Isabella di Lenardo

Università Iuav di Venezia
Isabella di Lenardo is a scholar on Modern Art, Architectural and Urban History. Her research interests are focused on the production and circulation of artistic and architectural knowledge in Europe between Sixteenth and Eighteenth centuries with particular stress on North-South relationships and influences. Her Ph.D. thesis was on the network of Flemish and German merchants and artists between Italy and the ‘North, establishing their cultural exchanges, connections characters and pictorial iconographies. She has published essays and article about Venetian Art and Architecture during the ‘long’ Renaissance. Recently she has co-edited the book ‘La chiesa di San Bartolomeo e la comunita’ tedesca a Venezia (Venice 2013), essays about the presence of foreigners in Venice. She is a research fellow for the Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence. From 2011-2012 she was Adjunct professor of Urban History at IUAV. Recent publications: Carlo Helman: merchant, patron and collector in the Antwerp-Venice migrant network, in Artists on the Move: Migrating artists from the Low Countries, 1400-1750, “Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek”, n. 63 (forthcoming), L’oratorio dei tedeschi. Artisti oltramontani nella chiesa di San Bartolomeo, in La chiesa di San Bartolomeo e la comunita’ tedesca a Venezia (Venice 2013), From calle to insula: the case of Santa Maria della Carita’ in Venice, in “Citta’ e storia”, n.1, VIII, 2013, The Oltramontani Network in Venice: Hans von Aachen in context, in Hans von Aachen in context, (Prague 2012).