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. "Philibert de L'Orme et la stéréotomie(In preparation)." Le château d'Anet. Ed. Boudon-Machuel, M. Tours.: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais. 2020. (Chapter)
Galletti, S. "La géométrie au service de la chapelle(In preparation)." Le château d'Anet. Ed. Boudon-Machuel, M. Tours.: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais. 2020. (Chapter)
Galletti, S, and Bouttier, R. "Le cryptoportique(In preparation)." Le château d'Anet. Ed. Boudon-Machuel, M. Tours.: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais. 2020. (Chapter)
Galletti, S. "De la pratique à la théorie(In preparation)." Le château d'Anet. Ed. Boudon-Machuel, M. Tours.: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais. 2020. (Chapter)
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. De Jonge, K and Hoppe, S. Turnhout (Belgium).: Brepols. 2019. (Essay)
Galletti, S. "Philibert de L’Orme’s Divine Proportions and the Composition of the Premier tome de l’architecture." Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture: A Critical Reconsideration. Ed. Cohen, MA and Delbeke, M.: Leiden University Press. December 2018. 397-414. (Essay) Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "It's a man's world." Pictura et Architectura celebris: Plautilla Bricci protagonista femminile del Barocco romano. Ed. Lollobrigida, C. Rome.: Gangemi Editore. 2017. 11-14. (Foreword) Open Access Copy
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. Jacquot, D. 2017. 16-35. (Essay) Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "The Royal Gallery at the Time of Henri IV: Architecture and Ceremonial." Henri IV: Art et Pouvoir. Ed. Nativel, C. Tours.: Presses Universitaires François Rabelais. 2016. 327-340. (Essay) Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "Il Palazzo del Lussemburgo di Maria de’ Medici, Parigi, 1611–1631." Matronazgo y arquitectura : de la Antigüedad a la Edad Moderna. Ed. Martínez López, C and Serrano Estrella, F. Granada.: Editorial Universidad de Granada. 2016. 379-421. (Essay)
Pages
Galletti, S. "Épures d’architecture: geometric constructions for vault building in Philibert de L’Orme’s theory of stereotomy(Accepted)." Opus Incertum 13 (2020).
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. 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. Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "Stereotomy and the Mediterranean: Notes Toward an Architectural History." Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge 2 (2017): 73-120. Open Access Copy
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. Open Access Copy
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
Pages
Galletti, S. "Philibert de L'Orme's Theory of Stereotomy in the Premier Tome de l'Architecture (1567)." (April 16, 2018). (Digital Edition)
Galletti, S. "Paired Models: Comparing Domestic Typologies Between Italy and France(Published online)." (2018). (Digital Edition) Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "Review of Anne-Marie Sankovitch, The Church of Saint-Eustache in the Early French Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols 2015)." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 77.4 (December 2018): 477-478. Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "Review of Frédérique Lemerle and Yves Pauwels. Philibert De l’Orme: un architecte dans l’histoire: arts, sciences, techniques (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016)." Trans. Stirnemann, P. Bulletin Monumental 176.4 (2018): 360-361. (Review) Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "Review of Claude Mignot, François Mansart: un architecte artiste au siècle de Louis XIII et de Louis XIV (Paris: Le Passage, 2016)." Trans. Boudon, F. Bulletin Monumental 176.4 (2018): 361-363. (Review) Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "David Young Kim. The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance: Geography, Mobility, and Style." The American Historical Review 122.4 (October 1, 2017): 1321-1321. Full Text Open Access Copy
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 Open Access Copy
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) Open Access Copy
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 Open Access Copy
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 Open Access Copy
Galletti, S. "Jacques Androuet du Cerceau: les nouveaux contours d’une œuvre. Review of Françoise Boudon and Claude Mignot, Jacques Androuet du Cerceau: les dessins des plus excellents bâtiments de France (Paris: Éditions Picard, 2010), Sylvie Deswarte-Rosa and Daniel Régnier-Roux, Le recueil de Lyon: Jacques Ier Androuet du Cerceau et son entourage: dessins d’architecture des XVIe et XVIIe siècles de la bibliothèque de Camille de Neufville de Villeroy (Saint-Etienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint-Etienne, 2010), and Jean Guillaume and Peter Fuhring, Jacques Androuet du Cerceau: "un des plus grands architectes que se soient jamais trouvés en France" (Paris: Éditions Picard, 2010)." Perspective 2010/2011.3 (2011): 482-488. (Review) Open Access Copy
Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants
Bass Connections awarded by Duke University (2019 to 2020)
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)