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Francesco Benelli
Assistant Professor
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture, History and Theory
Ph.D., Istituto Universitario di Architettura, Venice, 2001

Biography
Francesco Benelli’s scholarship and teaching on history and theory of Renaissance and Baroque architecture are influenced by his background of a practicing architect. His interests and publications spans from the late fourteenth to the end of sixteenth century. They focus on issues of design, building materials, structures, the interpretation and acquisition of the Antiquity during the Renaissance, but also on the relation between structure and decoration and the theoretical discourse on these topics from Leon Battista Alberti to Andrea Palladio. Francesco Benelli is experienced in archaeological surveys and conservation of public, private and monastic Medieval and Early Modern buildings and fortifications as well. Recently he published articles on Rudolph Wittkower and Renaissance architecture and on the influence of the German scholar on Colin Rowe, based upon material of the Wittkower archive. His main current project is a book on architecture in painting from Giotto to Masaccio.

Contact Information
904 Schermerhorn Hall
Telephone: (212) 854-4230
E-mail: fb2013@columbia.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2:15-4:00

Web Sites
Italian Renaissance Architecture: learn.columbia.edu/renarch




Rcent Publications

Book Selections:

“The notion of exatitude in Fifteenth Century Architecture. The case of the Palazzo del Podestà in Bologna”, in Geometrical Object, edited by A. Gerbino, Cambridge MA: MIT Press (forthcoming). Peer review.

“Rudolf Wittkower studioso delle ville di Palladio”, in Palladio 1508-2008. Il simposio del Cinquecentenario, F. Barbieri et al. (eds.), Marsilio Venice 2008, pp. 49-53.

“I materiali di costruzione a Bologna fra Medioevo e Rinascimento. Forma e Linguaggio”, in Storia dell’architettura come storia delle tecniche di Costruzione. Esperienze rinascimentali a confronto, M. Ricci (ed.), Venice: Marsilio 2007, 22-45. Peer review.

“Seeing and reading: metodi analitici di Rudolf Wittkower per l’articolo su Leon Battista Alberti del 1940”, in Leon Battista Alberti e l’architettura, M. Bulgarelli, A. Calzona, M. Ceriana, F.P. Fiore, (eds.), Milano 2006, pp. 557-567. Peer review.

“Il palazzo del Podestà di Bologna nel Quattrocento. Storia e architettura”, in Nuovi Antichi. Committenti, Cantieri, Architetti 1400-1600, F. Benelli, C. Baglione, M. T. Sambin de Norcen, R. Schofield (ed.), Milano, Electa, 2004, pp. 67-119. Peer review.

Articles:

“Diversification of knowledge: Military Architecture as a Political Tool during the Renaissance: the Case of Francesco di Giorgio Martini, in RES, Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics, Harvard University, 57/58, Spring/autumn 2010 (forthcoming, peer reviewed).

“Il cortile d’onore del Castello Brancaleoni di Piobbico. Storia, Stile ed un tentativo di Attribuzione”, in Bollettino d’Arte, special edition for the 100 anniversary (Rome), 140 (2007), 12-30. Peer review.
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