RAVE: Dario Donetti

RAVE: Dario Donetti

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Add to Calendar 2021-01-22 12:00:00 2021-01-22 13:30:00 RAVE: Dario Donetti “Migrating Inventions: Brunelleschi's Dome and the East” Dario Donetti, Collegiate Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Contemporary Architecture Respondent: Persis Berlekamp, Associate Professor of Art History and the College, Affiliated Faculty in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Dario Donetti (Collegiate Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Contemporary Architecture) is a historian of Renaissance and contemporary architecture. His research aims to understand the interdependence between graphic experiments and conceptual achievements in design practice, as well as to investigate the role of draftsmanship in architectural production, with a focus on issues of authorship and materiality. He is co-author of Giuliano da Sangallo: Disegni degli Uffizi (2017), author of Francesco da Sangallo e l’identità dell’architettura toscana (2020), and editor of Architecture and Dystopia (2019) and Building with Paper: The Materiality of Renaissance Architectural Drawings (forthcoming from Brepols: 2021, with Cara Rachele). (See full bio) Persis Berlekamp (Associate Professor of Art History and the College, Affiliated Faculty in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) studies the roles the visual arts played within the major cultural and intellectual debates of the late medieval Islamic world (13th-15th centuries). Berlekamp is the author of Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam (Yale University Press, 2011), an analysis of illustrated Arabic and Persian wonders-of-creation manuscripts produced in the wake of the Mongol Conquests of Iran and Iraq. This was a Choice Outstanding Academic 2012 Title for Art and Architecture and was reviewed in The Art Newspaper, The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, West 86th, The Journal of Islamic Studies, and Osmanlı Araştırmaları. Berlekamp’s current book project, Petrified Powers: Medieval Islamic Talismans analyzes medieval Islamic "talismans," an English word deriving in part from the Arabic "tilasm" and its Persian and Turkish cognates. (See full bio)   Zoom Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public

“Migrating Inventions: Brunelleschi's Dome and the East”

Dario Donetti, Collegiate Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Contemporary Architecture

Respondent: Persis Berlekamp, Associate Professor of Art History and the College, Affiliated Faculty in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Dario Donetti (Collegiate Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Contemporary Architecture) is a historian of Renaissance and contemporary architecture. His research aims to understand the interdependence between graphic experiments and conceptual achievements in design practice, as well as to investigate the role of draftsmanship in architectural production, with a focus on issues of authorship and materiality. He is co-author of Giuliano da Sangallo: Disegni degli Uffizi (2017), author of Francesco da Sangallo e l’identità dell’architettura toscana (2020), and editor of Architecture and Dystopia (2019) and Building with Paper: The Materiality of Renaissance Architectural Drawings (forthcoming from Brepols: 2021, with Cara Rachele). (See full bio)

Persis Berlekamp (Associate Professor of Art History and the College, Affiliated Faculty in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) studies the roles the visual arts played within the major cultural and intellectual debates of the late medieval Islamic world (13th-15th centuries). Berlekamp is the author of Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam (Yale University Press, 2011), an analysis of illustrated Arabic and Persian wonders-of-creation manuscripts produced in the wake of the Mongol Conquests of Iran and Iraq. This was a Choice Outstanding Academic 2012 Title for Art and Architecture and was reviewed in The Art Newspaper, The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, West 86th, The Journal of Islamic Studies, and Osmanlı Araştırmaları. Berlekamp’s current book project, Petrified Powers: Medieval Islamic Talismans analyzes medieval Islamic "talismans," an English word deriving in part from the Arabic "tilasm" and its Persian and Turkish cognates. (See full bio)