Guido Beltramini


Guido Beltramini is an Italian architectural historian and a curator.

Biography

Guido Beltramini has been Director of the in Vicenza, Italy since 1991 and he has been Director of the Palladio Museum since its foundation in 2012. He is an expert in Renaissance architecture, especially the work of Andrea Palladio and his followers, and has published widely on these subjects. He has also curated several exhibitions, which in recent years have also been a means of further developing his Renaissance studies and in particular the network of relations between writers and artists.
In 2008 he has been Craig Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow at Villa I Tatti, Florence; in 2009-2010 Kress Foundation Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, New York, and in 2011 Mellon Senior Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. Beltramini has taught as visiting professor at the University of Ferrara and University of Milan, and in 2017 he has been Andrew W. Mellon Inaugural Visiting Professor at the V&A Research Institute and Royal College PhD program "History of Design". In 2015 - 2020 he has been visiting lecturer at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambdridge, Since 2015 he has been member of the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Centre for Architecture and since 2012 member of the International Advisory Panel of Architectural History. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.Since 2022 he has been member of the Faculty of Architecture of the British School at Rome.

Selected publications

In addition to numerous papers and articles, the principal books he has written or co-edited include:
  • The Elusive Face of Andrea Palladio
  • Storia dell’architettura nel Veneto. Il Cinquecento
  • Jefferson and Palladio. Constructing a New World
  • The Private Palladio
  • Palladio and the Architecture of Battle
  • Carlo Scarpa e la scultura del Novecento
  • Palladio
  • Carlo Scarpa. Architecture and Design
  • Vincenzo Scamozzi. 1548–1616.

Exhibitions

Beltramini has curated exhibitions for the Palladio Museum in Vicenza; the Venice Architecture Biennale; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; the Morgan Library and Museum, New York; the National Building Museum, Washington; and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. He has recently completed a trilogy of Renaissance exhibitions: Pietro Bembo e l’invenzione del Rinascimento, 2013, Aldo Manuzio. Il rinascimento di Venezia, 2016, and Cosa vedeva Ariosto quando chiudeva gli occhi, 2016–17.

Selected exhibitions

  • The mystery of Palladio's face, exhibition curated by Guido Beltramini. Guido Beltramini. Vicenza, Palladio Museum, 3 December 2016 - 18 June 2017.
  • Found in Translation: Palladio – Jefferson, A narrative by Filippo Romano. Exhibition curated by Guido Beltramini, Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio. Canadian Centre for Architecture, 8 October 2014 to 15 February 2015.
  • Palladio at Work: An annotated exhibition. Exhibition curated by Guido Beltramini, Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, in collaboration with Charles Hind, RIBA Architectural Library. Canadian Centre for Architecture, 3 March 2011 to 22 May 2011.
  • Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey. The Morgan Library and Museum, 2 April 2010 - 1 August 2010