
Emanuele Lugli
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
Art & Art History
Bio
Emanuele Lugli teaches and writes about late medieval and early modern art, with a particular emphasis on Italian painting, trade, urban culture, and the history of fashion. His theoretical concerns include questions of scale and labor, the history of measurements and technology, conceptualizations of precision, vagueness, smallness, and the reach of intellectual networks.
Emanuele has written two monographs. The first, Unità di Misura: Breve Storia del Metro in Italia (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2014), reconstructs the revolution triggered by the introduction of the metric system in nineteenth-century Italy. The second, The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), is a quest for the foundations of objectivity through an analysis of the ways measurements standards were made, displayed, used, and imagined between the twelfth and the seventeenth century. A third book, a study of hair and the corporeal minuscule in founding notions of vitality, beauty, and desire in Renaissance Florence, is underway. Emanuele has also edited with Professor Joan J. Kee (University of Michigan) a collection of essays on the roles of size in artmaking titled To Scale (Hoboken, Wiley-Blackwell: 2015).
Besides his academic essays, Emanuele has also written for newspapers such as The Guardian, architectural magazines like Abitare, and Vogue Italia.
Academic Appointments
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Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
2021-22 Courses
- Art and Power
ARTHIST 5 (Spr) - Desiring Machines: Buildings, Maps, and Clouds
ARTHIST 212, ARTHIST 412, COMPLIT 212A, COMPLIT 312A, ILAC 212A, ILAC 312A (Win) - Methods and Debates
ARTHIST 502 (Aut) - The Italian Renaissance, or the Art of Success
ARTHIST 115, ARTHIST 315 (Aut) -
Independent Studies (9)
- Curricular Practical Training
ARTHIST 680 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Dissertation Proposal Preparation
ARTHIST 640 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Dissertation Research
ARTHIST 650 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Extended Seminar
ARTHIST 660E (Aut, Win, Spr) - Honors Thesis Writing
ARTHIST 297 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Independent Study
ARTHIST 660 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Individual Work: Art History
ARTHIST 298 (Aut) - Qualifying Examination Preparation
ARTHIST 620 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Teaching Praxis
ARTHIST 610 (Win, Spr)
- Curricular Practical Training
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Prior Year Courses
2020-21 Courses
- Junior Seminar: Methods & Historiography of Art History
ARTHIST 296 (Win) - Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art
ARTHIST 119, ARTHIST 319, FRENCH 149, FRENCH 349, ITALIAN 149, ITALIAN 349 (Sum) - Race and Ethnicity in Premodern Europe
ARTHIST 207D, ARTHIST 407D, HISTORY 215B, HISTORY 315B (Win)
2019-20 Courses
- Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art
ARTHIST 119 (Win) - The Italian Renaissance, or the Art of Success
ARTHIST 115, ARTHIST 315 (Aut) - The Masters: Raphael
ARTHIST 410 (Spr) - Writing and the Visual: The Art of Art Writing
ARTHIST 294 (Win)
2018-19 Courses
- Art and Invisibility: The Dissemblance of Labour.
ARTHIST 420 (Spr) - Junior Seminar: Methods & Historiography of Art History
ARTHIST 296 (Win) - Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art
ARTHIST 119 (Aut)
- Junior Seminar: Methods & Historiography of Art History
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Altair Brandon-Salmon, Maria Terss -
Orals Chair
Joe Amato -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Harleen Kaur Bagga, Meagan Khoury -
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (NonAC)
Graylin Harrison
All Publications
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Decolonizing Art History
ART HISTORY
2020; 43 (1): 8–66
View details for DOI 10.1111/1467-8365.12490
View details for Web of Science ID 000509322300001
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The Ribbon Files: The Medici Project to Chart the Measurements of the Entire World
I TATTI STUDIES
2019; 22 (1): 143–81
View details for DOI 10.1086/702665
View details for Web of Science ID 000476573000008