Dr. Anna Rebecca Sartore
Associate Scholar
Anna Rebecca Sartore is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University, working on the ERC-funded project Copying as Common Practice in Early Modern Architecture. Her research specializes in the architectural history of early modern central Italy (Tuscany, Umbria and Marche). In 2022, she curated an exhibition at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, dedicated to the Libro Capponi, a collection of Renaissance architectural drawings by Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and his workshop, which she discovered in 2018.
Sartore earned her PhD (University of Udine, 2017-2021) with a dissertation on the reception of Vitruvius’ De Architectura in Renaissance Italy, focusing on Giovan Battista Caporali’s 1536 Italian translation. Her research has led to a re-evaluation of Perugia’s urban fabric before the construction of the Rocca Paolina (1540). Her forthcoming book, Giovan Battista Caporali e l’architettura a Perugia nel Cinquecento will be published in Spring 2025. She is currently collaborating with Elizabeth Merrill on a critical edition of Francesco di Giorgio’s Opusculum de architectura (The British Museum, 197.b.21).
• Art and Architectural Patronage in central Italy from the Renaissance to Neoclassicism.
• 15th- and 16th-century architectural drawings after the Antique.
• 15th- and 16th-century books of architectural models and machines.
• Renaissance architectural treatises from Leon Battista Alberti onwards, especially translations and editions of Vitruvius.
• Palaces and villas from the early 15th century to the end of the 18th century in Tuscany, Umbria and Marche.
• Architectural design from the Renaissance to Neoclassicism.
• Italian Renaissance fortification in theory and practice.
• Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and the circle of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.
An Architecture of Machines: Francesco di Giorgio’s Opusculum de architectura & the praxis of Renaissance architecture