Deborah Howard

Title

Professor

Institution

University of Cambridge

Current Research

Aspects of Early Modern Architecture in Venice

Recent Publications

‘Voices from Heaven’ in Music and Sacred Architecture, ed. by Tobias C. Weißmann and Klaus Pietschmann, Vol. 1, Music, Performance, Architecture: Sacred Spaces as Sound Spaces in the Early Modern Period, Baden-Baden: Georg Olms Verlag, 2024, pp. 131-147

‘Sensory Impact and Ritual Purification: The Foundation Ceremonies of St Peter’s in Rome and the Votive Churches of the Redentore and Santa Maria della Salute in Venice’, Artibus et Historiae, no. 91 (XLVI), 2025, Papers in Honour of Catherine Puglisi, part I, pp. 11-25

‘Veronese’s Painted Architecture’ in the exhibition catalogue on Paolo Veronese (15228-1588), ed. by Miguel Falomir, Madrid: Prado (2025), pp. 177-195

‘Remembering Howard Burns, 1939-2025’, (editor and contributor) Renaissance Architectural and Theory Scholars, Architectural History, 68, 2025, pp. 247-264

‘Obituary: Howard Burns (1939-2025)’ in The Burlington Magazine, 167, May 2025, pp. 630-632

‘Foreword’ in Georges M. Cantacuzeno, Palladio: a Critical Essay, transl. and ed. by Dan S. Teodorovici, Berlin: W+Zn Verlag, 2025, p. 9

‘L’acqua come risorsa per la proto-industria in contesto rurale’, in Palladio e l’acqua, atti del convegno (2024), ed. by Donata Battilotti and Guido Beltramini, Venice: Marsilio, 2026, pp. 135-156

‘Venetian perspectives on the Silk Roads’, in Architecture, Monuments and Urbanism: Part III: Cultural networks and sea ports on the maritime Silk Routes, ed. by Elena Paskaleva and Michael Turner, UNESCO, 2025, pp. 261-282https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000393651?posInSet=2&queryId=N-41fdb71d-79ba-43ee-af77-5dfce0fbed55

‘Systems of Building: The Case of Venice’, in the Cambridge Journal of Visual Culture, 3 (2024), PP. 92-97

Review of Denis Ribouillault, The Villa Barbaro at Maser: Science, Philosophy and the Family in Venetian Renaissance Art in The Burlington Magazine, 166, September 2024, pp. 979-981

Review of Elizabeth Merrill (ed.), Creating Place in Early Modern European Architecture, in Renaissance Quarterly, LXXVII/1, Spring 2024, pp. 262-264

Review of Ronnie Ferguson, Venetian Inscriptions: Vernacular Writing for Public Display in Medieval and Renaissance Venice in Burlington Magazine, 165, February 2023, pp. 207-8


Forthcoming Publications

(with Elena Svalduz) monograph on Jacopo Sansovino's villa Garzoni

‘La riva degli Schiavoni: In che senso zona portuale?’ in San Giovanni in Bragora, atti del convegno (2023), ed. by Lorenzo Buonanno and Matteo Casini

‘Alexandria in the Venetian Imagination’, for The ‘Stato Da Mar’: The Venetian Mediterranean as a Cultural and Artistic Space, ed. by Donal Cooper and Georgios Markou, Brepols



Review of Mario Piana, Costruire a Venezia, for The Burlington Magazine