David Mayernik’s work has been devoted to the classical ideas and arts of the Italian Renaissance for more than three decades, and he has become the leading exemplar of the Renaissance ideal in art and architecture. He is an urban designer, architect, artist, and author who has won numerous awards and competitions. His book, Timeless Cities: An Architect’s Reflections on Renaissance Italy, was published by Westview Press (Icon Editions) in 2003 (paperback 2005). His essay on Giulio Romano’s architecture and frescoes at the Palazzo Te was published in Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture (Routledge, 2006). He has a chapter in the book on sustainability sponsored by the Prince’s Foundation, Green Living (Rizzoli US and Tradition & Sustainability, Compendium Publ. UK, 2010), and his work for TASIS is featured in the book New Palladians (Artmedia Press, 2010). He has contributed two chapters to the forthcoming book The Capriccio (ed. L. Steil, Ashgate). He is the co-editor with Taeho Paik of the online Humanist Art Review (www.humanistart.net). In addition to teaching as a tenured professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and Rome, he has taught in the Graduate Fine Art program of the New York Academy of Art, in the Institute for the Study of Classical Architecture, and in the University of Virginia’s Erasmus-Jefferson Summer Institute in Tuscany. He was a visiting lecturer with the Prince’s Foundation summer school in Lincoln, England in 2007. David Mayernik is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, & Commerce).
