I am a historian of art and architecture of early modern Europe. My research focuses on the intersection of artistic and architectural practice, especially in Italy, c. 1300 – c. 1500.
I am particularly interested in the relationship between design and craft, the emergence of the architect as a new professional, and the production of artistic and architectural knowledge.
I explore these issues both within Italy and in terms of its exchanges with wider Europe and the Byzantine and Ottoman empires.
In addition to my research, I work as a curator, editor and translator. My research has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the University of Warwick and the Warburg Institute.
UPCOMING EVENT
16 May 2024, 5pm
Artistic Practice and the Emergence of the Architect in Italy, c. 1300 – c. 1480
Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
Images top to bottom, left to right:
Pesellino, Triumph of David, detail, 1445-55. National Gallery, London. Wikimedia Commons
Altichiero da Zevio, Baptism of King Sevius and Martyrdom of St George, 1384. Oratory of St George, Padua. Wikimedia Commons
North Italian draughtsman, Five-domed basilica, North Italian Album, SJSM Vol. 122, p. 6. Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, late fifteenth-early sixteenth century. © Sir John Soane’s Museum, London. Photograph by Ardon Bar-Hama.
Andrea del Verrocchio and workshop (attr.), Virgin Adoring the Infant Christ (Ruskin Madonna), National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1470–1475. Wikimedia Commons
Titian: Love, Desire, Death. Exhibition catalogue, National Gallery, London and Yale University Press
Benozzo Gozzoli, Virgin and Child Enthroned, 1461-62. National Gallery, London. Wikimedia Commons