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66th Course on Palladian Architecture
Palladio and water
Vicenza + Veneto, 29th August - 4th September 2024

Lecturers

Donata Battilotti, Università di Udine
Donata
Donata Battiloti teaches History of Architecture in the Arts Faculty at the University of Udine. Her interests include: the life and works of Andrea Palladio, the use of tax documents in reconstructing the urban image and landscape of sixteenth-century Vicenza, Venetian villas, the construction of the Palazzo Comunale, the Piazza Contarena and Piazza I° Maggio in Udine, eighteenth-century Friulan architecture, and commercial and manufacturing settlements in Livorno and in Florence during the Renaissance.
Guido Beltramini, Direttore CISA Andrea Palladio
Guido
Guido Beltramini has been director of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura (CISAAP) since 1991. He was a contract professor at the University of Ferrara from 1994 to 2002 and has been a visiting professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design since 2015. His main interest is the history of Renaissance architecture, with a special focus on Palladio, Venetian architecture, the art of war, and the study of the Antique.
Gerd Blum, Kunstakademie, Münster
Gerd

Gerd Blum è professore di storia dell'arte all'Accademia di belle arti di Münster e professore onorario presso il Dipartimento di storia dell'arte dell'Università di Vienna. Blum è stato Visiting Professor all'Università di Heidelberg e Visiting Scholar presso l'Institute for Advanced Study dell'Università di Costanza. Nel 2010 gli è stato conferito il premio dell'Aby-Warburg-Stiftung di Amburgo.

La sua monografia sulla "fenestra prospectiva" e sulle viste/vedute incorniciate architettonicamente nell’Italia della prima età moderna è stata pubblicata nella serie "Studien aus dem Warburg Haus" (De Gruyter) nel 2015. Blum ha pubblicato una monografia su Giorgio Vasari e ha curatp numerosi articoli in volumi e riviste accademiche, tra cui articoli su Leon Battista Albert e la "Villa Rotonda" di Andrea Palladio.

Bruce Boucher, Sir John Soane’s Museum, Londra
Bruce
Bruce Boucher was Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum from 2016 to 2023. He studied at Harvard University, Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar), and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He taught for over twenty years at University College London before entering the museum world as curator and head of European Sculpture, Decorative Arts, and Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (2002-2009). He is the author of a number of books, among them: The Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino (1991), Andrea Palladio: The Architect in his Time (1994, revised, 1998 and 2007), Italian Baroque Sculpture (1998), and Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova (editor, 2001). He was Director of the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia from 2009-16. He has served on the steering committee or has been responsible for various exhibitions, including: Andrea Palladio (Haywood Gallery, 1975); The Genius of Venice (Royal Academy, 1983); Donatello e i suoi (Florence, 1986); Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Victoria & Albert Museum, 2001-2002). He is a corresponding member of the Ateneo Veneto in Venice, a former president of the board of the Center for Palladian Studies in America, a former member of the Association of Art Museum Directors, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He is currently at work on a book about Sir John Soane as a collector. His latest book, John Soane’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Reflections on an Architect and His Collections, was published by Yale University Press in 2024.
Howard Burns, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Howard
Chairman of the CISAAP Advisory Board, Howard Burns has taught at the University of Cambridge, the Courtauld Institute of Art, Harvard University, the IUAV, Venice, and the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, of which he is now professor emeritus. He has played a major role in the preparation of all the CISAAP exhibitions as well as in the organisation of exhibitions on Raphael (Rome, 1984), Giulio Romano (Mantua, 1989) and Francesco di Giorgio (Siena, 1993). His publications include essays on Filippo Brunelleschi, Leon Battista Alberti, Francesco di Giorgio, Raphael, Baldassarre Peruzzi, Giulio Romano, Pirro Ligorio, Michele Sanmicheli and Michelangelo.
Gianmario Guidarelli, Università IUAV di Venezia, Università degli Studi di Padova
Gianmario
After graduating in architecture from the Venice University Institute of Architecture (iuav, 2002), Gianmario Guidarelli obtained a PhD in the history of architecture and the city from the Scuola di Studi Avanzati, Venice (2006). He has collaborated with several universities and Italian and international research institutes. He currently teaches the history of architecture at the University of Padua and is the director of the international project entitled “The Churches Of Venice. New Research Perspectives” (Studium Generale Marcianum, Venice). His main research interests are the history of architecture, especially religious architecture from the 15th to 17th centuries, with a special focus on the relations between construction sites, design culture and liturgy. He has published essays or monographs on Venetian civil, religious and confraternal architecture, Naples cathedral, the architecture of the religious orders in the Renaissance and the cathedral of San Pietro di Castello. He has collaborated with the cisaap since 2005.
Federico Marcomini, Università di Firenze
Federico
After graduating in art history/architecture, he obtained his Ph.D. in the history of architecture and the city from the University of Florence in 2024. His research has focused on the reuse of classical language and Palladianism in hyper-contemporary architecture, exploring this phenomenon through case studies in the Balkans and former Soviet Asia. He is currently collaborating with the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, where he has deepened and broadened his research interests to include the cultural history of Italian architecture and Palladian historiography. He has presented the results of his work in scientific publications and international conferences.
Francesco Marcorin, Curatore del Palladio Museum
Francesco
Having graduated with the a first-class degree in architecture, Francesco Marcorin obtained a PhD from the Venice University Institute of Architecture (iuav) with a thesis on Michele Sanmicheli (2014). He then collaborated with the State Archives in Verona, where he conducted an initial re-ordering of the archive of Bevilacqua di San Michele alla Porta. In addition to studies on Sanmicheli and his workshop, his current research interests include spolia in the Late Antique and Modern Ages, Renaissance architectural theory, and patronage and art collecting in 16th to 18th century Veneto.
Damiana Lucia Paternò
Damiana Lucia
After graduating from Venice University Institute of Architecture (iuav, 2008), she obtained a PhD in the Conservation of the Architectural Heritage from the Politecnico di Milano with a thesis on restorations of Palladian buildings in the 19th and 20th centuries (2013). Since 2008 she has been a teaching assistant at the iuav. As a research fellow at the same institute (2014), she conducted studies on Palladio’s construction techniques and drafted a project for a catalogue of them in cooperation with the Ministry of the Cultural Heritage and the cisaap, with which she has collaborated since 2010. She has taken part in Italian and international conferences and has written essays and articles on the state of conservation of Palladian works and their restorations; she drafted the first complete register of all Palladian restoration works carried out since 1945, published as Palladio, materiali, tecniche, restauri (2011).
Cara Rachele, ETH Zürich
Cara

Cara Rachele teaches Renaissance architectural history and theory, as well as further courses in architectural representation and textual analysis, at the chair of Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke at the Institut for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich.

Cara is a specialist in early modern Italian art and architecture, with a secondary interest in the nineteenth century. Her research focuses on representation and works on paper – disegno and drawing practice more broadly – and the development of architectural practice and education. Her current project investigates the emergence of the artist-architect in early sixteenth-century Italy through an exploration of the development of drawing practice in Florence and Rome. It sheds new light on the importance of drawing for architecture, as well as disegno as a unifying theoretical framework for artistic creation. In the early stages is a second project, provisionally titled “Fear of Falling: Unstable Architectures in Early Modern Italy”, which investigates structural solidity and anxiety of collapse in early modern artistic discourse.

Cara has been a fellow of the Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Florence), the Drawing Institute of the Morgan Library & Museum (New York), the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institut, and the Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe of the Uffizi Museums (Florence), among others. She holds a BA in art history and architectural practice from Columbia University and a PhD in art and architectural history from Harvard University.

Marlene Schwemer, Universität Wien
Marlene
Marlene Schwemer studied Art History and Romance Studies (Italian/Portuguese) in Vienna, Rome, and Venice. Her master’s thesis examines Palladio’s references to antiquity in his design for the Villa Pisani in Montagnana and was supported by a research fellowship at the German Centre for Venetian Studies (Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani). During her studies, she worked as a teaching assistant at the Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna and at various research institutes, such as the Biblioteca Hertziana in Rome, and museums, such as the Haus der Kunst in Munich, as well as for the contemporary architecture magazine Detail. Her research interests include early modern Italian architectural history, and particularly the reception of antiquity, Palladian drawings, and 16th-century art literature.
Elena Svalduz, Università di Padova
Elena
Elena Svalduz is Associate Professor of History of Architecture in the Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Padua. Her principal interests are the history of architecture, the history of the city in the modern age, and the historical landscape. A member of both the AISU Board of Directors and the Steering Committee of Visualizing Cities since 2017, with Gianmario Guidarelli she jointly curates the "Armonie composte" project and publishing series on the monastic landscape (www.armoniecomposte.org).
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