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CURRICULA STUDENTS

Jochen Büttner

Ph.D. candidate
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

• Ph.D. dissertation project about the conceptual development of Galileo's science of motion.
• Collaboration in the project "Gli anni della cupola"; building of the "Archivio digitale delle fonti dell'Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore".
• Participation in the "Mechanics Project" (long range study of the development of mechanical knowledge) at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

Raz D. Chen Morris

Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science
The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas and Bezalel - Academy of Fine Arts, Tel Aviv

• 1993-1998. Teaching in "Camera Obscura - School of Visual Art".
• 1995-2001. Teaching at the Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University: "Vision and Knowledge" (MA seminar); "Intellectual History: from Antiquity to the Renaissance"; "Art, Nature and the Mathematical Sciences in the Renaissance" (BA seminar); "Reading the Book of Nature" (MA seminar); together with Dr. Dorit Tanay: "Mathematics, Music and Visual Arts in the Renaissance" (MA seminar); Kepler and the End of the Renaissance (MA seminar).
• 2000. Ph.D. dissertation on "Subduing the Hostile Fortress of Doubt - Renaissance Discourse of Vision and Kepler's New Science".
• Publications:
     - "The Typology and Transformation of Renaissance Discourse of Vision: From Alberti to Kepler", in I. Zinguer and H. Schott (eds.), Systèmes de pensée precartesiens, Paris, 1998, pp. 19-33.
     - "Kepler's Optics: The Mistaken Identity of a Baroque Spectator", Zeitsprünge. Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit, 4, 2000, pp. 50-71.

Simona Cremante

Ph.D. candidate in Architectural and Artistic Cultural Heritage
University of Pisa

• 1998-1999. Degree in the History of Science (University of Florence), with a dissertation on the Codex Huygens.
• 2000-2002: Ph.D. dissertation project about the graphical rules of drawing in the 16th century.
• Publications:
      - Critical edition of the Codex Huygens, in progress.

Pascal Dubourg Glatigny

Chargé de recherche
CNRS, Paris

• 1999. Ph.D. dissertation (University of Paris) on the role of Egnatio Danti (1536-1586) as a mediator between artists of various fields and scientific arguments.
  
• Publications:
      - French edition with full critical apparatus of Vignola's Due regole della prospettiva, (Rome, 1583), in progress.

Sven Dupré

Ph.D. candidate
Ghent University, Belgium

• Conference Papers:
      - "Cigoli's Prospettiva Pratica and Galileo's Sunspot Discovery: A Case Study of the Influence of Artistic Theory on Scientific Practice", International Congress on Discovery and Creativity, Ghent University, 15 May 1998.
      - "Instruments and Embodiment in Art and Science", 4th British North American Joint Meeting of the HSS, CSHPS and BSHS, St. Louis, 3-6 August 2000.
     - "Galileo, Perspective and Mathematical Instruments", XIX International Scientific Instrument Symposium, Wadham College Oxford, 4-8 September 2000.
     - "Galileo, Optics, and the Pinelli Circle", Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Vancouver, 2-5 November 2000.
• Publications:
     - "Mathematical Instruments and the Theory of the Concave Spherical Mirror: Galileo's Optics beyond Art and Science", Nuncius, 15, 2000, pp. 551-588.
     - Galileo's Optics: Interaction between Art and Science, Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium, in press (2001).

Miriam Focaccia

CNR Grant on the Safeguard of Cultural Heritage (Subproject n. 5: "Museum: project, management and benefits")
Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna

• Collaboration to the exhibitions Il mondo in ordine. L'immagine scientifica del mondo tra XVI e XVIII secolo attraverso le collezioni, i musei, i laboratori (Bologna, 2001) and Il teatro della natura di Ulisse Aldrovandi (Bologna 2001.

Janna Israel

Ph.D. candidate in Renaissance Art and Architectural History
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

• Leading sections for Harvard Core Class "Baroque Court Architecture".
• Publications:
     - Paper on the early modern reception of microscopic technology, in progress.

Lyle Massey

Assistant Professor of Art History, applying for junior scholar status
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

• Publications:
     - "Anamorphosis through Descartes or Perspective Gone Away", Renaissance Quarterly, 50, 4 (December 1997): pp. 1148-89 (William Nelson Prize, 1997 Best Article by the Renaissance Society of America).
     - Editor, The Treatise on Perspective: Published and Unpublished, National Gallery Publications/Yale University Press, forthcoming (October 2001).
     - "Configuring Spatial Ambiguity: Tracing the Evolution of the Distance Point from Alberti to Anamorphosis", in L. Massey (ed.), The Treatise on Perspective: Published and Unpublished, National Gallery Publications/Yale University Press, forthcoming (October 2001).
     - The Gamble of the Gaze: Renaissance Perspective, Anamorphosis and the Cartesian Subject, in progress.

Giovanni Maria Masucci

Ph.D. in History of Architecture and Cultural Heritage
Second University of Naples

• Publications:
     - "Il disegno territoriale di Leonardo da Vinci. La regione", in Scritti per i settant'anni di Carlo Pedretti, Rome, 1998.

David Mc Gee

Ph.D.
The Dibner Institute for the History of Science, Cambridge, MA

• 1994. Ph.D. dissertation on a case study of the relationship between plan drawing and ship design in the 19^th century.
• Current research on the development of pre-perspective machine drawings in France, Germany and Italy, as well as the role of drawing in early modern Italian shipbuilding (at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).
• Publications:
     - "From Draughtsmanship to Craftsmanship: Naval Architecture and the Three Traditions of Early Modern Design", Technology and Culture, 40, 1999, pp. 209-236.

Roberta Panzanelli

Project Associate, Research & Education
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA

• 1994-present. Editorial Assistant, Achademia Leonardi Vinci, Florence, Giunti.
• 1999. Ph.D. dissertation in Renaissance Art History (UCLA) on "Pilgrimage in Hyperreality: Images and Imagination in the Early Phase of the New Jerusalem at Varallo (1486-1530)".
  
• Publications:
     - "The Kings from the Orient: the Strozzi Altarpiece as Visual Testimony to the Patron's Social Position", Italian Culture, 10, 1992, pp. 67-81.
     - "The Arconati Lanino", Achademia Leonardi Vinci, VI, 1993, pp. 185-86.
     - "The Arona Altarpiece", Achademia Leonardi Vinci, VI, 1993, pp. 154-57.
     - "Plasticem ante alia penicillo praeponebat", Achademia Leonardi Vinci, X, 1997, pp.152-60.
     - 2000. Editor, "Renaissance and Mannerist Painting and Sculpture", Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Marcus Popplow

Research Scholar
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

• 1996. Ph.D. dissertation (University of Bremen) on "Renaissance engineers' discourses on technology".
• 1997-2001. Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
• Current research on Renaissance engineering drawings, Renaissance engineers' use of 3D models of machines.

Mark S. Rosen

Ph.D. candidate
University of California, Berkeley

• 2001. Fellow, Fondazione Roberto Longhi, Florence.
• Current research on the relationship between art and cartography in later 16th-century Italian decoration, particularly in Florence under Cosimo I and Francesco I.

Daniel Stolzenberg

Ph.D. candidate
Stanford University

• 1998. Graduation thesis in the history of Renaissance and 17th-century science (Stanford University).
• 1998-present. Studies on science in the Renaissance and its relationship with figurative arts.
• 2001. Fulbright scholarship (affiliated with IMSS) for research on the 17th-century Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher, particularly on optics and the construction of devices based on perspectival effects.

Carlo Triarico

Ph.D.
Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence

• 2000. Ph.D. dissertation in the History of Science (University of Florence).
• 2000-present. Postdoctoral scholarship, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence for research about Renaissance scientific instruments and the Cathedral of Florence, Santa Maria del Fiore.

Matteo Valleriani

Ph.D. candidate
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

• 1997. Degree in Philosophy (University of Bologna) with a dissertation on "Galileo as Engineer", focused on drawing in early modern engineering with reference to ship building in the Venetian Arsenal.