| Position in department | Director of European Studies |
| Staff position | Lecturer |
| E-mail | cpearson (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk) |
| Telephone | 2076 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number) |
| Room | 6.122 |
| Biography | Caspar Pearson specialises in the art, architecture and urbanism of the Italian Renaissance. He has recently published Humanism and the Urban World: Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance City (University Park, PA.: Penn State University Press, 2011). The book examines the way in which humanism, aesthetic theory and the practice of architecture combine with personal experience of life in the Italian city-states to inform Alberti’s thinking about the urban world. Before coming to Essex, Caspar lived and worked in Rome for five years, where he was a fellow of the British School at Rome. |
| Research interests |
- Leon Battista Alberti
- Architectural Treatises
- Renaissance Images of Cities
- The Italian Renaissance
- Urbanism and town planning in Italy 1400-1700
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| Publications | Link to publications for Caspar Pearson |