Jonathan K. Nelson

Jonathan K. Nelson is a Teaching Professor at Syracuse University Florence and a Research Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2004 he co-authored a major monograph on Filippino Lippi, and co-curated a Botticelli and Filippino exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; he is currently working on a new monograph of Filippino. He co-curated two exhibitions at the Galleria dell’Accademia, dedicated to Michelangelo (2002) and Robert Mapplethorpe (2009).

When he was Assistant Director of Academic Programs at Villa I Tatti, he curated two exhibitions on their website about Bernard Berenson (2012, 2015). Other books include Leonardo e la reinvenzione della figura femminile, (2007) and, with Richard J. Zeckhauser, The Patron’s Payoff: Economic Frameworks for Conspicuous Commissions in Renaissance Italy (2008).