Columbia University
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies
ITALY AT COLUMBIA
A SERIES OF
BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS
TUESDAY OCTOBER 26 AT 4:10 PM
VITTORIA DI PALMA
Naples and Natural History on the Grand
Tour
MONDAY NOVEMBER 8 AT 3:10 PM
DAVID ROSAND
Ut pictor
poeta: Titan’s Early Mythologies
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 23 AT 2:10 PM
FRANCESCO BENELLI
The Architecture of Michelangelo
New York, NY— October 8, 2010 — Columbia University’s Italian Academy for
Advanced Studies in America will host three lectures by prominent art historians
who teach at Columbia University. The
Italian Academy is located at 1161 Amsterdam Avenue between 116th and 118th
Streets. Admission is free. Please note that each of the lectures is part of a
Columbia University course and will begin promptly at the noted time.
For further information, please contact Allison Jeffrey (aj211@columbia.edu).
Vittoria Di Palma is Assistant Professor of
Architectural History in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at
Columbia University. She is the co-editor of Intimate Metropolis:
Urban Subjects in the Modern City (Routledge:
2009) and her writing has also been published in AA Files, the Journal
of Architecture, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural
Historians. She is currently writing a book on landscape and natural
history in 18th-century England.
Prof. Di Palma specializes in modern European architectural
history and theory, with a particular concentration on eighteenth-century
architecture and landscape. Her research focuses on connections between
landscape and epistemology; ideas of the natural and the artificial; and, more
broadly, brings art historical issues to bear upon architectural history,
examining, for example, ways in which visuality,
aesthetics, and perception inform our understanding of buildings and
environments.
David Rosand is Meyer
Schapiro Professor emeritus of Art History at Columbia University, where he has
taught since 1964. His scholarship has focused on the Italian Renaissance and
the art of Venice in particular, and on the history and criticism of the graphic
arts. His publications in the field
include Titian and the Venetian Woodcut
(1976--co-authored with Michelangelo Muraro), Titian (1978), Painting in Cinquecento Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto (1982;
rev. ed. 1997), The Meaning of the Mark:
Leonardo and Titian (1988), Myths of
Venice: The Figuration of a State (2001), and Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and Representation
(2002). In the area of American
painting, another of his fields of interest, he has published Robert Motherwell
on Paper: Drawings, Prints, Collages (1997) and The Invention of Painting in America (2004). His latest book, a monograph on the art of
Paolo Veronese, is scheduled for publication next year.
Prof. Rosand is a member of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Istituto
Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
and the Ateneo Veneto in Venice, and has served for
many years on the board of the Renaissance Society of America, which has
honored him with the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime
Achievement Award (2007). He is project
director for Save Venice, Inc., an organization dedicated to the conservation
of the art and monuments of the city on the lagoon.
Francesco
Benelli draws upon his background as a practicing architect in his
research in the history and theory of Renaissance and Baroque architecture,
focusing on the era from the late fourteenth century to the end of the
sixteenth century. His articles have addressed issues of design, building
materials, structures, and the interpretation and acquisition of the Antiquity
during the Renaissance. He has published work on the relation between structure
and decoration and their theoretical discourse, from Leon Battista Alberti to Andrea Palladio.
Prof. Benelli is an experienced
archaeological surveyor with a background in the conservation of public,
private and monastic Medieval and Early Modern buildings and fortifications. He
recently published articles on Rudolph Wittkower and
Renaissance architecture and, utilizing the Wittkower
archive, the influence of the German scholar on Colin Rowe. He is currently
writing a book on architecture in painting from Giotto to Masaccio.