Guido Beltramini

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

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Biography

Guido Beltramini has been Director of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio  [ it ] 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". Since 2015 he has been visiting professor 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.

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

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