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.
My book is now available
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Book launch on Monday 7 October, Warburg Institute, London, 5.30pm, with Cammy Brothers and Amanda Lillie as respondents.
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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.
My translations of letters by Michelangelo, including the first English version of the artist’s description of the 1516 project for the tomb of Julius II, will appear in the catalogue of an exhibition at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (opening March 2025).
Beyond the Painter-Architect: Exploring Art and Architecture as Integrated Practices I, II and III
Sponsored by the European Architectural History Network
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston (20-22 March 2025)
Line-up of speakers and respondents to be announced shortly
Images top to bottom, left to right:
Fra Angelico, St Lawrence before Decius, detail of pilaster capitals, east wall, Nicholas V Chapel, Vati- can Palace, Rome, 1448–1450. Photo © Governatorato dello S.C.V. – Direzione dei Musei. Tutti i diritti riservati.
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
Michelangelo, copy after the Codex Coner, inv. 1859-6-25-560r (W18r, Corpus 516r), British Museum, London. Wikimedia Commons
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