Curriculum vitae
Education
PhD, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, 1983
Dissertation: Alessandro Sforza and Pesaro: A Study in Urbanism and Architectural Patronage
MFA, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, 1975
MA, Department of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, 1973
BA, Department of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, 1971
Languages
English, Italian, German
Fellowships
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, December 1997 – February 1998
Villa I Tatti Fellowship, Florence, 1982 – 1983
Renaissance Society of America, Summer Workshop in Paleography, Florence, 1978
Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship, Princeton University, 1973 – 1977
University of British Columbia Graduate Fellowship, Florence, 1972 – 1973
Canada Council Arts Bursary for restoration of paintings, Florence, 1972 – 1973
Professional positions
Senior Research Associate for the Italian Architectural Drawings Photograph Collection (IADPC), CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1988 – 2004
Editor for RILA/ITA, Florence, 1984 – 1988
Research assistant to Joseph Alsop for the book The Rare Art Traditions, Florence, 1979 – 1981
Research assistant to Ulrich Middeldorf, Florence, 1979 – 1981
Lecturer in Renaissance and Baroque architecture, and Baroque sculpture, British Institute, Florence, 1980
Teaching assistant in Renaissance art and architecture, University of British Columbia, 1971 – 1972
Related activities
On board of directors of Garden City Conservation Society: 2019 – present
Columnist for the Richmond News: 2011 – present
Translator (books, essays, catalogue entries from German and Italian into English for Villa I Tatti; Yale University Press; Getty Research Institute; Architectural History Foundation; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Bruschettini Foundation for Islamic and Asian Art; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University; Museo Civico, Urbania): 2008 – present
Travel and leisure writer for The Florentine: 2005 – 2008
Consultant for McRae Books, Florence, on Uncovering History: Daily Life in Renaissance Times, 2004
Participant in the BBC documentary Aberglasney: A Garden Lost in Time, 1999
Member of consulting committee for the conference Villa Gamberaia: incontri e prospettive, Florence, 1999
Member of coordinating committee for the conference I Della Rovere nell’Italia delle corti, 1997 – 1999
Member of scientific committee for the exhibition The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture, Venice, 1990 – 1994
Member of editorial board of Studi di Storia dell’Arte: 1989 – 2008
Editor (copy editing; stylistic and structural editing; proofreading): 1981 – present.
Academic honours
Corresponding member, Accademia Raffaello, Urbino
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