Victor Plahte Tschudi is an art historian and post-doctoral fellow at the Norwegian Institute in Rome/University of Oslo. He teaches architectural history from antiquity to the present. Currently, Tschudi is writing a book on print culture and its effect on baroque and neo-classical concepts of architecture.

Tschudi received a MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and a Ph. D. (Dr. art.) in architectural history from the University of Oslo. In his post-doctoral work, The City Edited, Tschundi explores rhetorical uses of Rome in imagery and models from the Renaissance to the present. He is an associate in the research project, Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture (funded by the Norwegian Research Council from 2011-2014) and co-founder and member of the advisory board for the Nordic Network of Renaissance Studies (NNRS).

 

Selected work:

‘Ancient Rome in the age of copyright. The privilegio and printed reconstructions’, in T. K. Seim and M. Prusac (eds.), ACTA, (forthcoming 2012).

‘The return of the living dead. Antikke statuer i renessansens Roma’, Agora, 3:2010, Oslo: Aschehoug forlag.

‘Palatin som forbilde fra Ligorio til Linstow’, in M. Skoie and G. Vestreim (eds.), Antikken i ettertiden, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 2009.

‘Tampering with Temples; Antiquity in the Catholic Reformation’, in R. T. Eriksen and M. Malmanger (eds.), Imitation, Representation and Printing in the Italian Renaissance, Pisa-Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore 2009

‘Serlio and Sabbioneta: A City Built in Prints’, in C. L. Guest (ed.), Rhetoric, Theatre and the Arts of Design, Oslo: Novus Press 2008.

‘The shape of space. An interpretation of the term ‘area’ in Alberti’s De Re aedificatoria’, in R. T. Eriksen and V. P. Tschudi (eds.), Ashes to Ashes. Art in Rome between Humanism and Maniera, Rome: Edizioni dell’Ateneo 2006.