CASVA: Henry and Judith Millon Award*

Mauro Mussolin

Through his research project entitled Michelangelo and Paper as Palimpsest, Mauro Mussolin, professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and New York University Florence, investigated the sources of Michelangelo’s graphic work as well as the lifecycle and uses of paper in the studios of Italian Renaissance artists. Arguing that Michelangelo’s use of paper was […]

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Mauro Mussolin

Mauro Mussolin, Professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and New York University Florence, conducted a research project at CASVA entitled Michelangelo and Paper as Palimpsest. In his book, Mussolin seeks to investigate both the sources of Michelangelo’s graphic work, and the lifecycle and uses of paper in the studios of Italian Renaissance artists.

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Lucia Simonato

Lucia Simonato (Asst. Prof. at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) was in residence for two months at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. A Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow at the Gallery, she explored the Italian Architectural Drawings Photograph Collection for her project on Literary Description

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Cammy Brothers

Research on Giuliano da Sangallo and the ruins of Rome, conducted in the Italian Architectural Drawings and Photographic Collection at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. The time required for this project was facilitated for Professor Brothers, of the University of Virginia, by a residence at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington.

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Daniela Lamberini

Research on the sixteenth-century military architect Giovan Battista Belluzzi, who worked for the de Medici in Florence and on the island of Elba, conducted at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. While in Washington Lamberini, of the University of Florence, also consulted a unique 17th-century manuscript held by the US Library of

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