AdriContArch
Architectural Culture of the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic

Martina Frank is a historian of art and architecture and Full Professor of the history of architecture. Her research interests include Venetian art and architecture, mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries, with particular focus on questions of art patronage and a cross-disciplinary perspective. Moreover, she investigates the relationship between the Republic of Venice and the Empire, especially in the field of domestic and residential architecture. Her studies also focus on civic and religious rituals in Venice.

Cristiano Guarneri is an architectural and urban historian. He received his PhD at the School for Advanced Studies in Venice (2010) with a dissertation on Peter the Great's Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, under the supervision of Howard Burns. His pre-doctoral research was conducted at the Fondazione Archivio del Moderno of the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio (University of Italian Switzerland), and in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, supported by the Bourse pour Chercheur Débutant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (2008). Since 2010, he has held postdoctoral positions at IUAV University in Venice and the University of Padua. He has taught history of modern and contemporary architecture as an adjunct professor at the Universities of Padua, Brescia, Venice Ca' Foscari, and at the École Nationale Superieure des Traveaux Publics of Yaoundé, and as a teaching assistant at the Universities of Brescia and Padua.

Margherita Mittone is a pre-doctoral fellow at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She obtained her BA in Economics and Cultural Heritage Studies (2019) and her MA in Art History (2022) from the same institution. She studied the contribution of engineer-architect Filippo Lavezzari to the restoration of monuments in 19th-century Venice. She has collaborated with the Archive of the Comune di Venezia, conducting research on the commissioning of the Palazzi Cornaro in Murano after being awarded a research grant. Currently, she is responsible for a bibliographic database of the architecture of Friuli and Marche in the early modern period.

Elisabetta Molteni is a historian of architecture and an Associate Professor of History of Architecture at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Her research interests focus on several thematic areas: the history of architecture in the modern era, with particular reference to Venice and the territories of the Republic; modern military architecture, including its relationship with scientific knowledge and the history of the city; architecture between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and its relationship with society; and architectural drawings, as well as the history of cartography and the representation of the city and its territory.