Lorenzo Vigotti, Ph.D.

Pupilli Founder and PI

Department of the Arts, University of Bologna

Lorenzo Vigotti is an architect and architectural historian, and currently the recipient of a NEH grant for his Pupilli project in the federated project Florence Illuminated: Visualizing the History of Art, Architecture, and Society. His second project, DOMES, has received 3-year Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Union to explore the circulation of architectural knowledge between medieval Persia and Italy, specifically the materiality and the problems of preservation of Medieval brick-dome structures. As senior fellow at the Medici Archive Project, he oversaw the virtual reconstruction of the now lost Florentine ghetto for the exhibition at the Uffizi in 2023.
Lorenzo received a M.Arch. from the University of Florence, Italy, and a Ph.D. in architectural history from Columbia University; he has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the NEH, the Kress and Mellon Foundations, the Society of the Architectural Historians, and the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio. He taught courses on Western architecture and urban planning at Columbia, NYU, Stanford University in Florence, Pratt Institute, University of Utah, Union College, and University of Bologna. Contact him at lorenzo.vigotti[at]unibo.it.

Prof. George Bent

Sydney Gause Childress Professor of the Arts

Washington & Lee University

George R. Bent received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Oberlin College in 1985 and his Ph.D in Art History from Stanford University in 1993. He came to Washington and Lee University in that year and has been a member of the faculty ever since. Bent teaches courses in Medieval and Renaissance art history, and specializes in fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century Italian art and culture. A two-time holder of Fulbright grants to Italy, he has written about artistic production, the function of liturgical images, and institutional patronage in early Renaissance Florence. He addressed these subjects in his book Monastic Art in Lorenzo Monaco’s Florence (published in 2006) and in his DVD lecture series, Leonardo da Vinci and the Italian High Renaissance, produced by the Great Courses Company in 2012. He then focused his scholarly attention on the subject of art for common viewers in late Medieval Florence between 1280 and 1430: his book on this material, Public Painting and Visual Culture in Early Republican Florence was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. He founded the DH project Florence As It Was and has generously provided the 3D scans for many of the Florentine palaces of the Pupilli project.

Vieri Mazzoni, Ph.D.

Paleographer

Dr. Vieri Mazzoni, (Ph.D. in Medieval History, University of Florence) serves as chief paleographer for the Pupilli Project. Dr. Mazzoni is an independent scholar, highly specialized in paleography, codicology, and archival materials and has the essential skills for the task including knowledge of old Italian and Latin. He is the author of a number of books and articles on the history of Tuscany during the Middle Ages, such as San Miniato al Tedesco, una terra toscana nell’età dei comuni (Pacini, 2017), Accusare e prescrivere il nemico politico, legislazione antighibellina e persecuzione giudiziaria a Firenze 1347-78 (Pacini, 2010). He is the editor of Ser Giovanni di Lemmo Armaleoni da Comugnori’s Diario (1299-1319), published by Olschki in 2008. In 2002 he collaborated with BISLAM (BISLAM. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Latinorum Medii Recentiorisque Aevi. Repertory of Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Authors.), a database of medieval authors writing in Latin.

Arch. Emilano Sborgia

Digital architect

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