Sara Galletti
Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies
Education
Ph.D., Universite de Paris IV-Sorbonne, Paris (France) 2004
Ph.D., Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (Italy) 2004
M.Arch., Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (Italy) 1999
Overview
Sara Galletti received a joint Ph.D. in the History of Architecture from the Sorbonne (Paris) and IUAV (Venice). Her field of research is early modern architectural theory and practice, with a focus on 16th- and 17th-century Europe and the Mediterranean. She has published on secular and religious architecture, on Philibert de L'Orme, on the urban history of Paris, on the relations between space and social structures, as well as on the history of stereotomy.
Expertise
Early modern architecture, France 1500-1700, history of the profession of architectureContact Information
114 S. Buchanan Blvd, A251a, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708
(919) 668-6203
Projects
Galletti, S. Le Palais du Luxembourg de Marie de Médicis, 1611-1631. Paris: Éditions Picard, 2012. (Monograph)
Galletti, S. Stereotomy: a Mediterranean History (In preparation).. (Monograph)
Galletti, S. "Architecture and Ceremonial at the Courts of Henri IV and Maria de' Medici, 1600-1631 (Accepted)." Court Residences as Places of Exchange in Late Mediaeval and Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700. Ed. K De Jonge and S Hoppe. Turnhout (Belgium): Brepols, 2018. (Essay)
Galletti, S. "It's a man's world." Pictura et Architectura celebris: Plautilla Bricci protagonista femminile del Barocco romano. Ed. C Lollobrigida. Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2017. 11-14. (Foreword)
Galletti, S. "Rubens et la Vie de Marie de Médicis, 1622-1625." Rubens: portraits princiers. Exhibition catalogue. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 4 Oct. 2017 - 14 Jan. 2018. Ed. D Jacquot. 2017. 16-35. (Essay)
Galletti, S. "The Royal Gallery at the Time of Henri IV: Architecture and Ceremonial." Henri IV: Art et Pouvoir. Ed. C Nativel. Tours: Presses Universitaires François Rabelais, 2016. 327-340. (Essay)
Galletti, S. "Il Palazzo del Lussemburgo di Maria de’ Medici, Parigi, 1611–1631." Matronazgo y arquitectura : de la Antigüedad a la Edad Moderna. Ed. C Martínez López and F Serrano Estrella. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2016. 379-421. (Essay)
Galletti, S. "Pitti a Parigi? Metamorfosi di un modello architettonico al seguito di Maria de’ Medici." La réception de modèles cinquecenteschi dans la théorie et les arts français du XVIIe siècle. Ed. S Frommel and F Bardati. Geneva: Droz, 2010. 177-198. (Essay)
Galletti, S. "Architecture and Ceremonial in Early Modern France: the Court of Maria de’ Medici." Moving Elites: Women and Cultural Transfers in the European Court System. Ed. G Calvi and I Chabot. Florence: European University Institute, 2010. 77-111. (Essay)
Galletti, S. "Projet et chantier à la Renaissance: l’église Saint-Nicolas de Troyes, 1524-1608." Some degree of happiness. Studi di storia dell’architettura in onore di Howard Burns. Ed. M Beltramini and C Elam. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2010. 173-191. (Essay) Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "L'appartement de Marie de Médicis au palais du Luxembourg." Marie de Médicis: un gouvernement par les arts. Ed. P. Bassani Pacht, T. Crépin-Leblond, N. Sainte Fare Garnot, and F. Solinas. Paris: Somogy, 2004. 124-133. (Essay) Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "Faulchot, family." Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. München: Saur, 2003. 222-224. (Essay)
Pages
Galletti, S. "From Stone to Paper: Philibert de L’Orme, the Premier tome de l’architecture (1567), and the Birth of Stereotomic Theory." Aedificare: International Journal of Construction History 2.2 (2018): 143-162.
Galletti, S. "Stereotomy and the Mediterranean: Notes Toward an Architectural History." Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge 2 (2017): 73-120. Full Text Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "Un dessin inédit du plafond sculpté par Christophe Cochet dans la galerie Henri IV du Palais du Luxembourg, 1629–1646." Revue de l'Art 196 (2017): 61-67.
Galletti, S. "Rubens’s Life of Maria de’ Medici: Dissimulation and the Politics of Art in Early Seventeenth-Century France." Renaissance Quarterly 67.3 (2014): 878-916. Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "Philibert de l’Orme’s Divine Proportions and the Composition of the Premier tome de l’Architecture." Architectural Histories 2.1 (2014): 1-11. Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "Before the Academy: Research Trends in the History of French Early Modern Architecture before the Age of Louis XIV." Perspective 2013.1 (2013): 43-65.
Galletti, S. "Female Agency and Early Modern Urbanism: the Paris of Maria de' Medici." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 71.2 (June 2012): 186-203. Full Text Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "Rubens et la galerie de Henri IV au palais du Luxembourg (1628-1630)." Bulletin Monumental 166.1 (March 2008): 43-51. Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "Il genere della committenza e alcune problematiche di storia (al) femminile." Parametro 257 (May 2005): 84-85. Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "L’architecture de Domenico del Barbiere: Troyes 1548-1552." Revue de l’Art 136 (2002): 37-54. Open Access Copy
"Paired Models: Comparing Domestic Typologies Between Italy and France (Accepted)." (Digital Edition)
Galletti, S. "Philibert de L'Orme's Theory of Stereotomy in the Premier Tome de l'Architecture (1567) (Accepted)." (Digital Edition)
Galletti, S. "Review of David Young Kim, The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance: Geography, Mobility, and Style (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014)." American Historical Review 122.4 (October 1, 2017): 1321-1321. (Review) Full Text
Galletti, S. "Review of Frédérique Lemerle and Yves Pauwels, Architectures de papier: La France et l’Europe (XVIe–XVIIe siècles), Collection "Études Renaissantes” (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013)." Renaissance Quarterly 68.1 (2015): 256-258. Full Text
Galletti, S. "Review of Sabine Frommel and Juliette Dumas, eds., Bâtir au féminin? Traditions et stratégies en Europe et dans l’Empire ottoman (Paris: Éditions Picard, 2013)." Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio: Annali di Architettura 27 (2015): 188-189. (Review)
Galletti, S. "Review of Aloisio Antinori, ed., Studio d’Architettura Civile. Gli atlanti di architettura moderna e la diffusione dei modelli romani nell’Europa del Settecento (Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2013)." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 73.3 (September 2014): 429-431. (Review) Full Text
Galletti, S. "Review of William Caferro, Contesting the Renaissance (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)." Journal of Modern History 84.3 (September 2012): 702-704. (Review) Full Text
Galletti, S. "Review of Frédérique Lemerle, and Yves Pauwels. Philibert De l'Orme: un architecte dans l'histoire : arts, sciences, techniques : actes du LVIIe colloque international d'etudes humanistes, CESR, 30 juin-4 juillet 2014. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015 (Submitted)." Bulletin Monumental. (Review)
Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants
Bass Connections awarded by Duke University (2018 to 2019)
2017 Visiting Scholar awarded by Institut national d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA), Paris, France (2017)
2015-16 Fellow awarded by Paris Institute for Advanced Study, Paris, France (2016)
Faculty Research Grant awarded by Duke University (2015 to 2016)
Trent Memorial Foundation Grant awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund (2015 to 2016)
Humanities Writ Large, Emerging Humanities Network Grant awarded by Duke University (2012)
Course Enhancement Grant awarded by Duke University (2010)
Course Enhancement Grant awarded by Duke University (2009)
Collaborative Research Grant awarded by Getty Foundation (2007 to 2009)
Reader’s Digest Grant awarded by The Lila Wallace Foundation (2006 to 2007)
Jean-François Malle Fellowship awarded by The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa Tatti, Florence, Italy (2005 to 2006)
Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by Getty Foundation (2005 to 2006)