Cammy Brothers
B.A., Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, 1991 Associate Professor, Italian Renaissance Architecture Cammy Brothers specializes in Italian Renaissance Architecture. Her Ph.D. thesis, “Drawing from Memory: Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome,” considered issues of representation, antiquarianism, and the relation between early archaeology and architecture. Other research concerns artistic exchange around the Mediterranean, with a special focus on al-Andalus; fifteenth and sixteenth-century theories of architecture and literature; and interaction between the practices of painting, architecture and sculpture. Her publications include “The Renaissance Reception of the Alhambra: The Letters of Andrea Navagero and the Palace of Charles V,” Muqarnas 11 (1994); “Architecture, Texts and Imitation in Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth-Century Rome,” in Architecture and Language, ed. G. Clarke and P. Crossley (Cambridge University Press, 2000); “Drawing Ancient Rome in the Letter to Leo X and in Sixteenth-Century Practice,” in Coming About...A Festschrift for John Shearman, ed. L. R. Jones and L. C. Matthew (Harvard University Art Museums, 2002); and “Reconstruction as Design: Giuliano da Sangallo and the ‘palazo di mecenate’ on the Quirinal Hill” Annali di architettura 2002. She has been a Fulbright Fellow at the Courtauld Institute in London (1991-92), a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome (1996-97), a Fellow of the Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies (2001-02), and a fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (2006). She has recently completed a book, Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture, (forthcoming, Yale University Press, 2007). She is currently a Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, researching a project on “Mediterranean Landscapes.”
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