Associate Professor David Marshall

Associate Professor and Principal Fellow, Art History
School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne


David R. Marshall is Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Art History at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and Honorary Research Fellow of the British School in Rome. He is a Director of the Melbourne Art Network and was the founder and editor of Melbourne Art Journal (MAJ). His research centres on view-painting and the art, architecture and urbanism of the city of Rome in the 17thand 18th centuries. His books include Viviano Codazzi and the Baroque Architectural Fantasy (1993) and Rediscovering a Baroque Villa in Rome: Cardinal Patrizi and the Villa Patrizi 1715-1909 (2015). He has edited several collections, including ‘The Italians’ in Australia: Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art (2004); Art Site and Spectacle: Studies in Early Modern Visual Culture (2007), The Site of Rome: Studies in the Art and Topography of Rome 1400-1880 (2014),and (co-ed.) Roma Britannica. Britain and Rome in the Eighteenth Century (2010).

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