Docenti

Sara Bova (History of Architecture)

Sara Bova is an architectural historian specializing in early modern architecture. She earned her Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Venice (IUAV) in 2017. Her doctoral research was partially conducted as a visiting student at the
Kunsthistorisches Institut of the University of Bonn. In spring 2022, she was an Associate Research Scholar at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University in New York (Weinberg Fellowship in Architectural History and
Preservation). She subsequently held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Naples
Federico II and the University of Bologna.  She has also collaborated with the Superintendence for Architectural Heritage of the Vatican Museums and the Polo Museale del Lazio of the Italian Ministry of Culture as a research assistant. She currently teaches the history of architecture as an adjunct professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the Pratt Institute Rome. Her research focuses on architectural patronage and building practices in the 15th and 16th centuries, with particular attention to sculpted and painted architecture, the organization of the worksites, and the circulation of architectural models and practices across early-modern Italy and the wider
Mediterranean. She has also investigated architectural education in the 19th and 20th centuries.