Biography

Rudolf Preimesberger, Professor emeritus of Art History, was born in 1936 in Austria. After receiving his PhD in 1962 at the University of Vienna, he worked at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, and the Zentralinstitut in Munich. He taught at the Universities of Munich, Berlin and Zurich. Until 2001 he was a professor at the Freie Universität Berlin. His main interest is in Italian art in early modern time. Besides studies in works of Bernini,  Cortona, Algardi, Raphael, Van Eyck, Caravaggio, and the genre of portrait, he has published several contributions concerning the Paragone and diverse modalities of the relationship between word and image.

Project Summary

"GENOA-IANUA. S. Maria Assunta di Carignano 1481-1724. Sculptural Decoration and Urban Planning" concentrates on Galeazzo Alessi’s church after its completion in 1606, the  history of its sculptural decoration until 1724, the new role of the facade, and the construction of the Ponte di Carignano connecting it with the city.