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Biography
I am an historian of early modern architecture in France and England. I received my B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara, an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and my Ph.D. from Columbia University. I have had teaching posts at Columbia, Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and Vassar College in New York. Prior to my appointment at Manchester, I was Scott Opler Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford. I have also taught in the architecture schools at the University of Brighton and at Kingston University in London. I was Lead Editor of Architectural History, the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, from 2017 to 2020.
Research interests
My research covers two related areas:
- the role of architecture in seventeenth-century scientific and academic circles
- the technical and mathematical background of early modern architects, engineers, and gardeners
My more general interests lie in
- the shared material culture of art, science, and technology
- the professional and intellectual world of early modern artisans
- architectural treatises and the printed book
- cartography and its relation to landscape
- the urban history of Paris
- court culture and patronge
I have published a monograph, François Blondel: Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution (Routledge, 2010) and was co-curator of the exhibition Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England 1500-1750 (ex. cat. Yale University Press, 2009). I have recently edited a collected volume of essays: Geometrical Objects: Architecture and the Mathematical Sciences 1400-1800 (Springer, 2014).
External positions
Trustee, The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
1 Sep 2017 → 1 Sep 2020
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Picauville (1581), Montargis (1570), and Nanteuil-le-Haudouin (1609) [catalogue entries]
Gerbino, A., 2019, Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes. Vues et fîgures de l’espace français. Moyen Âge et Renaissance. Dumasy-Rabineau, J., Gastaldi, N. & Serchuk, C. (eds.). Paris: Archives Nationales, p. 133-35, 150-51, 212-13 7 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution
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Mastering the Landscape: Geometric Survey in Sixteenth-Century France
Gerbino, A., 12 Dec 2018, In: Art Bulletin. 100, 4, p. 7-33Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Paper Revolution: The Origin of Large Scale Technical Drawing under Henry VIII
Gerbino, A., 2017, Picturing Places, a visual resource of the British Library.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution
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Jacques Lemercier’s Scenografia of Montjeu: Architectural Prints, Cartography, and Landscape in 1620
Gerbino, A., 14 Jun 2016, Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period. Fischer, H., Remmert, V. R. & Wolschke-Bulmahn, J. (eds.). Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag Ag, p. 135-152Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Geometrical Objects: Architecture and the Mathematical Sciences, 1400-1800
Gerbino, A., 5 Aug 2014, Dordrecht: Springer Nature. (Archimedes)Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › peer-review
Activities
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Architectural History (Journal)
Anthony Gerbino (Editor in chief)
1 Sep 2017 → 1 Sep 2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work