Prof Laura Moretti

Prof Laura Moretti

Professor of Art and Architectural History

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2404
Email
lm93@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Laura Moretti took her undergraduate degree in architecture and also holds a professional performance diploma in violoncello. She has a PhD in architectural history, and has been working for several years on the relationship between architecture and music. She has held prestigious post-doctoral and research positions (Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge, 2005-07; Worcester College, University of Oxford, 2007-10; Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2010 and 2014-15).

In 2005-08 she participated in the project 'Architecture and Music in Renaissance Venice' led by Professor Deborah Howard at the University of Cambridge. In 2014-16 she has been the co-ordinator of the International Network , funded by the Leverhulme Trust. In 2016-20 she co-directed, with Daryl Green (Edinburgh University Library, Centre for Research Collections), the research and impact project .  She has curated and co-curated several exhibitions and organised events in Italy and UK related to these projects, including  at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford. In 2021-22 she worked on the project '', thanks to a Leverhulme Trust International Fellowship.

She is the author of , Turnhout: Brepols; London: Harvey Miller, 2020; , Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2008, and the joint author (with Deborah Howard) of Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice. Architecture, Music, Acoustics, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. She is the co-editor of , Turnhout: Brepols, 2017 (with Pierre Caye, Frédérique Lemerle and Vasco Zara); Daniele Barbaro (1514-70). Letteratura, scienza e arti nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Cornuda (Treviso): Antiga, 2015 (with Susy Marcon), La chiesa e l’ospedale di San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti. Arte, beneficenza, cura, devozione, educazione, Venice: Marcianum Press, 2015 (with Alexandra Bamji and Linda Borean), , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 (with Deborah Howard), and Architettura e Musica nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2006 (with Deborah Howard).

She is currently working on a monograph provisionally entitled The adventurous life of the Betende Knabe. Her latest articles include ‘Gli inventari della “Casa dell’Ortoâ€: Nuove Indagini sulla collezione di disegni e stampe di Niccolò Gaddi’, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 64/1 (2022): 68-99; ‘Tintoretto’s Louvre “Paradise†in Palazzo Bevilacqua, Verona’, The Burlington Magazine 162/1408 (2020): 570-578; â€˜From the Vite or the Ritratti? Previously unknown portraits from Vasari’s Libro de’ Disegni,’ I Tatti Studies 21/1 (2018): 105-136 (co-authored with Sean Roberts), and ‘The palazzo, collections, and musical patronage of Niccolò Gaddi (1536-1591),’ Journal of the History of Collections 29/2 (2017): 189-207.

She would welcome research students with interests in any area of Italian art and architecture c.1450-1600.

PhD supervision

  • Francesco Alessandrini Lupia
  • Francesca Bisi
  • Louis Edmanson
  • Mariaelena Floriani

Selected publications

  • Open access
    Moretti, L., 18 May 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of the Classical Tradition. Latest articles, p. 1-44

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Moretti, L., 17 Apr 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Renaissance Studies. Early View, p. 1-19

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Moretti, L., 15 Oct 2025, In: Atti dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. 183, p. 311-336

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Moretti, L., 31 Dec 2024, Venice in blue: the use of carta azzurra in the artist’s studio and in the printer’s workshop, ca. 1500-50. McCarthy, A. J., Moretti, L. & Sachet, P. (eds.). Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, p. 99-128 30 p. (Testi e fonti per la storia del disegno e della grafica; vol. 3).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • McCarthy, A. J. (Editor), Moretti, L. (Editor) & Sachet, P. (Editor), 31 Dec 2024, Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore. 211 p. (Testi e fonti per la storia del disegno e della grafica; vol. 3)

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Moretti, L., 1 Jan 2023, The museum of Renaissance music : a history in 100 exhibits. Borghetti, V. & Shephard, T. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 99-101 3 p. (Collection "Epitome musical").

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Moretti, L., 1 Mar 2022, In: Burlington Magazine. CLXIV, 1428, p. 190-192 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

  • Moretti, L., 1 Dec 2022, In: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz. 64, 1, p. 69-100 32 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Moretti, L., 1 Jan 2022, Market spaces, production sites, and sound landscape of European cities: from history to regeneration. Svalduz, E. (ed.). Padua: Padova University Press, p. 57-68 12 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Moretti, L., Dec 2020, Brepols, Harvey Miller. 295 p. (In the Shadow of the Lion of St. Mark (HMSLSM); vol. 3)

    Research output: Book/Report › Book