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.
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COMING SOON
My digital exhibition with the Sir John Soane’s Museum will launch in November 2024.
Beyond the Painter-Architect: Artists Reinventing Architecture in Renaissance Italy
Find out more on my Exhibitions page.
An exhibition on Michelangelo will open in March 2025 at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. The catalogue will feature my translations of letters by the artists, including the first English version of his description of the 1516 project for the tomb of Julius II.
Three panels at the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston (20-22 March 2025)
Beyond the Painter-Architect: Exploring Art and Architecture as Integrated Practices
Line-up of speakers and respondents to be announced shortly
Images top to bottom, left to right:
North Italian draughtsman, Palace façade, North Italian Album, SJSM Vol. 122, p. 54. Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, late fifteenth-early sixteenth century. © Sir John Soane’s Museum, London. Photograph by Ardon Bar-Hama.
Michelangelo, Moses (for the tomb of Julius II), 1513-1515, completed and installed 1545. San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome. Wikimedia Commons
Fra Damiano Zambelli (Damiano da Bergamo), Annunciation, 1536. San Pietro, Perugia. Wood intarsia. Wikimedia Commons
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