Francesca Fiorani
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Francesca Fiorani

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Francesca Fiorani was born and raised in Rome, Italy. She moved to the US after receiving her PhD at the University of Rome La Sapienza. A Guggenheim fellow, a professor of art history and a former associate dean for the arts and humanities at the University of Virginia, she is known for her knowledge of the science behind Renaissance and Baroque art and for her keen exploration of advanced technology in the arts and humanities. Her new book, "The Shadow Drawing: How Science Taught Leonardo da Vinci How to Paint" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), examines the science behind Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, showing how this iconic artist of western art couldn't have become the artist he became without science. She is also the author of "Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting" (2012), a digital publication to make available worldwide Leonardo da Vinci’s ideas on art that she created in collaboration with computer scientists, literary scholars, and art historians (http://www.treatiseonpainting.org). In her previous book, "The Marvel of Maps. Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy" (Yale University Press, 2005), she showed how art and science came together to create marvelous images that are at the root of modern cartography. Her research has gained recognition from numerous institutions, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, the Getty Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council for the Learned Societies, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Folger Library, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Warburg Institute at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, among others.
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