The Venetian patrician, Daniele Barbaro, was one of the greatest intellectuals of his
time and a prominent patron of artists and scholars, such as Palladio, Veronese
and Titian. A complex and multi-faceted personality, he published several books
and left unpublished writings on a range of subjects, including philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, optics, history, music, and architecture.
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| Paolo Veronese, Portrait of Daniele Barbaro, 1556-67, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. |
The International Network,
Daniele Barbaro (1514-70): In and Beyond the Text, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, project partners University of St Andrews, Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, and Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, puts Barbaro under the lens of his writings, and adopting a cross-disciplinary approach it provides a reassessment of this figure in the context of the European Renaissance on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his birth.
The project, co-ordinated by
Dr Laura Moretti, of the
School of Art History, started on the 1st of February 2014 and will end on the 31st of January 2016. The project partners are the University of St Andrews, the Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, and the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice.
A recent exhibition of the work (University of St
Andrews, 4-5 September 2014) set up in parallel with a workshop on Barbaro’s
manuscripts and printed works, his relation with printers, and the
context of book printing in sixteenth-century Venice (see the
exhibition catalogue for further information).
A major
exhibition of the work opens in Venice on the 10th of January in the Salone Sansoviniano of the Marciana Library.
