Biography
Dr Sarah Pearson is an Architectural Historian with specialist interest in the architecture of the European Renaissance and in the use of architecture to promote specific ideological or sociological principles.
Sarah’s PhD was from the University of Reading and the subject of her doctoral thesis was the architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini on whom she has published articles and contributed to the book, Reconstructing Francesco di Giorgio Architect (Peter Lang, 2011).
Sarah has enjoyed teaching and lecturing at universities and adult education institutions on a variety of art and architectural subjects since 2001. Sarah retains active research interests in Italian art and architecture with particular reference to the rise of Fascism and its expression through Italian design.
Book chapters
- ‘La Scala Elicoidale: The Spiral Ramps of Francesco di Giorgio. An Architectural Re-Invention’ in Reconstructing Francesco di Giorgio Architect, Bertold Hub, Angeliki Polalli eds. Peter Lang, 2011
Journal articles
- The Convent of Santa Chiara in Urbino: A New Chronology of its Construction and Patronage. Architectural Histories,2015, 3(1): 16, pp. 1–5, 2015
- La ami o la odi: L’architettura futarista, modernista e brutalista nel Regno Unito, in Terzocchio Magazine, March, 2009
Reviews
- Reconsidering the Renaissance: New Questions for Old Themes by Kim W. Woods, Carol M. Richardson, Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Michael W. Franklin and Brian Curran, in Art History, 32: 199–204, 2009
- Christy Anderson Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007 in Nexus Network Journal, Volume 10,1, 2008
- Women, Art and Architecture in Northern Italy 1520–1580: Negotiating Power - by Katherine A. McIver , in Renaissance Studies, 21: 448–450, 2007
- Overtures to the Renaissance: Finding New Ground, in Art History, 30: 111–116, 2007
- Mark Wilson Jones, Principles of Roman Architecture, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003, in Nexus Network Journal, Volume 7,2, 2005