Dr. Alessio Assonitis
Research Director
Ph.D. Columbia University, 2003
Research Interests:
Renaissance aesthetics; Medici patronage; archival studies
email:
assonitis[at]medici[dot]org
Location:
Italy Dr. Alessio Assonitis was born in Rome in 1970, attended Saint Stephen's School on the Aventine hill, graduated from Bennington College in Vermont, and received his doctoral degree in Renaissance art history from Columbia University in 2003.
He has taught art history at Columbia University, Barnard College, Herron School of Art, and the Christian Theological Seminary and served as Clowes Fellow at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
In 2004 he arrived at the Medici Archive Project with a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. He became the MAP Research Director in 2008.
He has published scholarly work on Raphael, Fra Bartolomeo della Porta, Bastiano Mainardi, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Marie de’ Medici, Church history, and antiquarian studies.
He currently serves as editor of the historical journal Memorie domenicane. His monograph on Fra Bartolomeo is due out in February 2010.
