Professor Guido Rebecchini

Associate Dean for Students (2019-2021) and Professor of Sixteenth-Century Southern European Art

Having read History of Art at the Universit脿 degli Studi di Roma 鈥淟a Sapienza鈥, I then moved to the Universit脿 degli Studi di Siena, where I was awarded a MA degree on the 鈥楾radizione dell鈥橝ntico nel Medioevo e nel Rinascimento鈥. In 2000, I have completed my PhD at the Warburg Institute and have subsequently taught at the Universit脿 di Siena (2001-2009) and at the聽study-abroad centres in Florence of New York University and Syracuse University聽 (2010-2012). In September 2013, I have joined The 91制片厂, where I am now Professor in Renaissance and Early Modern Art. I have been Associate Dean for Students (2019-2021) and am currently Head of the Research Degree.聽

In my research, I have pursued three main strands: the first focuses on the court of Mantua. Using a wealth of unpublished documents, including correspondence, contracts and inventories, my studies have shed light on previously unexplored aspects of the Gonzaga patronage and collecting, and on the artistic interests of the Mantuan elites. Moreover, I have published extensively on Giulio Romano and especially on his role as designer of sculpture and silverware.

The second strand of my research focuses on Medicean Florence. In particular, I have contributed to deconstruct the sixteenth-century historiography on the Medici family unveiling internal fractures and how art was used to forge a narrative of dynastic and political legitimacy. My most recent article in I Tatti Studies investigates the fraught transmission of the Medici inheritance, which I interpret as a means of crafting a dynastic identity and displaying political power.

Finally, the third strand of my research examines on the role played by Pope Paull III Farnese in the renewal of Rome after the devastating Sack of 1527. My study explores the multi-layered strategies adopted by the pope to refashion a city, including ephemeral and permanent interventions in the urban fabric.

Currently, I am developing a new long-term project on artisanal practices in sixteenth-century Europe.

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Teaching 2022-23

  • MA History聽of Art:聽Continuity and Innovation: Reframing Italian Renaissance Art from Masaccio to Michelangelo (飞颈迟丑听Dr Scott Nethersole, Dr Irene Brooke, and Dr Barbara Furlotti)
  • BA1 Varieties of Renaissance Art

Teaching 2021-22

  • MA History聽of Art:聽Continuity and Innovation: Reframing Italian Renaissance Art from Masaccio to Michelangelo (飞颈迟丑听Dr Scott Nethersole, Dr Irene Brooke, and Dr Barbara Furlotti)
  • BA3 Special Option: Inventing Michelangelo: Disegno, Painting, Sculpture and the Myth of the Artist

Teaching 2020-21

  • MA History聽of Art:聽Continuity and Innovation: Reframing Italian Renaissance Art from Masaccio to Michelangelo (飞颈迟丑听Dr Scott Nethersole, Dr Irene Brooke, and Dr Barbara Furlotti)
  • BA3 Special Option: Inventing Michelangelo: Disegno, Painting, Sculpture and the Myth of the Artist

Teaching 2019-20

  • MA History聽of Art:聽Continuity and Innovation: Reframing Italian Renaissance Art from Masaccio to Michelangelo (飞颈迟丑听Dr Scott Nethersole,听Dr Barbara Furlotti听补苍诲听Dr Irene Brooke
  • BA3 Special Option: Inventing Michelangelo: Disegno, Painting, Sculpture and the Myth of the Artist

Teaching 2018-19

Teaching 2017-18

Teaching 2016-17

  • BA2 Constellations: Questioning the Italian Renaissance:聽Art in Italy from 1470 to 1527 (飞颈迟丑听)
  • BA3 Special Option: Inventing Michelangelo: Disegno, Painting, Sculpture and the Myth of the Artist
  • MA History聽of Art:聽Continuity and Innovation: Reframing Italian Renaissance Art from Masaccio to Michelangelo (飞颈迟丑听,听听补苍诲听)

PhD Supervision

Current

  • Grant Lewis, The Patronage of the Loredan family in early-sixteenth century Venice (on suspension 2022-2024)
  • Marco Mansi, Sixteenth-Century Florentine sketchbooks of landscape drawings
  • Julia von Zandvoort, The production of tapestry for Italian patrons in sixteenth-century Antwerp
  • Anna Chiara Giusa, Artistic patronage at Messina in the sixteenth century
  • Jasmine Clark, 鈥Anticamente moderni e modernamente antichi: sixteenth-century Italian designs for silver vessels and dishes鈥 (Part-Time)

Completed

  • Adriana Concin, “The Habsburg-Medici Wedding of 1565: Art, Diplomacy and Display” (2021)
  • , 鈥楧ecorating Chapels: Networks of Family Patronage in Late Fifteenth-Century Bologna. Between Private Piety and Political Self-definition鈥, co-supervised with Dr Nicolas Bock (Universit茅 de Lausanne) (2020)
  • , 鈥楽ymbolic images and the Production of Knowledge: Achille Bocchi, Ulisse Aldrovandi and Academic Networks in Sixteenth-Century Bologna鈥 (2018)
  • , 鈥楴icoletto da Modena and the Centres of Early Italian Print Production 1490-1530鈥, co-supervised with Dr Scott Nethersole (2019)

Research interests

  • Sixteenth-century Italian art, politics and urbanism, especially in Rome
  • Courtly art and culture, with a focus on Mantua
  • Medicean Florence
  • Giulio Romano
  • History of collecting and antiquarian studies
  • Drawing, design, disegno
  • Techniques and materials

Recent publications

Giulio Romano. La forza delle cose, exh. cat., eds. B. Furlotti and G. Rebecchini with the collaboration of A. Geremicca, Mantua, Palazzo Te, 8 October 2022-8 January 2023, Venice, Marsilio, 2022.

The Art of Experiment: Parmigianino at the 91制片厂, exh. cat., eds. K. Gottardo and G. Rebecchini, London, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2022.

The Art of Experiment: Parmigianino at The 91制片厂

The Rome of Paul III (1534-1549): Art Ritual and Urban Renewal, Turnhout, Harvey Miller Publishing, 2020.

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9781912554430-1

Giulio Romano: Art and Desire, exhibition catalogue, eds. Barbara Furlotti, Guido Rebecchini and Linda Wolk-Simon, Mantua, Palazzo Te, 6 October 2019-6 January 2020, Milan, Electa, 2019. Italian edition:聽Giulio Romano. Arte e desiderio, Milan, Electa, 2019.

Books, essays, articles and reviews

Mantua, collecting and Giulio Romano

  • 鈥淎 Bronze Roundel for the Mantuan Court: Towards an Oeuvre of Gian Marco Cavalli鈥, The Burlington Magazine, CLXIII, September 2021, pp. 798-805.
  • 鈥淯n鈥檃mica di Isabella d鈥橢ste: Margherita Cantelmi, il suo studiolo e il monastero di Santa Maria della Presentazione al Tempio鈥, in Itinera chartarum. 150 anni dell鈥橝rchivio di Stato di Mantova. Saggi in onore di Daniela Ferrari, eds. Roberta Piccinelli, Deanna Shemek, Luisa Onesta Tamassia, Milan, Silvana editoriale, 2019, pp. 343-347.
  • 鈥淐harles I鈥檚 Visit to Madrid鈥, in Charles I: King and Collector, exh. cat., eds. Per Rumberg and Desmond Shawe-Taylor, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2018, 50-53.
  • Co-authored with Barbara Furlotti (50%) 鈥溾橰are and Unique in This World鈥: Mantegna鈥檚 鈥楾riumph鈥 and the Gonzaga Collection鈥, in Charles I: King and Collector, exh. cat., eds. Per Rumberg and Desmond Shawe-Taylor, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2018, 54-59.
  • 鈥淎gostino Veneziano鈥檚 Suite of Three Women with Ancient Vases鈥,听Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 92, 2016, 2, special issue:聽Investigating Marcantonio Raimondi, ed.聽E. Wouk, pp. 129-144.
  • Guido Rebecchini and Edward Wouk, 鈥Biographical Notes on Marcantonio Raimondi and the publisher Il Baviera鈥, Edward Wouk (ed.),听Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael and the Image Multiplied, exhib. cat., Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2016, pp. 12-15.
  • Evidence: Inventories鈥, in聽The Display of Art in the Long Renaissance, ed. G. Feigenbaum, Los Angeles, Getty Publications, 2014, pp. 27-28.
  • 鈥楶ietro Bembo e Baldassarre Castiglione: teorici dell鈥檃rte e collezionisti鈥, in聽Pietro Bembo e le arti, conference proceedings, eds. G. Beltramini, H. Burns and D. Gasparotto, Venice, Marsilio, 2013, pp. 257-266.
  • 鈥楪iulio Romano e la produzione di argenti per Ferrante ed Ercole Gonzaga鈥, in聽Prospettiva, 146, 2012, pp. 32-43.
  • 鈥楲e biblioteche di Battista Fiera e Giovan Benedetto Lampridio鈥,听Civilt脿 mantovana, 134, 2012, special issue: Scritti in memoria di Clifford Malcolm Brown, eds P. Tosetti Grandi and A.M. Lorenzoni, Mantua, Il Bulino, 2012, pp. 109-124.
  • 鈥楶ortraits by Objects. Three 鈥楽tudioli鈥 in Sixteenth-Century Mantua鈥, in聽Mantova e il Rinascimento italiano: saggi in onore di David S. Chambers, eds P. Jackson and G. Rebecchini, Mantua, Sometti, 2011, pp. 77-94.
  • (with Dr Barbara Furlotti),听The Art and Architecture of Mantua. Eight Centuries of Patronage and Collecting, London, Thames and Hudson, 2008. (Other editions: Il聽Rinascimento a Mantova, Florence, Giunti, 2008;聽The Art of Mantua. Art and Patronage in the Renaissance, Los Angeles, Getty Publications, 2008; L鈥橝rt 脿 Mantoue, Paris, Hazan, 2008).
  • 鈥業 committenti dell鈥橝ntico tra modelli romani e classicismo lombardo鈥, in聽Bonacolsi l鈥橝ntico. Uno scultore nella Mantova di Andrea Mantegna e di Isabella d鈥橢ste, exhib. cat., eds D. Gasparotto and F. Trevisani, Milan, Electa, 2008, pp. 36-43.
  • 鈥楺ualche precisazione e un punto fermo per Ippolito Costa (1506-1535)鈥,听Prospettiva, 128, 2007, pp. 58-61.
  • 鈥楽culture e scultori nella Mantova di Giulio Romano. 2. Giovan Battista Scultori e il monumento di Girolamo Andreasi (con una precisazione per Prospero Clemente)鈥,听Prospettiva, 110-111, 2003, pp. 130-139.
  • 鈥淪ome Aspects of Cardinal Sigismondo Gonzaga鈥檚 Collections鈥,听The Journal of the Warburg and 91制片厂 Institutes, 66, 2003, pp. 289-296.
  • Private Collectors in Mantua.聽1500-1630, Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2002.
  • 鈥楽culture e scultori nella Mantova di Giulio Romano. 1. Bernardino Germani e il sepolcro di Pietro Strozzi (con il cognome di Giovan Battista Scultori)鈥,听Prospettiva, 108, 2002, pp. 65-79.
  • 鈥楨xchanges of Works of Art at the Court of Federico II Gonzaga with an Appendix on Flemish Art鈥, special issue: Art and Culture in Renaissance Mantua, ed. Molly Bourne,听Renaissance Studies, 16, 2002, pp. 381-391.
  • 鈥楲a corte e la citt脿. Scambi e interferenze tra collezionisti privati mantovani e i Gonzaga鈥,in聽Gonzaga. La Celeste Galeria. Le raccolte, exhib. cat., ed. R. Morselli, Milan 2002, pp. 620-642.
  • 鈥楩urther Evidence on the Books of Baldassarre Castiglione鈥,听Journal of the Warburg and 91制片厂 Institutes, 63, 2000, pp. 271-276.
  • 鈥楾he Book Collection and Other Possessions of Baldassarre Castiglione鈥,听Journal of the Warburg and 91制片厂 Institutes, 61, 1998, pp. 17-52.
  • 鈥楥astiglione and Erasmus. Towards a Reconciliation?鈥,听Journal of the Warburg and 91制片厂 Institutes, 61, 1998, pp. 258-260.
  • 鈥楴ew Light on Two 鈥淰enuses鈥 by Correggio鈥,听Journal of the Warburg and 91制片厂 Institutes, 60, 1997, pp. 272-275.
  • 鈥楾iziano e Mantova: la Cena in Emmaus per Nicola Maffei鈥,听Venezia Cinquecento, 10, 1995, pp. 41-68.

Florence and the Medici

  • 鈥淒ynastic Conflicts and European Politics in the Transmission of the Medici Inheritance鈥, I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, XXV, 1, 2022, pp. 133-165.
  • 鈥楲es d茅buts de Jean Du Bellay 脿 Rome, la cour d鈥橦ippolyte de M茅dicis et le r么le de Giovan francesco Valier鈥, in聽Le cardinal Jean Du Bellay . Diplomatie et culture dans l鈥橢urope de la Renaissance, eds. C. Michon and L. Petris, (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2014) pp. 269-281.
  • 鈥楲a politica dello stile: il giovane Vasari e la cerchia di Ippolito de鈥 Medici鈥, in聽Giorgio Vasari e il cantiere delle Vite del 1550, conference proceedings, eds. B. Agosti and S. Ginzburg, (Venice: Marsilio, 2013), pp. 13-27.
  • 鈥楤eyond Florence鈥檚 walls. A List of Evaluations of Buildings to Be Demolished in 1529-1530鈥,听Getty Research Journal, 3, 2011, pp. 165-170.
  • 芦Un altro Lorenzo禄. Il cardinale Ippolito de鈥 Medici tra Firenze e Roma聽(1510-1535), Venice, Marsilio, 2010.
  • Le ville dei Medici da Firenze a Roma, Rome, Istituto poligrafico dello Stato, 2008.
  • 鈥楩onti mantovane sul conflitto fra Alessandro de鈥 Medici e i fuoriusciti fiorentini durante la visita a Napoli di Carlo V nel 1536鈥,听Archivio Storico Italiano, 577, 1999, pp. 517-528.

Rome, visual culture and urbanism

  • 鈥淧aolo III e l鈥檕fficina delle arti a Roma鈥, in I Farnese. Architettura, arte, potere, exhib. cat., ed. Simone Verde, Milan, Electa, 2022, pp. 48-53.
  • 鈥淟鈥檈ntr茅e triomphale de Paul III 脿 Rome en 1538. Politique, identit茅 et r茅novation urbaine鈥, in La Cour en f锚te dans l鈥橢urope des Valois, eds. Oriane Beaufils and Luisa Capodieci, Tours, Presses universitaires Fran莽ois-Rabelais, 2022, pp. 34-36.
  • 鈥楽pace, Memory and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Rome鈥, I聽Tatti Studies: Studies in The Italian Renaissance, special issue: Street Life, Street Culture, eds. G. Clarke and F. Nevola, 16, 1-2, 2013, pp. 153-179.
  • 鈥楩or Pleasure and for Entertainment: A Rustic Fountain in Sixteenth-Century Rome and a Project by Giovanni Mangone鈥, in聽Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors, eds M. Isra毛ls and L.A. Waldman, Milan, Officina Libraria, 2013, pp. 463-473.
  • 鈥楳ichelangelo e le mura di Roma鈥, in聽Michelangelo architetto a Roma disegni della Casa Buonarroti di Firenze, exhib. cat., eds M. Mussolin and P. Ragionieri, Cinisello Balsamo (Mi), Silvana editoriale, 2009, pp. 106-110.
  • (Co-edited with Fabrizio Nevola),听Urban History, 37, 2010, 1, special issue: Locating Communities in the Early Modern Italian City.
  • 鈥楢fter the Medici: The New Rome of Pope Paul III Farnese鈥,听I Tatti Studies, 11, 2008, pp. 147-200.
  • 鈥楪iovan Francesco Arrivabene a Roma nel 1550. Una nuova descrizione del giardino del cardinale Federico Cesi鈥,听Pegasus. Berliner Beitr盲ge zum Nachleben der Antike (Bulletin of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance, Humboldt-Universit盲t zu Berlin), 2, 2000, pp. 41-60.

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