ERC: Ludovica Galeazzo
ERC Grantee: Ludovica Galeazzo
Department: Cultural Heritage: Archaeology and History of Art, Cinema and Music
Total Contribution: Euro 1.499.878,00
Project Duration in months: 60
Start Date: 01/10/2022
End Date: 30/09/2027
Ludovica Galeazzo is an architectural and urban historian whose research focuses on Venetian architecture in the early modern period with a special interest in new technologies to demonstrate the process of the city’s change over time.
She received her PhD in History of Arts from the Graduate School Ca’ Foscari-Iuav in Venice and was later a Research Fellow at the Iuav University of Architecture (2013-2016) and a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University (2016-2017). In 2019 she was the recipient of the Kress fellowship in Digital Humanities at I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, where she continues to hold an appointment as a Research Associate.
Galeazzo is the coordinator of the project Metapolis (I Tatti) and the international consortium Florentia Illustrata, a multi-institutional research on digital Renaissance Florence. She has been a member of the collaborative initiative Visualizing Venice/Visualizing Cities since 2011 and has worked as assistant curator on three international exhibitions on early modern Venetian history displayed at the Ducal Palace (Water and Food in Venice, 2015; Venice, the Jews, and Europe, 2016) and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke (A Portrait of Venice: Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of 1500, 2017). She also serves on the editorial board of the Architectural Histories journal (EAHN).
Ludovica Galeazzo has published extensively on the relationship between architecture, urban studies, and social history, and the wide-ranging issue of place-making processes. Her publications include the monograph Venezia e i margini urbani. L’insula dei Gesuiti in età moderna (IVSLA 2018), the co-edited volume Acqua e cibo a Venezia. Storie della laguna e della città (Marsilio 2015), and more than thirty essays and articles.
She was awarded the ERC 2021 Starting Grant for the project Venice’s Nissology. Reframing the Lagoon City as an Archipelago, which aims to reconstruct the transformations of Venice’s lagoon islands alongside their interwoven relationships in a geographically- and temporally-based digital environment.