Joseph Connors

Joseph Connors, the Director of the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence, writes on Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture. He was formerly Director of the American Academy in Rome and professor of art history at Columbia.

From the Review

February 24, 2005: A Scandal in Etruria

The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery by Ingrid D. Rowland

September 20, 2001: The Lion of Florence

Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance by Anthony Grafton

On Alberti and the Art of Building by Robert Tavernor

September 24, 1998: The Way to Grant's Tomb

The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture by Joseph Rykwert

February 16, 1995: 'The Seated Sublime'

Italian Renaissance Architecture: Brunelleschi, Sangallo, Michelangelo—The Cathedrals of Florence and Pavia, and St. Peter's, Rome 1994 The National Gallery, Washington, DC, December 18, 1994–March 19, 1995 an exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, April 1–November 6,

The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture edited by Henry A. Millon, edited by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani

The Architectural Drawings of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and His Circle Vol. 1: Fortifications, Machines, and Festival Architecture edited by Christoph L. Frommel, edited by Nicholas Adams

San Pietro. Un progetto e un modello. Storia e restauro. Santa Maria del Fiore. Quattro modelli per il tamburo della cupola edited by Pier Luigi Silvan

Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Genius as Entrepreneur by William E. Wallace

Michelangelo Architect by Giulio Carlo Argan, by Bruno Contardi, translated by Marion L. Grayson

Leon Battista Alberti 10–December 11, 1994 catalog of the exhibition at the Palazzo del Te, Mantua, September, edited by Joseph Rykwert, edited by Anne Engel

December 17, 1992: Playing the Palace

Seventeenth-Century Roman Palaces: Use and the Art of the Plan by Patricia Waddy

Images of Nepotism: The Painted Ceilings of Palazzo Barberini by John Beldon Scott

April 12, 1990: Marble and Marzipan

Roman Baroque Sculpture: The Industry of Art by Jennifer Montagu

From New York Review Books

Born Under Saturn A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a "delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution."