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Martina Massaro

Architectural historian

Martina Massaro is an art and architectural historian specialised in the modern period. She studied in Venice at the Università Ca’ Foscari with Lionello Puppi and then, under the guidance of Donatella Calabi, she obtained her PhD in History of the Arts at the Graduate School Ca’ Foscari-Iuav (2010-2013) with a thesis on the Treves family’s patronage. Afterwards, she has been a Research Fellow at the Università Iuav in Venice until 2016 and from 2017 at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (ICEA) at the Università degli Studi di Padova. Since 2013, she has been a member of the international research group Visualizing Venice/Visualizing Cities in collaboration with Duke University and, since 2020, she has been Visiting Professor in History of Architecture in Yaoundé at the National Advanced School of Public Works of the Republic of Cameroon. In 2016, the results of her research were awarded with the Pompeo Molmenti prize of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Between 2021 and 2022 she collaborated with the Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea on the MIC’s Censimento dell’architettura del Secondo ‘900. Since 2022, she has collaborated with CASVA in Milan for the study and description of the archives of Studio MID, of Bela Angelus and Mario Salvadè. Her studies focus on 19th- and 20th-century patronage between art and architecture with a specific interest in the history of gardens, Jewish commissions, and their crucial role in the Venetian social and economic history.