Prof Laura Moretti
Head of the School of Art History
Professor of Art and Architectural History
Research areas
Laura Moretti took her undergraduate degree in architecture and also holds a professional performance diploma in violoncello. She has a PhD in architectural history, and has been working for several years on the relationship between architecture and music. She has held prestigious post-doctoral and research positions (Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge, 2005-07; Worcester College, University of Oxford, 2007-10; Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2010 and 2014-15).
In 2005-08 she participated in the project 'Architecture and Music in Renaissance Venice' led by Professor Deborah Howard at the University of Cambridge. In 2014-16 she has been the co-ordinator of the International Network ‘Daniele Barbaro (1514-70): In and Beyond the Text’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. In 2016-20 she co-directed, with Daryl Green (Edinburgh University Library, Centre for Research Collections), the research and impact project ‘Thinking 3D’. She has curated and co-curated several exhibitions and organised events in Italy and UK related to these projects, including Thinking 3D from Leonardo to the present at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford. In 2021-22 she worked on the project 'Object history and museum display. The adventurous life of the Berlin "Adorante"', thanks to a Leverhulme Trust International Fellowship.
She is the author of In the House of the Muses: Collection, Display, and Performance in the Veronese Palace of Mario Bevilacqua (1536-93), Turnhout: Brepols; London: Harvey Miller, 2020; Dagli Incurabili alla Pietà. Le chiese degli Ospedali Grandi veneziani tra architettura e musica (1522-1790), Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2008, and the joint author (with Deborah Howard) of Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice. Architecture, Music, Acoustics, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. She is the co-editor of Daniele Barbaro 1514-1570. Vénitien, patricien, humaniste, Turnhout: Brepols, 2017 (with Pierre Caye, Frédérique Lemerle and Vasco Zara); Daniele Barbaro (1514-70). Letteratura, scienza e arti nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Cornuda (Treviso): Antiga, 2015 (with Susy Marcon), La chiesa e l’ospedale di San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti. Arte, beneficenza, cura, devozione, educazione, Venice: Marcianum Press, 2015 (with Alexandra Bamji and Linda Borean), The Music Room in Early Modern France and Italy: Sound, Space and Object, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 (with Deborah Howard), and Architettura e Musica nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2006 (with Deborah Howard).
She is currently working on a monograph provisionally entitled The adventurous life of the Betende Knabe. Her latest articles include ‘Gli inventari della “Casa dell’Orto”: Nuove Indagini sulla collezione di disegni e stampe di Niccolò Gaddi’, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 64/1 (2022): 68-99; ‘Tintoretto’s Louvre “Paradise” in Palazzo Bevilacqua, Verona’, The Burlington Magazine 162/1408 (2020): 570-578; ‘From the Vite or the Ritratti? Previously unknown portraits from Vasari’s Libro de’ Disegni,’ I Tatti Studies 21/1 (2018): 105-136 (co-authored with Sean Roberts), and ‘The palazzo, collections, and musical patronage of Niccolò Gaddi (1536-1591),’ Journal of the History of Collections 29/2 (2017): 189-207.
She would welcome research students with interests in any area of Italian art and architecture c.1450-1600.
PhD supervision
- Francesca Bisi
Selected publications
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Statue: 'Praying Boy' (“Adorante”) also known as 'Apollo'
Moretti, L., 1 Jan 2023, The museum of Renaissance music : a history in 100 exhibits. Borghetti, V. & Shephard, T. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 99-101 3 p. (Collection "Epitome musical").Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Gli inventari della “Casa dell’Orto”: nuove Indagini sulla collezione di disegni e stampe di Niccolò Gaddi
Moretti, L., 1 Dec 2022, In: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz. 64, 1, p. 69-100 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
On the market: buying and selling artworks in early modern Venice
Moretti, L., 1 Jan 2022, Market spaces, production sites, and sound landscape of European cities: from history to regeneration. Svalduz, E. (ed.). Padua: Padova University Press, p. 57-68 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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In the house of the muses: collection, display and performance in the Veronese Palace of Mario Bevilacqua (1536-93)
Moretti, L., Dec 2020, Brepols, Harvey Miller. 295 p. (In the Shadow of the Lion of St. Mark (HMSLSM); vol. 3)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Tintoretto's Louvre 'Paradise' in Palazzo Bevilacqua, Verona
Moretti, L., 1 Jul 2020, In: Burlington Magazine. 162, 1408, p. 570-578 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The History of Thinking 3D in Forty Books
Moretti, L. & Green, D., 2019, Thinking 3D. Books, Images and Ideas from Leonardo to the Present. Bodleian Library, p. 8-67Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
The Te Papa Endymion. A study on the subject of two sketches on a sheet attributed to Maarten van Heemskerck
Moretti, L., 29 May 2019, In: Tuhinga. 30, p. 5-28 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Thinking 3D. Books, Images, and Ideas from Leonardo to the Present
Green, D. (Editor) & Moretti, L. (Editor), Oct 2019, Oxford: Bodleian Library. 200 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Open access
From the Vite or the Ritratti? Previously unknown portraits from Vasari’s Libro de’ Disegni
Moretti, L. & Roberts, S., 11 May 2018, In: I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance. 21, 1, p. 105-136 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How the Barbaro brothers created the perfect Renaissance villa
Moretti, L., 2018, The British Academy.Research output: Other contribution