Guido Beltramini Explained

Guido Beltramini (born in Schio (Vicenza), April 28, 1961) is an Italian architectural historian and a curator.

Biography

Guido Beltramini has been Director of the in Vicenza, Italy since 1991 and he has been Director of the Palladio Museum since its foundation in 2012. He is an expert in Renaissance architecture, especially the work of Andrea Palladio and his followers, and has published widely on these subjects. He has also curated several exhibitions, which in recent years have also been a means of further developing his Renaissance studies and in particular the network of relations between writers and artists.

In 2008 he has been Craig Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow at Villa I Tatti, Florence; in 2009-2010 Kress Foundation Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University,[1] New York, and in 2011 Mellon Senior Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal.[2] Beltramini has taught as visiting professor at the University of Ferrara and University of Milan, and in 2017 he has been Andrew W. Mellon Inaugural Visiting Professor at the V&A Research Institute and Royal College PhD program "History of Design". In 2015 - 2020 he has been visiting lecturer at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambdridge (Mass.),[3] Since 2015 he has been member of the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Centre for Architecture[4] and since 2012 member of the International Advisory Panel of Architectural History. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.Since 2022 he has been member of the Faculty of Architecture of the British School at Rome (https://bsr.ac.uk/).

Selected publications

In addition to numerous papers and articles, the principal books he has written or co-edited include:

Exhibitions

Beltramini has curated exhibitions for the Palladio Museum in Vicenza; the Venice Architecture Biennale; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; the Morgan Library and Museum, New York; the National Building Museum, Washington; and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. He has recently completed a trilogy of Renaissance exhibitions: Pietro Bembo e l’invenzione del Rinascimento, 2013 (with D. Gasparotto and A. Tura, Padua, Palazzo del Monte di Pietà),[6] Aldo Manuzio. Il rinascimento di Venezia, 2016 (with D. Gasparotto, Venice, Gallerie dell'Accademia),[7] and Cosa vedeva Ariosto quando chiudeva gli occhi, 2016–17 (Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti).[8]

Selected exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Guido Beltramini | Italian Academy for Advanced Studies - Columbia University. italianacademy.columbia.edu. 2017-09-08.
  2. Web site: Guido Beltramini, Mellon Senior Fellow 2011. Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). cca.qc.ca. 2017-09-08.
  3. Web site: Buildings, Texts, and Contexts Lecture: Guido Beltramini, "Four Objects" (IV) | Harvard College. college.harvard.edu. 2017-09-08. 2017-09-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20170909005540/https://college.harvard.edu/college-events/buildings-texts-and-contexts-lecture-guido-beltramini-four-objects-iv. dead.
  4. Web site: CCA Board of Trustees. Canadian Centre for Architecture.
  5. News: How Jefferson Learned Architecture. The New York Times . 2 December 2015 . 2017-09-09 . Povoledo . Elisabetta .
  6. Web site: Pietro Bembo e l'invenzione del Rinascimento :: Palladio Museum. palladiomuseum.org. 2017-09-08.
  7. Web site: Aldo Manuzio. Il Rinascimento di Venezia | Gallerie dell'Accademia | Venezia. gallerieaccademia.org. 2017-09-08.
  8. Web site: Palazzo dei Diamanti - Orlando furioso 500 anni. palazzodiamanti.it. 2017-09-08.

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