33:(born March 1954) is a British art and architectural historian, specialising in Renaissance art and architecture, especially that of Rome, Florence, and Venice. He has published numerous catalogue essays and books that address architectural theory and the methodology of architectural design. He is currently (2020) Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the
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Hemsoll's work, "has long provided a lucid, (perhaps too) convenient structure for general histories of Renaissance architecture and for teaching the subject to students. In this book Hemsoll offers a personal critical reassessment of Vasari's legacy". Hemsoll analyses work by
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In 1990, when the
Department of the Art History was re-founded at the University of Birmingham, Hemsoll was appointed Lecturer; he was department head between 2002 and 2010.
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D. Hemsoll. ‘The conception and design of
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling: “wishing just to shed a little upon the whole rather than mentioning the parts.”’ In
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in 2020, and
Hemsoll was interviewed by the President of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, Neil Jackson, on the event of his nomination.
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D. Hemsoll with Paul
Godfrey, 'The Pantheon: temple or rotunda?', in Pagan Gods and Shrines of the Roman Empire, edited by Martin Henig, Oxford, 1986.
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D. Hemsoll. ‘Consonance, incoherence and obscurity: rhetorical idealism in the centrally-planned church schemes of
Sebastiano Serlio.’ In
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He has been a Fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries of London since 2014. From 2015 to 2017, he was the Director of the
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573:"Renaissance Architecture - (D.) Hemsoll Emulating Antiquity. Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo"
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are currently being digitised by the
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D. Hemsoll. ‘Simone
Martini’s St John the Evangelist re-examined: a panel from an early portable triptych.'
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D. Hemsoll with P. Davies and M. Wilson Jones. ‘The
Pantheon: triumph of Rome or triumph of compromise?’
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D. Hemsoll. ‘A question of language: Raphael, Michelangelo and the art of architectural imitation.' In
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Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy; Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard,
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D. Hemsoll. ‘Beauty as an aesthetic and artistic ideal in late fifteenth-century Florence.’ In
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Rethinking the High Renaissance: the Culture of the Visual Arts in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome
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His 1987 article with Paul Godfrey influentially proposed observations of the design of the
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D. Hemsoll. ‘Imitation as a creative vehicle in Michelangelo’s art and architecture.' In
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Emulating antiquity : renaissance buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo
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influences. The book reconsiders the influential work of sixteenth-century writer
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D. Hemsoll. ‘Reconstructing the octagonal dining room of Nero’s Golden House.'
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D. Hemsoll. ‘The Laurentian Library and Michelangelo’s architectural method’,
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Emulating antiquity: Renaissance buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo
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D. Hemsoll. ‘Michelangelo’s St Peter’s and a neglected early drawing.’ In
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D. Hemsoll. ‘Palladio’s architectural orders, from practice to theory.’
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D. Hemsoll with P. Davies. ‘Renaissance balusters and the Antique.'
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Hemsoll is currently the Deputy Editor of the peer-reviewed journal
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Hemsoll is a specialist in classical and Renaissance architecture.
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D. Hemsoll with P. Davies. ‘Sanmicheli through British Eyes.' In
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Imitation, Representation and Printing in the Italian Renaissance
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edited by M. Basso, et al. Campisano Editore: Rome, 2014.
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edited by N. Avcioğlu and A. Sherman. Ashgate: Farnham, 2015.
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Architecture and Architectural Sculpture in the Roman Empire
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Select journal articles and contributions to edited volumes
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that questioned whether it had been used as a temple. With
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D. Hemsoll. ‘The Architecture of Nero’s Golden House.' In
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Architecture and Interpretation: Essays for Eric Fernie
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and World Art Studies, an album amicorum in his honour
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D. Hemsoll. ‘Raphael’s new architectural agenda.' In
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The Gordian Knot, Studi offerti a Richard Schofield,
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Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
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