Niall Atkinson

Niall Atkinson’s research focuses on late medieval and Renaissance Italy and the sensory experience of pre-modern urban life through the prism of architecture and space. Currently, he is exploring ways of digitally visualizing early modern urban soundscapes through GIS technology as well as investigating spatial and cultural disorientation in the accounts of Italian travelers. His publications include a monograph entitled The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016). Atkinson is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago.