Daniel Savoy

Professor, Art History and Digital Media Art

Daniel Savoy's work focuses on the architecture and urbanism of early modern Italy, with emphases on the orchestration of architectural experience, intercultural exchange, and digital architectural history (architectureofthesoul.org, virtualvenice.org).  He is the author of the award-winning book,Venice from the Water: Architecture and Myth in an Early Modern City (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012), and (as editor) The Globalization of Renaissance Art: A Critical Review (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017).  His articles have appeared in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Renaissance Quarterly, and World Art among other journals.  During the 2023-24 academic year, he was the Samuel H. Kress Digital Humanities Fellow at the Villa I Tatti, where he worked on a 3D modeling and animation project that will be launched in conjunction with his forthcoming book, Architecture of the Soul: Buildings, Cities, and the Construction of Life in Early Modern Italy (under contract with Yale University Press). 

Education

Ph.D. 2008, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Courses Taught

ART 150: Roots of the Modern World: Art

ART 150: First-Year Seminar: Roots of the Modern World: Art

ART 321: Medieval Art and Architecture

ART 322: Renaissance Art and Architecture

ART 326: Baroque Art and Architecture

ART 402; URBN 301: Venice: Architecture of a Floating City

ART 402-01; URBN 301: Virtual Venice

ART 412: Senior Seminar: Theory and Methods of Art History

ART 090: Study Abroad, Venice, Italy: Venice and the Other

ART 090: Study Abroad, Venice, Italy: Preserving Venice 

ART 090: Study Abroad, Florence, Italy: The Geography of Urbanism in Early Modern Italy

  • Publications and Scholarly Activities

    Monographs:

    Venice after Dark: The Architectural Nightlife of an Early Modern City, in progress.

    Architecture of the Soul: Buildings, Cities, and the Construction of Life in Early Modern Italy (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, forthcoming). 

    Venice from the Water: Architecture and Myth in an Early Modern City (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012); Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award in Art History and Criticism, the Association of American Publishers; Top Ten Architecture Books of 2012, ArchNewsNow. 

    Edited Volumes:

    The Globalization of Renaissance Art: A Critical Review, ed. Daniel Savoy (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017). 

    Articles and Book Chapters:

    "Cleansing the Soul: Filarete and the Sewers of the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan," Renaissance Quarterly 77, 3 (2024): 735-88. 

    "Virtual Venice: Immersive Media and the Preservation of Historical Experience," International Journal for Digital Art History 6 (2021-2022). 

    "Toward an Inclusive Art History," World Art 10, 2 (online 2020; print 2021), 1-16. 

    "Introduction," "Epilogue," in The Globalization of Renaissance Art: A Critical Review, ed. Daniel Savoy (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017), 1-14, 314, 334-35.

    "Keeping the Myth Alive: Andrea Dandolo and the Preservation of Justice at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice," Artibus et Historiae 71 (2015), 9-29.

    “Palladio and the Water-oriented Scenography of Venice,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 71, 2 (June, 2012), 204-25.

    “Le iscrizioni sulla facciata di San Michele in Isola,” Arte Veneta 65 (2008), 132-37.

    "A Ladder of Camaldolite Salvation: The Facade of San Michele in Isola," Athanor XX (2002), 33-41.

    Reviews:

    Review of Lillian Ray Martin, “The Art and Archaeology of Venetian Ships and Boats,” Comitatus 33 (2002), 213-15.