Faculty of Arts School of Culture & Communication

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)

Knowledge transfer

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)

Publications

Books

Edited books

Book chapters (from 2002)

Journal articles (from 2002)

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