LecturerPhone: 618/453-8633
Email: baldasso@siu.edu
Office location: Allyn Building 7B
Trained in Art History and History of Science, Renzo Baldasso is a historian of Renaissance and Baroque art. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 2007 and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Newberry Library, and the Smithsonian Institution. He has diverse and interdisciplinary research interests, including art theory, naturalism, early prints and the relationship between art and science. Currently he is working on a monograph on the emergence of the visuality of the printed page during the incunabular period. Upon completing it, he will return to his doctoral research, and his second book will present a history of the diagrammatic representation and visual thinking in the early stages of the Scientific Revolution. At SIUC he teaches courses on medieval and Renaissance art and on the history of the book.
He has published several articles in edited collections and journals, including The Art Bulletin, Arte Lombarda, Centaurus and Aurora.
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