Research interests

• Late medieval and early modern 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

Book Manuscript

Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy: Innovation and Persuasion at the Intersection of Artistic and Architectural Practice (near completion)

Articles and Book Chapters

• “Perspectiva and Prospectiva: Space and the Representation of Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy.”
  In Perspectives on Early Renaissance Pictorial Space, edited by Niko Munz, Sumihiro Oki and Charley Ladee. Turnhout: Brepols (forthcoming 2022).
• “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 2021).
• “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., 194-195 and 197-203. London: National Gallery and Yale University Press, 2020.
• (with Amanda Lillie) Sebastiano del Piombo’s Letters to Michelangelo, 1518-1531. In Michelangelo & Sebastiano, exh. cat., pp. 225-237. London: National Gallery 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)