Battilotti taught History of Architecture at the University of Udine until 2023. Her research focuses primarily on Andrea Palladio, the urban and territorial history of sixteenth-century Vicenza, and the Venetian villas. Her publications include Vicenza al tempo di Andrea Palladio attraverso i libri dell’estimo del 1563-1564 (1980), Le ville di Palladio (1990), the updated edition of Lionello Puppi’s monograph Andrea Palladio (1999), the edited volume on the villas of the province of Vicenza for the Istituto Regionale Ville Venete (2005), and Le mura di Vicenza nel Cinquecento. Cronaca di un fallimento (2020). Since 2003, she has been a member of the Academic Committee of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio and is also a member of the Accademia Olimpica of Vicenza.

Graduated in Architecture from the University of Florence in 1997, Battista obtained a Specialization in Monument Restoration at La Sapienza University in Rome and a PhD in Landscape Analysis and Valorization at the University of Molise. She carried out teaching and research activities at the Department of History of Architecture and Restoration of Architectural Structures of the University of Florence as part of the “Gruppo di Ricerca sul Restauro Archeologico”, also participating in several research missions in France and Jordan. Since 2012, she has been an architectural officer at the Ministero della Cultura, engaged in landscape protection, high-level supervision of restorations of listed buildings, and project management of ministerial public works.

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.

From 2003 to 2025, he was Professor of Art History at the University of Basel. He directed the German Center for Art History in Paris from 2009 to 2014. His research and publications focus, among other topics, on Neapolitan architecture of the fifteenth century, Italian Renaissance art, and German Neoclassical art. In 1983, he published the first German edition of Palladio’s Quattro Libri dell’architettura and has since worked extensively on the Vicentine architect, with a particular focus on the Teatro Olimpico and the Quattro Libri. Recent books include Il corpo dell’artista. La traccia nascosta della vita nell’arte, Turin 2023; Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist, Reaktion Books, London 2025.

Professor Cammy Brothers, Northeastern University, specializes in Italian Renaissance and Mediterranean art and architecture. She is the author of two monographs, Michelangelo, Drawing and the Invention of Architecture (Yale University Press, 2008) and iuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome (Princeton University Press, 2022). She is at work on her third book, Memory, Preservation, and Appropriation: The Contested Architectural Legacy of Islamic Spain. She is the editor, with Kathleen Christian, of a new book series for Harvey Miller Press, "All'Antica: Early Modern Perspectives on the Antique." In addition to her scholarly publications, she is also a frequent contributor on art and books to the Wall Street Journal.

Graduated in Architecture from the Iuav University of Venice (2003) with a thesis on the restoration of the Tomb of Mastino II at the Scaliger Tombs in Verona, he obtained a specialization in the Con-servation of Architectural Heritage from the Politecnico di Milano (2017) with a thesis on the restora-tions of the Palazzo della Dogana di Terra in Verona. As an official of the Superintendence, he collab-orated from 1985 to 1997 on the restoration of Palazzo Barbaran Da Porto in Vicenza.

Gianmario Guidarelli is Associate Professor of Architectural History at the University of Padua (DICEA) and Adjunct Professor at the Theological Faculty of Triveneto. He coordinates the projects Chiese di Venezia. Nuove prospettive di ricerca, Armonie Composte. Ciclo di seminari sul paesaggio monastico (with Elena Svalduz), and La città medievale. La città dei frati. Medieval city. City of the friars (with Silvia Beltramo). He is the Principal Investigator of the PRIN 2022 research project CoenoBI(u)M. Art and Architecture of the Cassinese Benedictine Congregation (15th–18th century): Strategies for Digital and Spatial Analysis through BIM Models. He is a resident member and Scientific Board member of the Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Since 2024, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Ateneo Veneto (classified in band A for sector E 8). He has published monographs and articles in international journals on the history of medieval and Renaissance architecture, with particular focus on Venice. His current research focuses on religious architecture in the Renaissance and on the theme of the monastic landscape in Italian Humanism.

Charles Hind is the Chief Curator Emeritus of the Royal Institute of British Architects, having retired in 2024, and is a Visiting Fellow of the CISAPalladio and Chairman of the Editorial Board of the RIBA Palladio Drawings Cataloguing Project. After a history degree at Oxford and a false start as a librarian, he moved to Sotheby's to run an annual sale of architecture and design drawings, before becoming an architecture editor for the Macmillan Dictionary of Art and he joined the RIBA as Curator of Drawings in 1996. He has published and lectured widely on British architectural history, principally of the 17th to 19th centuries and curated numerous exhibitions derived principally from the RIBA Collections, most notably in this context (with Dr Guido Beltramini) Palladio and his Legacy. A Transatlantic Journey (which toured in the USA 2010-11) and Palladianism: the Good, the Bad and the Unexpected (London, 2015-16). He has recently co-authored The Architectural Drawing Book (RIBA Publishing, 2023) and is currently chairman of the Lutyens Trust.

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.

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).

Graduated in architecture, in 2015 she obtained a PhD with a dissertation on the reception of the Basilica of Maxentius. Since 2009, she has collaborated in various capacities with several universities, including IUAV in Venice and the University of San Marino. With a research project on Venetian publishing, she was a fellow at the Branca Center of the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice, where she has worked since 2016 as an architect focusing on conservation. Her research spans multiple disciplines, from the reception of antiquity in Renaissance culture to treatises, from construction techniques to heritage conservation. She is the author of several essays, particularly on the reception of Vitruvius’s work.

Marlene Schwemer is a PhD candidate in History of Art at Yale. She holds a BA and MA in History of Art and Architecture as well as a BA in Romance Studies (Italian and Portuguese) from the University of Vienna, where she also spent two semesters abroad at the Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice and the Università Roma Tre in Rome. Her research investigates the intellectual intersections between the study of antiquity and architectural practices in sixteenth-century Italy, highlighting the role of drawing in design processes. Through an interdisciplinary approach, she explores how representations of ancient and all’antica architecture blend reality and fiction in shaping historical narratives and antiquarian knowledge. In this context, she has developed a particular interest in the work of Andrea Palladio, reflected in her recent essay forthcoming in Annali di architettura, which examines the relationship between his drawings of antiquity and his design for the Villa Pisani at Montagnana. Marlene’s research has been supported by fellowships from the German Center for Venetian Studies, the International Center for Studies on Andrea Palladio Architecture, and the Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin in Switzerland.

Vitale Zanchettin (1967) is associate professor of History of Architecture at Università Iuav di Venezia, where he teaches since 2001 and where he earned his his PhD in History of Architecture and Urban Planning, with a dissertation on social housing in Germany in the Thirties (1999). As a fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte in Rome, he studied the urban development of Rome in the early 1500s. Later on, he concentrated his research on the work of Carlo Scarpa, focusing on the construction process and the architectural drawings. In 2006 he collaborated with the Österreich Institut in Rom on the Adolf Loos exhibition (Rome 2007). As Alexander von Humboldt fellow (2007–2009), he concentrated his research on Michelangelo as architect, and on the structural travertine building process at the Fabbrica di San Pietro. At that time he was visiting professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. For his research on the Vatican Basilica he was awarded the Hanno-und-Ilse-Hahn prize from the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte in 2009. In 2012 was a visiting professor at Virginia University and further research about the early architectural work Michelangelo at Kunsthistorisches Institut di Firenze – Max Planck Institut. Since 2000 he collaborated in many projects with the Centro Internazionale di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza, becoming member of its scientific committee. Since 2015 he is the curator of the Office of Architectural Superintendance at the Vatican Musuems, managing the scientific supervision of the architectural restorations. At the moment his research is focused on Raphael’s painted architecture.