Researchers
Elizabeth Merrill
Elizabeth Merrill (°1985) specialises in early modern Italian architecture, with a research focus on architectural practices, and the means by which architects communicated building designs. She studied at Columbia University (New York) and the University of Virginia (Charlottesville) and held postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) and the Warburg Institute (London). She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC project “Copying as Common Practice in Early Modern European Architecture” (2023-2028).
Anna Rebecca Sartore
Anna Rebecca Sartore is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University, working on the ERC-funded project Copying as Common Practice in Early Modern Architecture. Her research 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.
Agnes Kooijman
Agnes Kooijman specialises in the dissemination of architectural knowledge in the Low Countries. She is a doctoral candidate at Ghent University, researching architectural drawing books and albums from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Low Countries. Her work forms part of the European Research Council-funded project Copying as Common Practice in Early Modern Architecture (CCPEMA), with additional support from Utrecht University. She also serves as a committee member of UNESCO’s Memory of the World program.
Copying as Common Practice in Early Modern Architecture 