Elizabeth Merrill
Elizabeth Merrill (Ph.D. Art and Architectural History, University of Virginia) specializes in early modern Italian architecture, with a focus on design practices. Much of her research centres on the Sienese architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439-1501) and the artistic and technical culture of fifteenth-century Italy. She is Associate Professor in the History, Theory and Criticism of Early Modern Architecture at Ghent University (Belgium) and the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project “Copying as Common Practice in Early Modern European Architecture.”
Anna Rebecca Sartore
Anna Rebecca Sartore (Ph.D. Art and Architectural History, University of Udine) specializes in the architectural history of early modern central Italy (Tuscany, Umbria, and Marche). In 2022, she curated an exhibition at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, dedicated to the Libro Capponi, a collection of Renaissance architectural drawings by Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and his workshop, which she discovered in 2018. Since 2022 she is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Ghent University.
Agnes Kooijman
Agnes Kooijman (M.A. Art History, University of Utrecht) is an art and architectural historian with a research focus on the dissemination of architectural knowledge in the Low Countries. Her doctoral research examines Dutch architectural drawing books and albums from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Alongside her research, she serves as a committee member of UNESCO’s Memory of the World program.
Copying as Common Practice in Early Modern Architecture 