Notes on the Contributors
Barbara Arciszewska
director of the Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw, is a graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London) and the University of Toronto. She has been a post-graduate fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, a research fellow at the Yale Center for British Art, and a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. Her work focuses on the theory and practice of early modern architecture in Europe. Among her recent publications are Classicism and Modernity: Architectural Thought in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2011), and two edited volumes on the early modern villa/villeggiatura: The Baroque Villa (2009) and Early Modern Villa: Senses and Perceptions versus Materiality (2017).
Bianca de Divitiis
is associate professor in art history at the University of Naples Federico II. She earned a PhD in the history of architecture at the School of Advanced Studies in Venice and post-doctoral fellowships from the IUAV University in Venice, The Warburg Institute, Villa I Tatti – Harvard Center for the Studies in Italian Renaissance Studies, The Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Architecture, and the Francis Haskell Memorial Fund. She has been principal investigator of the ERC project HistAntArtSI (2011–2016). She has published extensively on eighteenth – and nineteenth-century British architecture and art, and patronage and antiquarian culture in the kingdom of Naples, and she is now preparing a book titled Il Rinascimento e il Regno.
Hubertus Günther
has been director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut of the University of Düsseldorf, professor of art history and film studies at the University of Frankfurt a.M., and professor of art history at the University of Zurich. As emeritus professor he teaches at the University of Munich. His main research interests are architecture and the study of antiquity in the Renaissance. He is especially interested in the question of how the much-vaunted revival of antiquity worked out, and in which ways the ancient monuments were actually studied; recently he has been examining the expression of national styles in Renaissance art and architecture. He is the author of, among other works, Das Studium der antiken Architektur in den Zeichnungen der Hochrenaissance (1988), Die Renaissance der Antike (1998), and Was ist Renaissance?: eine Charakteristik der Architektur zu Beginn der Neuzeit (2009). The majority of his writings are digitally available via the Autorenkatalog der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg (HEIDI).
Thomas Haye
earned his PhD in 1993 and was Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin literature at the University of Kiel (1996–2002). Since 2002 he has been Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin literature at the University of Göttingen. He has published several critical editions and monographs on Latin texts. His most recent book-length publications include Verlorenes Mittelalter. Ursachen und Muster der Nichtüberlieferung mittellateinischer Literatur (Leiden – Boston 2016) and Der Laberintus des Edmund Bramfield. Eine Satire auf die römische Kurie (Stuttgart 2017).
Harald Hendrix
is director of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome and is professor of Italian Studies at Utrecht University. With a combined background in cultural history, comparative literature, and Italian studies, he has published widely on the European reception of Italian Renaissance and Baroque culture, on the early modern aesthetics of the non-beautiful, and on literary culture and memory. He is currently preparing a book on the cultural history of writers’ houses in Italy, from Petrarch to the present day. He is the author of Traiano Boccalini fra erudizione e polemica (1995) and Writers’ Houses and the Making of Memory (2008); he co-edited and co-authored Autorità, modelli e antimodelli nella cultura artistica e letteraria fra Riforma e Controriforma (2007), Officine del nuovo (2008), Dynamic Translations in the European Renaissance (2011), The Turn of the Soul: Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Art and Literature (2011), The History of Futurism: The Precursors, Protagonists, and Legacies (2012), and Cyprus and the Renaissance, 1450–1650 (2013).
Stephan Hoppe
is professor of art history at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität of Munich. His main fields of interest are early modern architecture and central European court culture. He is currently working on representations of architecture, such as drawings, maps, scale models, etc., and on the interaction between architecture and the pictorial arts in the early modern period. Since 2015 he has directed the research project “Corpus der barocken Deckenmalerei in Deutschland” at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. He is the chief editor of the interdisciplinary journal Burgen und Schlösser and is a board member of “Architectura Moderna (ARCHMOD). Architectural Exchanges in Europe, 16th–17th Centuries”. He is the author of Was ist Barock? Architektur und Städtebau Europas 1580–1770 (2003), and he is co-editor of Stil als Bedeutung in der nordalpinen Renaissance. Wiederentdeckung einer methodischen Nachbarschaft (2008); Geschichte der bildenden Kunst in Deutschland, vol. 5: Barock und Rokoko (2008); and Virtual Palaces, part 2: Lost Palaces and Their Afterlife: Virtual Reconstruction between Science and Media (2016).
Marc Laureys
is professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin philology as well as founding director of the Centre for the Classical Tradition at the University of Bonn. His main areas of scholarly interest are early modern historiography and antiquarianism, particularly in Italy and the Low Countries, polemical discourse in Renaissance humanism, and the reception of classical authors in Neo-Latin literature. He is editor-in-chief of the Neulateinisches Jahrbuch and the Noctes Neolatinae. His latest edited volumes are Forms of Conflict and Rivalries in Renaissance Europe, along with David Lines and Jill Kraye (2015); Polemik im Dialog des Renaissance-Humanismus. Formen, Entwicklungen und Funktionen, along with Uwe Baumann and Arnold Becker (2015); and A New Sense of the Past: The Scholarship of Biondo Flavio (1392–1463), along with Angelo Mazzocco (2016).
Frédérique Lemerle
is an architectural historian and the research director of the Centre de recherches supérieures de la Renaissance at Tours (France). She publishes on, among other topics, the study of Gallo-Roman remains during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in France and their impact on Renaissance architecture, the reception of Vitruvius, and the theory of architecture. She is the author of La Renaissance et les antiquités de la Gaule. L’architecture gallo-romaine vue par les architectes, antiquaires et voyaeurs des guerres d’Italie à la Fronde (2005), Les Annotations de Guillaume Philandrier sur le De architectura de Vitruve (2000 and 2011), and, together with Yves Pauwels, L’Architecture à la Renaissance (2008). Together with Yves Pauwels she is responsible for Architectura, the database of books on architecture manuscripts and prints published in France, written in French or translated into French during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr).
Coen Maas
studied classical languages at Leiden University. He specialized in Neo-Latin; in 2012 he earned his PhD at the same university with his thesis The Lure of the Dark Ages: Writing the Middle Ages and Political Rhetoric in Humanist Historiography from the Low Countries, which appeared this year at Brepols (in the series Proteus: Studies in Early Modern Identiy Formation). Currently, he works in the field of tax law. After four years of practice as a tax advisor at PwC, he is now a law clerk at the Supreme Court (De Hoge Raad) of the Netherlands as well as an assistant professor in the department of tax law at Leiden University. Recently, he was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, carrying out a research project about the interaction between public debates about corporate tax avoidance and lawsuits in the United States and the Netherlands.
Anne-Françoise Morel
is an art historian and holds an MA in international politics. She is a specialist in the history of church architecture in England and in early modern diplomacy. Since 2015 she has been an assistant professor at the faculty of architecture of the Catholic University of Leuven, where she teaches on the history of architecture and conducts research on the cultural transfers between architecture, religion, and politics in the early modern and modern periods. Her contribution in this volume is based on her PhD thesis, Glorious Temples or Babylonic Whores: The Architecture of Church Buildings in England 1603–1736 according to Consecration Sermons (Ghent University, 2011).
Kristoffer Neville
is associate professor of art history at the University of California, Riverside. He focuses on northern European art and culture ca. 1550–1720. He has published the books Nicodemus Tessin the Elder: Architecture in Sweden in the Age of Greatness (2009) and Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts: Court Culture in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe (co-edited with Lisa Skogh; 2017). A book on the cultural significance of the Danish and Swedish courts ca. 1550–1720 is forthcoming from Pennsylvania State University Press.
Yves Pauwels
is professor in the history of art and architecture at the Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance and at the University of Tours. He is a member of the Academy of Europe and and has been a member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2008–2013). He authored numerous articles on Renaissance architecture. Among his book-length publications are L’architecture au temps de la Pléiade (2002), Aux marges de la règle. Essai sur les ordres d’architecture à la Renaissance (2008), and L’architecture et le livre en France à la Renaissance: une “magnifique décadence”? (2013). Together with Frédérique Lemerle he wrote L’architecture à la Renaissance (1998), Baroque Architecture (2008), and Architectures de papier. La France et l’Europe, suivi d’une bibliographie des livres d’architecture (XVIe–XVIIe siècles) (2013). Together with Frédérique Lemerle he is responsible for Architectura, the database of books on architecture manuscripts and prints published in France, written in French or translated into French during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr).
Christian Peters
received his MEd in Latin and history from the University of Münster in 2010 and has been a research associate with the Seminar für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit and the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the University of Münster (2010–2017). His PhD thesis Mythologie und Politik. Die panegyrische Funktionalisierung der paganen Götter im lateinischen Epos des 15. Jahrhunderts was published in 2016. Currently, he is working as a schoolteacher in Latin and history, and is preparing a post-doc monograph on mirrors of princes in Jesuit emblematics. He has published on the reception and transformation of classical mythology in Neo-Latin literature, Neo-Latin epic poetry, political and ideological functions of literature, and Jesuit emblematics.
Christoph Pieper
is a university lecturer of Latin at Leiden University. His research focuses on Cicero and the Ciceronian tradition, Ovid, and elegiac poetry of the Italian Quattrocento. He has published a monograph on Landino’s elegiac poetry (Elegos redolere Vergiliosque sapere, 2008) and is the (co-)editor of several volumes on the value of the past in classical antiquity (with James Ker), competition in classical antiquity (with Cynthia Damon), Neo-Latin literature and political ideology in the early modern period (Discourses of Power, with Karl Enenkel and Marc Laureys, 2012), Boccaccio’s Latin works (with Karl Enenkel and Tobias Leuker, 2015), and rhetorical pathos (with Jaap de Jong and Adriaan Rademaker). Since 2016 he has been the executive editor of Mnemosyne. Currently, he directs the research project “Mediated Cicero” (on the reception of Cicero in antiquity and beyond), funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.
David Rijser
is university lecturer of classics and cultural history at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Raphael’s Poetics: Art and Poetry in High Renaissance Rome (2012), Een telkens nieuwe oudheid. Of: hoe Tiberius in New Jersey belandde (on the reception of classical literature, 2016), and Het portiek van de buren (2018). He is the organizer and editor of the Amsterdam Vergil Lectures, of which the first volume appeared in 2011 (M.C.J. Putnam, The Humanness of Heroes). He has edited volumes together with Karl Enenkel and Suzanna de Beer on The Neo-Latin Epigram, with Bert Treffers on art and the individual artist, and with Maarten DePourcq and Nathalie de Haan on the reception of classical antiquity.
Bernd Roling
is professor of classical and medieval Latin in the Department of Greek and Latin Philology of the Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests include high medieval and early modern Latin poetry; medieval and early modern philosophy, especially the philosophy of language; the history of early modern science; university history, with a special focus on Scandinavia; and early modern esoteric traditions. Recent monographs are Aristotelische Naturphilosophie und christliche Kabbalah und im Werk des Paulus Ritius (2007); Locutio angelica. Die Diskussion der Engelsprache als Antizipation einer Sprechakttheorie in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (2008); Drachen und Sirenen: Die Aufarbeitung und Abwicklung der Mythologie an den europäischen Universitäten (2010); and Physica Sacra: Wunder, Naturwissenschaft und historischer Schriftsinn zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (2013). Together with I. Ventura and B. van den Abeele he published a critical edition of Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, vol. 1 (2007). He is currently preparing a book on the Swedish polymath Olaus Rudbeck and his reception in eighteenth-century Northern Europe.
Nuno Senos
completed his PhD at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Currently he is professor of early modern art and architecture at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His research and teaching interests span the architecture of early modern Portugal and its overseas possessions as well as the impact of empire on art consumption in Portugal in the sixteenth century. He has published on the royal palace of Lisbon, the monastery of Batalha, and Franciscan architecture in Brazil. His most recent book is about the ducal palace of Vila Viçosa. He is currently working on a book about Renaissance architecture in Portugal.
Paul J. Smith
is professor of French literature at Leiden University. He has widely published on sixteenth-, seventeenth, and twentieth-century French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, French and Dutch fable and emblem books, literary rhetoric, intermediality, and early modern zoology. His main book publications include Voyage et écriture. Etude sur le Quart Livre de Rabelais (1987), Het schouwtoneel der dieren. Embleemfabels in de Nederlanden (1567–ca. 1670) (2006), Dispositio. Problematic Ordering in French Renaissance Literature (2007), and Réécrire la Renaissance, de Marcel Proust à Michel Tournier […] (2009). He edited Editer et traduire Rabelais à travers les âges (1997) and Translating Montaigne (2011), and co-edited, among other works, Montaigne and the Low Countries (1580–1700) (2007), Early Modern Zoology. The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts (2007), and Emblems and the Natural World (2017). He is a member of the editorial boards of “Intersections”, “Neophilologus”, “Montaigne Studies”, and “Renaissance and Reformation”.
Pieter Vlaardingerbroek
works as an architectural historian for the city of Amsterdam and as an assistant professor at Utrecht University. After his PhD on Amsterdam’s town hall (Het Paleis van de Republiek, appeared in 2011) he has conducted studies on the Portuguese synagogue of Amsterdam, the Amsterdam canals, and Adriaan Dortsman. He is the author of De Portugese Synagoge in Amsterdam (2013) and Het Paleis van de Republiek. Geschiedenis van het Stadhuis van Amsterdam (Zwolle, 2011). As a member of the Dutch Royal Antiquarian Society he studies architectural drawings (1600–1800), which will lead to a publication on a part of the collection.
Matthew Walker
is a historian of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British architecture. He has held an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford University. Currently he is visiting assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Planning of the University of New Mexico. His first monograph, Architects and Intellectual Culture in Post-Restoration England, appeared in 2017.