Contact Information

Alina Payne

Paul  E. Geier Director 

Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies

Alexander P. Misheff Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Harvard University

Address (Cambridge): 
Department of History of Art & Architecture
Harvard University
485 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138

Address (Florence):
Villa I Tatti
The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Via di Vincigliata 26, 50135 Florence, Italy
Phone: +1 617.495.3911
Fax: +1 617.496.8389
Email: aapayne [at] fas.harvard.edu		 Phone: +39 603 251
Fax: +39 055 603 383
Email: aapayne [at] itatti.harvard.edu



Biography

Alina Payne is Paul E. Geier Director of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and Alexander P. Misheff Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

She is the author of The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance (1999), Rudolf Wittkower (2010), From Ornament to Object. Genealogies of Architectural Modernism(2012), The Telescope and the Compass. Teofilo Gallaccini and the Dialogue between Architecture and Science in the Age of Galileo (2012), and L'architecture parmi les arts: Matérialité, transferts et travail artistique dans l'Italie de la Renaissance (2016).

She has edited numerous volumes of essays including, most recently, The Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (2016), Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local (with G. Necipoglu, 2016) and Revision, Revival and Return. The Renaissance in the Nineteenth-Century (2018).

In 2006 she was awarded the Max Planck and Alexander von Humboldt Prize in the Humanities (2006-12). She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

 

Featured News


Alina Payne inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

jjOn October 7, 2017, Director of I Tatti Alina Payne was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


Founded in 1780, The purpose of the American Academy, according to its charter of incorporation, is "to promote and encourage the knowledge of the antiquities and the natural history of America; to determine the uses to which the various natural productions of the country may be applied; to promote and encourage medical discoveries, mathematical disquisitions, philosophical enquiries and experiments, astronomical, meteorological and geographical observations, and improvements in agriculture, arts, manufactures and commerce; and, in fine, to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people."

Alina Payne was one of thirteen Harvard faculty to be elected to the Academy this year.

 


Lecture Series: La Chaire du Louvre. 19 September - 6 October 2016

Between 19 September and 6 October 2016, Alina Payne will give a series of lectures concerning architecture and the exchanges between the arts in her capacity as Chaire du Louve 2016.  

Lectures will be held at 19.00 in the Auditorium of the Louvre on September 19, 22, and 29; and October 3 and 6. 

Click here to view the lecture program

Click here to view a video presentation

Click here for article: Grande Galerie - Le Journal du Louvre n°37



International Seminar: Connecting Art Histories

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From Riverbed to Seashore. Art on the Move in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Period.

A Getty Foundation Connecting Art Histories Project led by Alina Payne

 

Alina Payne leads a project based on a series of seminars on artistic ties that developed in the early Modern period along the complex network of waterways that connect Eastern Europe to the Mediterranean Dalmatian Coast and the Black Sea. The seminars will focus on the ways in which architecture, ornament, art, literary texts and crafted small objects, fragments and materials, ideas and scientific instruments circulated across caravanserais and hans, along river and transhumance routes, carried by merchants and armies, ambassadors and concubines, slaves and craftsmen.