Adriano Marinazzo

Adriano Marinazzo is an art and architectural historian, architect, and visual artist, recognized as a distinguished scholar of Michelangelo and Italian Renaissance art and architecture. His body of work spans exhibition catalogs, monographs, and peer-reviewed articles. Marinazzo has taught at the University of Florence and now teaches at William & Mary, focusing his research on the intersections of digital design, art, and science.

Among his key research is a groundbreaking hypothesis on a Michelangelo sketch, identified as the architectural outline for the Sistine Ceiling—possibly the first drawing made in preparation for its decoration. He presented this discovery at the XIV Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2014, later developing a multimedia work on the Sistine Ceiling’s painted architecture and publishing Michelangelo: l’Architettura. His involvement with the Muscarelle Museum began in 2008 with Painting the Italian Landscape and continued with contributions to Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture (2010) and Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane (2013), where he selected drawings and authored architectural catalog entries. He is currently working on special exhibitions at the Muscarelle.