Associate Professor David Marshall
Associate Professor, Art History
Qualifications
PhD (La Trobe)
Biography
David Marshall's research interests focus on aspects of painting and architecture in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Italy, especially architecture, depictions of architecture, and ruin and topographical painting (Codazzi, Panini, Canaletto) on which he regularly provides advice for leading auction houses. He has published Viviano and Niccolo Codazzi and the Baroque Architectural Fantasy, Rome, Jandi Sapi, 1993. Current research projects include a book on the paintings of Giovanni Paolo Panini; a reconstruction and study of the furnishing and collections of the Villa Patrizi, Rome (1719-destroyed 1849). He also has research interests in garden design, antiquarianism, collecting and display, and connoisseurship. He regularly conducts research in archives in Rome. He is founder and editor of Melbourne Art Journal. He teaches undergraduate subjects on Renaissance and Baroque Rome 1450-1750 (taught in Rome); Visions of Paradise: Art of the Garden; The Age of Michelangelo; Baroque Art; Eighteenth-century Art; Attribution, Expertise and Connoisseurship; Architecture and the Visuakl Imagination. He has supervised many MA and PhD dissertations on 17th and 18th century art.
Research projects
A Cardinal and His Villa: The Villa Patrizi and the Fashionable Villa in Eighteentyh-Century Rome
Type of Project: Book
Giovanni Paolo Panini: Critical Study and Catalogue Raisonné.
Type of Project: Book
Research groups
Convenor, European Visual Culture Reading Group
Recent grants & awards (from 2002)
- Dale Trendall Fellow, British School at Rome, 2006.
- Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome, January-March, 2006.
- Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., November-December 2002.
Knowledge transfer
- Journal Editor, Melbourne Art Journal, 1997-2006
Recent presentations (from 2002)
Conference Convenor: Symposium: The Italians: Three Centuries of Italian Art', Melbourne, 9-11 August 2002.
(with Karin Wolfe and Susan Russell), Roma Britannica: Britain and Rome in the Eighteenth Century, two day conference at the British School at Rome, February 16-18 2006. Speakers include Brian Allen, Malcolm Baker, Elisabeth Bartman, Edgar Peters Bowron, Edward Chaney, Joseph Connors, Edward Corp, Katrina Grant, James Holloway, Clare Hornsby, Christopher Johns, Peter Kerber, Elisabeth Kieven, Alastair Laing, Tommaso Manfredi, Carol Richardson, Wendy Roworth, Francis Russell, Kevin Salatino, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Letizia Tedeschi, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, John Wilton Ely, Karin Wolfe.
Conference papers or invited lectures (selected)
- Roma Britannica: Britain and Rome in the Eighteenth Century, two day conference at the British School at Rome, February 16-18 2006, 'The Temporary Façade of Palazzo Muti for the Festa for Cardinal York'.
- Europäische Galeriebauten: Galleries in a Comparative European Perspective, Conference, Biblioteca Hertziana and British School at Rome, February 23-26 2005, 'The Ideal and Theatrical Gallery: Giovanni Paolo Panini's Paintings of Imaginary Galleries'.
- British School at Rome, Art History Lecture Series, February 9, 2005, 'Canaletto and Rome'.
- AustralianGarden History Society, August 9, 2003. 'Gardens and the Death of Art: The Robert Irwin Getty Garden'.
- Biblioteca Hertziana (Max Planck Institut), Rome, 25 June 2003, "The Villa Patrizi".
- Symposium: The Italians: Three Centuries of Italian Art, Melbourne, 9-11 August 2002. 'Nature and Imitation: Donato Creti and Eighteenth-century Landscape Painting'.
- The Joseph Burke Lecture, 2002, University of Melbourne, 21 May 2002, 'Socialites, Hermits and Antiquaries: Life in the Eighteenth-century Villa and Garden'.
Publications
Books
- Marshall, David R.,Viviano and Niccolò Codazzi and the Baroque Architectural Fantasy, Rome [Jandi Sapi Editori], 1993).
Edited books
- Marshall, David R., Russell, Susan, and Wolfe, Karin (eds.), Roma Britannica. Britain and Rome in the Eighteenth Century, conference proceedings, forthcoming.
- Marshall, David R. (ed.), "The Italians" in Australia: Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art, Florence: Centro Di, 2004.
Book chapters (from 2002)
- Marshall, David R., 'A Cardinal and His Family: the Case of Cardinal Patrizi', in the forthcoming volume Possessions. Renaissance Cardinals. Rights and Rituals, eds. M. Hollingsworth and C. Richardson, Penn State. [Forthcoming]
- Marshall, David R., 'The Ideal and Theatrical Gallery: Giovanni Paolo Panini's Paintings of Imaginary Galleries', in Europäische Galeriebauten: Galleries in a Comparative European Perspective, ed. C. Strunck (publication of the conference at the Biblioteca Hertziana/British School at Rome February 2005). [Forthcoming]
- Marshall, David R., 'Carlevaris & Canaletto, Panini & Piranesi, and the Paradoxes of the Serial veduta.' "The Italians" in Australia: Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art. [Forthcoming]
- [Forthcoming] Marshall, David R., 'Triumphal Bridge', in A. Grafton, G. Most, S. Settis (eds.), The Classical Tradition, Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, [Forthcoming]
- [Forthcoming] Marshall, David R., 'Triumphal Arch', in A. Grafton, G. Most, S. Settis (eds.), The Classical Tradition, Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, [Forthcoming]
- Marshall, David R., 'Pieter Brueghel III. The Peasant Wedding Dance', in Peter Yule and Chris McAuliffe (eds.), Treasures from the Collection of the University of Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2003.
Journal articles (from 2002)
- Marshall, David R., 'Editorial', Melbourne Art Journal, no. 8, 2005, p. 3.
- Marshall, David R., 'The Chaumont Garden Festival and the artist garden', Landscape Architecture, November, 2005.
- Marshall, David R., 'Canaletto and Panini at Farnborough Hall', Art Bulletin of Victoria, no. 45, 2005.
- Marshall, David R., 'Robert Irwin's Getty Garden and the Death of Art', Journal of the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, September, 2004, pp. 1-14.
- Marshall, David R., '"Salvator Rosa" in Tasmania: Monsù Alto and Bartolomeo Pedon at "Woolmers"', Storia dell'Arte, no. 107, January-April, 2004, pp. 105-34.
- Marshall, David R., 'Ruin Painting in 1700: Alberto Carlieri, pupil of Andrea Pozzo', Artibus et Historiae, Vienna/Cracow. 2004.
- Marshall, David R., 'The Villa Patrizi and the Recovery of the Roman Rococo', Center 23. Record of Activities and Research Reports, June 2002-May 2003. National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, 2003, pp. 101-04.
- Marshall, David R. and Robert W. Gaston, 'Pyramids to Picasso' and the Reopening of the NGV', editorial, Melbourne Art Journal, no.6, 2003, pp. 3-4.
- Marshall, David R., 'Carnevale, Conversazione, and Villeggiatura. Villa Life in the Eighteenth Century', Melbourne Art Journal, no. 6, 2003, pp. 35-64.
- Marshall, David R., 'Tivoli not Ariccia: Gaspard Dughet's View of 'Ariccia' in the National Gallery, London'. Papers of the BritishSchool at Rome. Vol. 73, 2003, pp. 293-308.
- Marshall, David R., 'Reconstructing the Villa Patrizi. Part 2. 'Allegri, mà non osceni'. Cardinal Patrizi's copies of 'Dosso Dossi's' 'Bacchanals', Journal of the History of Collections, September 2003, pp. 175-200.
- Marshall, David R., 'Piranesi, Juvarra and the Triumphal Bridge Tradition'. Art Bulletin. June 2003, pp. 321-352.
- Marshall, David R., 'Reconstructing the Villa Patrizi. Part 1. The plan of the villa', Journal of the History of Collections, April, 200, pp. 31-58.
- Marshall, David R., 'Pieter Brueghel III. The Peasant Wedding Dance', in Peter Yule and Chris McAuliffe (eds.), Treasures from the Collection of the University of Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2003.
- Marshall, David R.,'Socialites and Antiquaries: Life in an eighteenth-century villa', Melbourne Art Journal, no. 6, 2003, 2003.
- Marshall, David R.,'Reconstructing the Villa Patrizi. Part 2. 'Allegri, mà non osceni'. Cardinal Patrizi's copies of 'Dosso Dossi's' 'Bacchanals', Journal of the History of Collections, September 2003.
- Marshall, David R.,'Reconstructing the Villa Patrizi. Part 1. The plan of the villa', Journal of the History of Collections, April, 2003.
- Marshall, David R.,'Piranesi, Juvarra and the Triumphal Bridge Tradition'. Art Bulletin. June 2003.
- Marshall, David R., 'Editorial: The Italians Exhibition', Melbourne Art Journal, no. 5, 2001 (copyright 2002), pp. 3-4.
- Marshall, David R., 'Farò la villeggiatura sopra la tela': Cardinal Patrizi and Adriaen Manglard's Vedute of the Villa Patrizi', Burlington Magazine, 144, August 2002, pp. 497-501.
- Marshall, David R., 'La tentation néoclassique: les plafonds peints romains de Panini à Mengs', in Jean-Marc Olivesi (ed.), 'Les Cieux en Gloire'. Bozzetti et modelli pour les eglises et les palais de la Rome Baroque, Ajaccio, 2002, pp. 377-386.
- Marshall, David R., 'Representing the Piazza del Quirinal in the Reign of Clement XII: Panini's View of the Piazza del Quirinale', Apollo, February, 2002, pp. 3-11.