Pratt Institute

Education

Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
B.A., DePauw University

Biography

Heather Horton specializes in Medieval and Renaissance art and architectural history. Her current research focuses on questions of authorship, originality, and imitation, especially in the career of the pivotal writer and architect Leon Battista Alberti. She recently published a new interpretation of Alberti's treatises on painting and is completing a book manuscript titled Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance Crisis of the Author. She has taught at New York University, The City University of New York, Purchase College, and The Cloisters Museum, where she remains a frequent guest lecturer.

Horton, Heather A. (2011). “Equally unknown and unimaginable among the ancients”: Brunelleschi's Dome and Alberti's Lingua Toscana. California Italian Studies Journal, 2(1).
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