About

David R. Marshall is Principal Fellow, Art History, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne and Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and European Studies, La Trobe University. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and  Honorary Research Fellow, British School at Rome. He is founder and editor of Melbourne Art Journal and the Director of Melbourne Art Network.

His research interests centre on view-painting (especially Giovanni Paolo Panini), the art, architecture and urbanism of the City of Rome in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Publications include Viviano Codazzi and the Baroque Architectural Fantasy (1993) and (ed.) Art, Site and Spectacle: Studies in European Visual Culture (ed), 2007, and (with Susan Russell and Karin Wolfe, eds., Roma Britannica: Britain and Rome in the Eighteenth Century (2011). At Melbourne University he taught course on Renaissance and Baroque Art, Eighteenth Century Art, Garden History, Theories and Methods of Art History, and Attribution, Expertise and Connoisseurship.

CURRENT PROJECTS: The Villa Patrizi and Roman Villa Life in  Eighteenth Century Rome; Giovanni Paolo Panini