Francesca MatteiChercheuse invitée

Avril 2023

Francesca Mattei is associate professor in the History of Architecture at the University of Roma Tre in Rome. Her research focuses on the early modern architecture, with particular interest in Italy and, more recently, in European architecture. Particular areas of interest include the relationship among architecture, literature and religion; architectural treatises and drawings; the classic tradition, the reception of antique art and the knowledge of antique monuments in the Renaissance. Mattei’s scholarship has been funded, among others, by the Politecnico di Milano, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura A. Palladio, the Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali di Ferrara, the European Science Foundation Research Networking Programme PALATIUM.

Publications (selection)

Book and edited books

• I Gonzaga fuori Mantova. Architettura, relazioni, potere (with E. Garofalo), Roma, Viella 2022

• Architettura e committenza intorno ai Gonzaga. Modelli, strategie, intermediari, Roma, Campisano 2019   

• Federico II Gonzaga e le arti, ed. F. Mattei, Roma, Bulzoni, 2016

• Eterodossia e vitruvianesimo. Palazzo Naselli a Ferrara (1527-1538), Roma, Campisano 2013

Journal articles and book chapters

• Dopo Percier e Fontaine. Letture analitiche e comparate del Rinascimento romano all’École des Beaux-Arts, in “Studi e ricerche di storia dell’architettura”, 12, 2022, numero monografico a cura di J.P. Garric  – saggio in rivista di classe A (area 08)
• Architecture and Religion in Renaissance Palaces. Patronage, Humanism, and Reformation in Northern Italy, in Renaissance Religions, a cura di P. Howard, R. Saccenti, N. Terpstra, Turnhout, Brepols 2021, pp. 127-154 (collana Europa Sacra)
• La recherche d’une Renaissance mineure au XIXe siècle. Modèles et historiographie, in Architecture: invention et modèles, dir. J.P. Garric, collection HistoArt/HiCSA Éditions de la Sorbonne, Paris 2021, pp. 43-58
• Guillaume Budè et l’architecture, in Les Noces de Philologie et de Guillaume Budé, eds. C. Bénévent, R. Menini, L.A. Sanchi, Parigi 2019 (with F. Salatin) [forthcoming]
• Ephemeral and permanent architecture during the age of Ercole I d’Este in Ferrara (1471–1505), in Architectures of Festival: Fashioning and Re-Fashioning Urban and Courtly Space in Early Modern Europe, eds. J.R. Mulryne, K. De Jonge, P. Martens and R. Morris, London, Routledge, 2018, pp. 201-234   
• Un Vitruvio postillato alla Biblioteca Comunale Teresiana di Mantova, in “Arte Lombarda”, 173-174, 2015 (2016), pp. 52-76 (with F. Salatin)
• Un inedito di Girolamo da Carpi: il portale di palazzo Contughi e l'introduzione dell'opera rustica a Ferrara (1543), in "Annali di Architettura", 24, 2012, (2014), pp. 55-70
• L’archeologia tradita: i Propylaeen sulla Koenigsplatz di Leo von Klenze, in "la Rivista di engramma", 65, giugno-luglio 2008 www.engramma.it.