Livia Lupi

Livia Lupi is a historian of early modern European art and architecture, currently based at the University of Warwick in the Faculty of Arts, Department of Art History. She joined Warwick in 2018 as a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow and holds a guest lecturer position at TU Wien (Vienna) for 2025. She also teaches short courses at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

• BA in History of Art, University of York
• MA, Courtauld Institute of Art
• PhD (AHRC-funded), University of York

Her research focuses on the intersection of artistic and architectural practice in late medieval and early Renaissance Italy (c. 1300–1500), particularly on painted architecture, design and craftsmanship, the emergence of the architect as a professional, and the reception of classical antiquity. She explores how architecture was represented and used in paintings to shape identity, authority, and narrative, with attention to cultural exchanges between Italy and the Ottoman Empire.

Her recent publications include the monograph Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy (2024) and contributions to exhibition catalogues on Michelangelo, Titian, and Sebastiano del Piombo. The articles in her body of work reveal a consistent engagement with architectural rhetoric, fictive space, craftsmanship, and transmedial practices in Renaissance art, often analyzing major fresco cycles and painter-architect figures.

• Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship
• Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding
• University of Warwick and Warburg Institute grants

Livia serves as Vice President for Program Coordination and Chair of the Program Committee of the Italian Art Society (2025–2026), and co-convenes the Architectural History Seminar for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain and the Institute of Historical Research. She regularly reviews for leading journals such as The Burlington Magazine, Speculum, and English Historical Review, and contributes translations of historical documents for major exhibitions.

She is the curator of the digital exhibition Beyond the Painter-Architect: Artists Reinventing Architecture in Renaissance Italy at the Sir John Soane Museum, reflecting her interdisciplinary approach to art, architecture, and cultural history.