Conservation
Archaeology
Marvin Trachtenberg
Edith Kitzmiller Professor Emeritus of the History of Fine Arts
PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 1967
Research Interests
Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance architecture and urbanism
Problems of temporality in architecture and historiography
Problematics of architectural authorship
The origins of perspective
Sample Courses
Architect, Patron and Society in the Early Renaissance
Architectural Problems of Renaissance Classicism
Architectonic Culture of Late Medieval Italy
Public Space in Early Modern Italy
Gothic Architecture: Theory and methods of interpretation
on-site summer course in Florence, architecture and urbanism 11-15th centuries
Selected Publications
Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion. Yale University Press, London, 2010.
Trachtenberg, Marvin and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture from Prehistory to
Postmodernity, 2nd edition.New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002.
"Architecture and Music Reunited: A New Reading of
Dufay's Nuper Rosarum Flores and the Cathedral of Florence," Renaissance
Quarterly (2001): 740-75.
"Desedimenting Time: Gothic Column/paradigm
Shifter," RES 40 (2001): 5-27.
Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art and Power in Early
Modern Florence. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1997.
"Why the Pazzi Chapel is not by Brunelleschi." Casabella, (June 1996): 58-77 (bilingual).
Selected Honors
George Sarton Medal in the History of Science, University of Ghent, Belgium, for Dominion of the Eye (1997) and Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion. 2012.
Induction into American Academy of Arts and Science, 2013.
Awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Renaissance Scholarship, by Harvard University’s Villa I Tatti, 2015 (Prize to be conferred in May 2016).
Architecture, Urbanism, and the Arts in Honor of Marvin Trachtenberg, Five Sessions at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, 31 March-2 April 2016: Urban Space, Medieval Time; Assessing Roman Juxtapositions; Building Time Outside Italy; Slow Art History; Paradigms Reconsidered. Chair of organizing committee: Areli Marina, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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