Science (Texas A&M University in Italy). He is the curator of many international exhibitions, and he is the author of more than 70 publications. His last monograph Le macchine nel mondo antico (2019) was shortlisted for science book of the year in Italy. In 2021 he was shortlisted for the direction of Pompeii Archaeological Park.
Francesco P. di Teodoro
is Full Professor of History of Architecture at the Politecnico di Torino, and former Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare «B. Segre»). He is the editor of the Letter to Leo X by Raphael and Baldassarre Castiglione (1994, 2003, 2020, and 2021). His studies focus on Alberti, Leonardo (Leonardo e l’architettura/Léonard et l’architecure, 2022), on Raphael (he co-curated the exhibition in Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, 2020), on Bramante (with J. Niebau, he edited Donato Bramante «luce & inventor de la buona & vera architectura», 2021), and on Vitruvius.
Francesca Fiorani
is Commonwealth Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia. She lectures and writes on the art, science, and technology of Renaissance Europe. Among her books are The Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy (2005) and The Shadow Drawing: How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint (2020). An expert on advanced technology in the humanities and the arts, she is the author of the digital publication Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting (2012).
Robert Godman
is Reader in Music at the University of Hertfordshire. Working as a composer and sound designer, his theoretical and practice-led research is centered around a study of space and acoustics, manifesting as concert-hall, installation and experimental film works. He is part of an arts/science collaborative team with Simeon Nelson creating large-scale installation works combining sound and light sculpture. He regularly uses spoken narrative in his works, examining the everyday musicality of speech.
Jessica Gritti
holds a PhD in the history of architecture from IUAV in Venice and is currently Assistant Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies. Her research is mostly concerned with the architectural culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy, architectural drawings (especially her contributions to the Corpus of Architectural Drawings of the Cathedral of Milan), Florentine architects and patrons during the Sforza age and the activity of Bramante in Milan.
Daniel Harris-McCoy
received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and currently serves as Associate Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Religions & Ancient Civilizations at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. His research focuses on ancient intellectual history and technical literature. His edition of Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica was published by Oxford University Press in 2012.
Vaughan Hart
is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Bath University. He is the co-translator (with Peter Hicks) of the architectural treatises by Sebastiano Serlio (1996, 2001), as well as the two guidebooks to Rome by Andrea Palladio (2006) and that to Venice by Francesco Sansovino (2017). He is the author of monographs on Nicholas Hawksmoor (2002), John Vanbrugh (2008), and Inigo Jones (2011). His most recent book is Christopher Wren: In Search of Eastern Antiquity (2020).
David Hemsoll
teaches at the University of Birmingham and is an expert in Early Modern architecture. His publications include Michele Sanmicheli (2004; co-authored with Paul Davies) and numerous articles on other Italian Renaissance architects including Giuliano da Sangallo, Raphael and Michelangelo and also architectural theorists such as Serlio and Palladio. His monograph Emulating the Antique: Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo was published in 2019. He is currently cataloguing, with Paul Davies, the celebrated book of sixteenth-century architectural drawings known as the Codex Coner.
Thomas Noble Howe’s
dissertation, The Invention of the Doric Order (Harvard 1985), his commentary and illustrations for Vitruvius: Ten Books on Architecture (trans. I. D. Rowland, 1999) and his writings on the political and artistic roles of the villae maritimae of Stabiae and the Bay of Naples are widely used by scholars in these fields. Since 2002 he has been scientific director/master planner/chief archaeologist of the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation archaeological park and excavation.
Ann C. Huppert
is Associate Professor of Architectural History at the University of Washington, specializing in Early Modern Italy. She has held fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, DC, the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, and Worcester College, Oxford, and is the author of Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy: Art, Science, and the Career of Baldassarre Peruzzi (2015). Her current research projects concern building practices and design communications in sixteenth-century Rome, and the construction history of the Gesù (with Pamela O. Long).
David Karmon
is Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Head of the Architectural Studies program at Holy Cross. Author of Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience (2021) and The Ruin of the Eternal City: Antiquity and Preservation in Renaissance Rome (2011), he is the former Editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
Susan Klaiber
PhD Columbia University, is an architectural historian based in Winterthur, Switzerland, specializing in Italian baroque architecture. Her publications include Guarino Guarini (2006), coedited with Giuseppe Dardanello and the late Henry A. Millon, and Le mostre del Barocco piemontese 1937–1963 (2024), coedited with Sara Abram and Giuseppe Dardanello. Her English translation of Heinrich Brauer and Rudolf Wittkower, Die Zeichnungen des Gianlorenzo Bernini will appear in the forthcoming new edition by Tod A. Marder. (www.susanklaiber.wordpress.com).
Bernd Kulawik
is an independent scholar who studied Physics (Dresden 1986–88), Philosophy, Musicology (Berlin 1990–96; MA about Monteverdi’s Seconda Pratica) and Architectural History (Berlin 1997–2002, PhD on Sangallo’s last project for St Peter’s). He worked in musicological and art historical database projects at research libraries in Berlin, Rome, Berne, Einsiedeln, and Zurich. His research interests include Renaissance music and architecture, archaeology, philosophy, and their histories as well as the limitations of information technology and digital humanities.
Lynne C. Lancaster
was Professor in the Department of Classics and World Religions at Ohio University before serving as Mellon Humanities Professor at the American Academy in Rome (2018–2021). She specializes in Roman construction technology and has written two books on vaulted construction: Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome, Innovations in Context (2005) and Innovative Vaulted Construction in the Architecture of the Roman Empire, 1st–4th Centuries CE (2015). She is currently a research fellow at the University of Cincinnati.
Francesco Marcorin
is Curator at the Palladio Museum in Vicenza. His research focuses on Renaissance architecture in the Veneto, with an interdisciplinary approach across arts, archaeology, history of collecting, and patronage. He earned his PhD at the IUAV University of Venice (2014), and in 2017 he was Ayesha Bulchandani Intern at the Frick Collection in New York and Weinberg Research Fellow in architectural history and preservation at the Italian Academy (Columbia University). In 2018–19 he collaborated with Union College (Schenectady, NY) within the International Program in Florence.
Martin McLaughlin
was Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian at Oxford 2001–2017, and is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He has published widely on Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present, including Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance (1995), Leon Battista Alberti. La vita, l’umanesimo, le opere letterarie (2016) and a co-edited volume, Alberti Lvdens. In Memory of Cecil Grayson (special issues of Albertiana, 2019 and 2020). In 2017 he was awarded the British Academy’s Serena Medal.
Werner Oechslin
was born in Einsiedeln and received a good humanistic education before studying mathematics, history of art, and archaeology in Zurich and Rome (promotion in Zurich 1970). He has taught at MIT, RISD, Harvard, Tongij Shanghai, and elsewhere. He received his Habilitation (1980) in Berlin and was Professor in Bonn. From 1985 to 2010 he taught at Zurich ETH, where he directed the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (1985–2005); he is now Emeritus Professor. He is currently Director of the Bibliothek Werner Oechslin, Einsiedeln (www.bibliothek-oechslin.ch).
Michel Paoli
is a Professor at the University of Picardie-Jules Verne (Amiens). He is a specialist in Alberti and Ariosto, on whom he has organized colloquia (e.g., at the Musée du Louvre). He has published articles on Raphael and Castiglione’s Letter to Leo X and has studied the origin of the concepts of the “Renaissance” and “Gothic.” An article on his research can be found in the recent volume Être historien de l’architecture dans la France des XXe et XXIe siècles.
Alessandro Rovetta
is Professor in Museology, Art Criticism and Restoration at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. He is the editor of the modern edition of Cesare Cesariano’s Vitruvius, of which four volumes are now published. The majority of his studies are dedicated to literary sources for the history of architecture in Renaissance Milan; to the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana founded by Federico Borromeo; and to Lombard artistic historiography between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Ingrid D. Rowland
is based in Rome as Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, and writes on a wide variety of subjects ranging from classical antiquity to contemporary art and architecture.
Wim Verbaal
is Professor at Ghent University (Belgium). His research concerns Medieval Latin in all its poetical aspects with a recent focus on Latin literature as the cosmopolitan literature in the cultural history of Western Europe. He published on Cistercian literature of the twelfth century, on poetics of the eleventh and twelfth century, and on the Vitruvian Middle Ages in Arethusa. A monograph on the poetics of the Loire poets (eleventh century) will shortly appear.
Rabun Taylor
is Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. His scholarly work ranges from Greek and Roman architecture and urbanism to the art, technology, religion, and social history of the Roman period. His books include Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process (2003); Rome: An Urban History (2016, with Katherine Rinne); and Ancient Naples: A Documentary History (2021). He is currently co-editing a volume for the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Technology.