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 …
Ginette Vagenheim, of the University of Rouen, used the the Italian Architectural Drawings Photograph Collection to investigate Polidoro da Caravaggio’s influence on the Pirro Ligorio’s early drawings, focusing on the motif of landscapes.
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. …
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 …
Research project on “Trust, Industry, and Justice” at the Certosa di San Martino, a unique historic monument in Naples, to be conducted in the Italian Architectural Drawings and Photograph Collection at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery.
Research at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts on art historical photo libraries. Caraffa is head of the photo library at the Department of Art History in Florence, Italy.
Research on architectural decoration in the early Venetian Renaissance, conducted in the Italian Architectural Drawings and Photographic Collection at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.
Research in the Italian Architectural Drawings and Photographic Collection to further work on a digital archive of documents being developed in Florence on the building of Brunelleschi’s cupola for Santa Maria del Fiore.
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.
Research on the uses, functions and publics of Venice’s churches, from the city’s origins until the Counter-Reformation, conducted at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.
For his translations of Cesare Pavese. Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950 (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon, 2002) collects all of Pavese’s poems from 1930 until his death in 1950. Poet Rosanna Warren noted that these are “poems that have the density, the grit, the obdurate presentness hewn from silence for which Pavese fought so hard in …
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 …
Project on redefining Italian policy and legislation for managing Italy’s cultural heritage.
Research on the Florentine Palazzo Uguccioni and its Roman architectural influences, conducted at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.