Dr Livia Lupi
About
Livia Lupi joined Warwick in 2018 as a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow. Her book project, entitled “Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy: Innovation and Persuasion at the Intersection of Artistic and Architectural Practice,” focuses on the representation of architecture in Italian painting between the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries. Arguing that architecture in painting is a powerful form of visual rhetoric, the book explores the architectural imagination of artists and sheds light on the productive intersection between artistic and architectural practice in Italy at this time.
Livia obtained her BA in History of Art from the University of York, her MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art, and then went back to York to work on her AHRC-funded PhD, which she completed in 2016. Before joining Warwick, she was a fellow at the Warburg Institute in London and taught at the University of York and at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Research interests
- Late-medieval and Renaissance painting and architecture, especially in Italy
- Representations of architecture in the arts
- Frescoes
- History of rhetoric and its interplay with the visual arts
- Architectural drawings
- Painter-architect figures
- Exchanges between Italy and the Byzantine world
Teaching and supervision
- Setting the Scene: Architecture and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy
- Classicism
Selected publications
- “La rhétorique du lieu. Art de la mémoire et architecture dans l’Oratoire St-Georges de Padoue.” In La figure et son lieu dans la peinture des Trecento-Quattrocento. Mnémonique et poétique, edited by Anne-Laure Imbert. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne (forthcoming 2020)
- “Fictive Architecture and Pictorial Place: Altichiero da Zevio’s Oratory of St George in Padua (c.1379-1384).” In Place and Space in the Medieval World, edited by Jane Hawkes, Meg Boulton and Heidi Stoner, 137-148. New York and London: Routledge, 2018.
- “The Rhetoric of Fictive Architecture: Copia and Amplificatio in Altichiero da Zevio’s Oratory of St George, Padua.” Architectural History, 60 (2017): 1-35.
Specialist Translations
- Titian’s Letters. In Titian: Love, Desire, Death, exh. cat. London: National Gallery (forthcoming 2020)
- (with Amanda Lillie) Sebastiano del Piombo’s Letters to Michelangelo, 1518-1531. In Michelangelo & Sebastiano, exh. cat., pp. 225-237. London: National Gallery Company and Yale University Press, 2017.
- Alessandro Nogarola, La vita della Serenissima Reina Maria d'Austria, Reina d’Ungheria […] (n.p., 1553), pp. 22-24. Appendix 3 in Cordula van Wyhe, “The Fabric of Female Rule in Leone Leoni’s Statue of Mary of Hungary, c. 1549-1556.” In Cambridge and the Study of Netherlandish Art, edited by Meredith Hale, pp. 135-168. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016.
Invited Talks
- “The Agency of Architectural Settings: Invention, Time and Place in Fra Angelico’s Nicholas V Chapel.” Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rome (29 October 2019).
- “Drawing, Painting and Building Architecture. A Historical Perspective.” Andrew Phillips Studio, London (28 November 2017).
- “Rhétorique du lieu: art de la mémoire et architecture dans la peinture italienne au XIVe siècle.” Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris (16 March 2017).
Qualifications
- BA (York)
- MA (London)
- PhD (York)
Research Fellow
Contact
Tel: +44 (0)24 765 23436
Email: livia.lupi@warwick.ac.uk
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Teaching
Undergraduate modules
HA1A2 Introduction to Art History: Classicism and the Art of Christianity