Giovanna Guidicini
Giovanna Guidicini
- Senior Lecturer in History of Architecture and Urban Studies
- Job Title
- Senior Lecturer in History of Architecture and Urban Studies
- School or Academic Area
- Mackintosh School of Architecture
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- Mackintosh School of Architecture
- G.Guidicini@gsa.ac.uk
- Contact Number
- 0141 3534667
- Professional Address
- 167 Renfrew St, Glasgow G3 6RQ
- Country
- UK
Biography
Giovanna Guidicini holds a Laurea Magistrale (Master’s Degree) in Architecture from the Università degli Studi di Ferrara and a Ph.D. in History of Architecture from the University of Edinburgh. She is registered with Architecs Registration Board in UK since 2018, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2013.
Giovanna's research focuses on the distinct contribution of Scottish culture to the artistic and architectural scene of early modern Europe, particularly regarding the role of the urban environment as performative space during triumphal entries. Giovanna is currently working on a digital acoustic recreation of Charles I's entry (Edinburgh, 1633). Her research investigates the representation of sacred, symbolic, ritual, and geographical space through different media (it being real, imagined, painted, literary, or digital) with particular reference to the Trinity altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes (1478), and to Flemish merchant Anselm Adornes’ involvement in the commission and in Scottish culture.
Research Interests
space and spatial rituals, triumphal entries, courtly and civic ceremonies, early modern period, Renaissance, Scottish art and architecture, spatial representations, digital media, painted and drawn spaces, Edinburgh, Italian palaces and villas, Bologna, architecture of power
Grants
2024 - Small Research Grant, granted by the Royal Society of Edinburgh
2016 - Geoffrey Barrow Research Fund, granted by the Society for Scottish Medieval and Renaissance Studies
2013 - Kress Travel Grant, granted by the Renaissance Society of America
2012 - Scott Opler Emerging Scholar Fellowship, granted by the Society of Architectural Historians
2011 - Paul Mellon Research Support Grant, granted by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
PGR Supervision Interests
Early modern art and architecture, Scottish architecture, the Renaissance, heritage and conservation
Teaching
Giovanna has taught at the Università di Ferrara, at the University of Edinburgh, and at Plymouth University; she had taught both architecture in the studios and lecture-based courses in Architectural History. She joined The Glasgow School of Art in 2014, where she teaches foundation core courses in the history of architecture, and specialised courses on the architecture and cities of early modern Europe, and on the history and theory of conservation.
Latest Additions
- Guidicini, Giovanna, Coombs, Bryony and Harrison, Jill, eds. (2026) Anselm Adornes: Travel, Trade, Cultural Exchange, and Intellectual Networks in Scotland, Bruges, and Jerusalem. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 31 . Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium. ISBN 9782503610078
- Guidicini, Giovanna (2026) Anselm Adornes’ Itinerary: Exploring and Representing Spaces of Spirituality through a Textuary Atlas of the Mediterranean World. In: Anselm Adornes Travel, Trade, Cultural Exchange, and Intellectual Networks in Scotland, Bruges, and Jerusalem. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies . Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium. ISBN 9782503610078
- Guidicini, Giovanna (2026) Book review of: Designed to Impress: Guido Mazenta’s Plans for the Entry of Gregoria Maximiliana of Austria into Milan (1597). Janis Bell, Elisa Ruiz Garcia, Silvio Leydi, and Stefano Bruzzese. Renaissance Quarterly, 79 (1). ISSN 0034-4338 (Print); 1935-0236 (Online)
- Guidicini, Giovanna (2026) St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross, Scotland: Engagement, Representation, and Conservation. In: Un Dialogo Possibile: Rappresentare e conservare il Contemporaneo. Maggioli Editore.
- Guidicini, Giovanna (2025) Early Modern Songscapes, English ayres & their dynamic acoustic environments, website. Early Modern Digital Review. ISSN 2562-9263
- Guidicini, Giovanna (2024) A champion “large of portratour”: Robert the Bruce as “Giant” in Anti-Tudor Propaganda. In: Giants and Dwarfs in European Art and Culture (c. 1350-1700): Real, Imagined, Metaphorical. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, pp. 155-182. ISBN 9789048554041
- Guidicini, Giovanna (2023) 'Coming into View: Eric Watt's photographs of Glasgow' Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, 4 March 2023 to 31 July 2023. International Review of Scottish Studies, 48 (2). pp. 129-132. ISSN 1923-5755
- Guidicini, Giovanna (2021) Digitalising Experiential Celebrations in the Early Modern Civic Space: A Methodological Investigation of Augmented Reality as Interpretative Tool. DSH: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. pp. 109-120. ISSN 0268-1145
- Guidicini, Giovanna (2021) Borders in Borderland: Scottish frontiers as makers and markers of national and urban identity. The Drouth (67). ISSN 1474-6190
- Guidicini, Giovanna (2020) Triumphal Entries and Festivals in Early Modern Scotland: Performing Spaces. European Festival Studies: 1450-1700 . Brepols Publishers. ISBN 978-2-503-58541-3
