Niall Atkinson is completing his PhD at Cornell University in the social history of Florentine urban space in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. From 2004-2006 he was the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, during which he delivered papers on the reception of urban space, social insurrection, and the soundscape of Renaissance Florence.
Anne Dunlop is Associate Professor, History of Art and Renaissance Studies, Yale University where she teaches and writes about Italian art and culture from the fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century. Her research interests include Europe’s relations with Asia and Africa in the Mongol era, early secular art and culture, the visual shift of circa 1300, and Renaissance ideas of gender.
Professor Dunlop is the author of Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy (Penn State Press, 2009), and co-editor of Art and the Augustinian Order in Early-Renaissance Italy (Ashgate, 2007). She is currently working on two new projects. The first, Gold, Earth, and Stones: Global Exchange and Artistic Change in Italy c. 1300-1500, explores the shift in European painting in the Mongol era, which brought by new materials and contacts with Asia and Africa. The second, Castagno’s Crimes, focuses on the painter Andrea del Castagno and the use of the male figure in Quattrocento art. This year she was awarded fellowships at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti Center for Renaissance Studies, at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery, and at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. She is a two-time Feminae Article-of- the-Month winner, and has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute, a Rome Award fellow at the British School at Rome, and a Commonwealth Scholar.
She taught at Concordia University in Montreal before joining the Yale faculty, where she has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies, and as Visiting Professor at Peking University in the Yale-PKU joint undergraduate program. Among her recent courses are ‘Silk Road Renaissance,’ ‘Fiction and Imitiation in Pre-modern Art,’ and a survey of Italian Renaissance art with all sections taught in Yale campus collections.
Bruce L. Edelstein teaches and serves as Coordinator for Graduate Programs and Advanced Research at New York University in Florence. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1995 after completing a dissertation on the patronage of Duchess of Florence Eleonora di Toledo, a reflection of his broader interest in mechanisms of court patronage and the exercise of female authority in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy. He has held teaching positions at the Florida State University Florence Study Center, Syracuse University in Italy and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and curatorial positions at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Fogg Museum. During the academic year 2001-2, he was a fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti. Recent publications include articles on Eleonora di Toledo’s investment policy, the typology of the Albertian hortus, the hydraulic system of the lost Neapolitan villa of Poggioreale as a model for sixteenth-century Medici gardens, the iconography of Abundance in the courtly persona of Eleonora di Toledo and the mid-sixteenth-century appearance and function of the Camera Verde in the Palazzo Vecchio. At present, he is completing a book on the early history of the Boboli Gardens.
Francesca Fiorani, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia, is an expert on the relationship between art and science in Renaissance and Baroque Europe. The author of The Marvel of Maps. Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy (Yale University Press, 2005), she has written extensively on the representation of space, cartography, mapping and art theory. The director of the digital archive Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting, in collaboration with the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities, she is currently completing a book on Leonardo da Vinci’s shadows considered from the point of view of artistic practice, optics, philosophy and culture.
Leslie Korrick PhD is a professor of art and cultural history in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University, Toronto. Professor Korrick is an interdisciplinary arts scholar with a wide range of interests in the fine arts, both historical and contemporary, and a strong record of teaching and research in music and architecture. Her current work considers relationships between the visual arts and music in theory and practice. Parallel to her academic career, Professor Korrick has worked with a number of community-based arts collectives and cultural institutions as a lecturer, writer, board member, mentor and consultant. These include GroundSwell New Music, Tafelmusik, Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, and Manitoba Theatre Centre. She plays several musical instruments and has performed as an actor and dancer in period productions of Renaissance and Baroque works for the stage. She is currently completing a book on correspondences between painting and music in sixteenth-century Italy.
Elena Lamberti PhD teaches American and Canadian Literature and Culture at the University of Bologna, Italy. Her areas of research include: Anglo-American Modernism, Literature and Technology, Cultural Memory, War Literature, Media Studies. She has published several essays on English and Anglo-American Modernism (Ford, Joyce, Pound, Hemingway), as well as Anglo-Canadian culture of the late 20th Century (Coupland, Cronenberg, McLuhan). She is the author of the award winning volume Marshall McLuhan: Tra letteratura, arti e media (Bruno Mondadori, 2000); editor of the volume Interpreting/Translating European Modernis: A Comparative Approach (Compositori, 2001); co-editor of Il senso critico: Saggi di Ford Madox Ford (with V. Fortunati, Alinea 2001), Ford Madox Ford and The Republic of Letters (with V. Fortunati, CLUEB 2002); co-editor of Biocomplexity at the Cutting Edge of Physics, System Biology and Humanities (Bononia University Press, 2008), co-editor of Memories And Representations of War in Europe: The Case of WW1 and WW2 (Rodopi, 2009). She is currently completing a new volume on Marshall McLuhan’s Critical Writing. Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies (forthcoming U of T Press).
Dr. Lamberti has served on several boards for European Research Projects and on European and North American Editorial Boards.
Ron Mehlman has been exhibiting his work internationally since the 1970's. He has created many large scale public and private commissioned sculptures, in the United States and Europe. He divides his creative time between his studio in the beautiful countryside of Pietrasanta, Italy, and his workshop in the new Venice of Brooklyn: the Gowanus Canal area, in New York City. He is represented by the Kouros Gallery in New York City and La Subbia Gallery in Pietrasanta, Italy.
Constance Moffat PhD is Vice-Chair, Department of Art + Architecture, Pierce College, Los Angeles and is a graduate of UCLA in Renaissance and Baroque Art History (Urbanism and Political Discourse: Lodovico Sforza's Architectural Plans and Emblematic Imagery at Vigevano)
Mauro Mussolin holds a Ph.D. University Institute of Architecture of Venice is an expert in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Architecture. He has done research on Italian Art History all over Italy as well as at Harvard University. He is writing on a book on Michelangelo's work in Florence. Besides doing research and teaching, he has published several articles and translated Art History books
Oriana Palusci is Professor of English at the University of Naples, "L'Orientale" (Italy). She has published on XIX and XX century women writers, utopian literature, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, especially on Canadian literature and more recently on tourism studies. Among her many publications, she has edited La tipografia nel salotto: saggi su Virginia Woolf (1999), Postcolonial Studies: Changing Perceptions (2007) and co-edited, The Shape of a Culture: Il dibattito sulla cultura inglese dalla Rivoluzione industriale al mondo contemporaneo (2004) and Delicate Monsters. Literary Creatures of Wonder (2007); Translating Tourism. Linguistic/cultural representations (2006) and The Languages of Tourism. Turismo e mediazione (2007). She has coordinated a number of international projects, both within the European Community and with Canada and U.S.A.
Timothy Verdon, a Roman Catholic priest and Canon of Florence Cathedral, took a PhD in art history at Yale University in 1975 and has taught in the United States and in Italy. He currently lectures for Stanford University in their Florence, Italy programme. He has published books and articles on religious art in Italy and related topics.
Reesa Greenberg's interest in cultural theory and the theory of exhibition and museum practices has translated into a variety of contributions within the academic and museum communities. From 1971 to 1999, she was Associate Professor of Art History at Concordia University. In addition to publishing numerous essays on contemporary Canadian art and artists, she has written extensively on the theory and practice of exhibition experience in the contemporary museum. Selected Published Works: "From Wall to Web: Displaying Art Stolen from Jews by Hitler", in Obsession, Compulsion, Collection: On Objects, Display Culture and Interpretation, Anthony Kiendl (ed.), Banff: The Banff Curatorial Institute, 92-109, 2004.Thinking about Exhibitions, co-edited with Bruce W. Ferguson and Sandy Nairne, Routledge, 1996."Name and Family Name", in Name and Family Name, Calgary: Stride Gallery, np (Exhibition catalogue: Micah Lexier), 1993.