Paul Davies (born October 1955) is professor of the

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at the

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. Davies is a specialist in the architecture of Italy 1350–1650, centrally planned churches and the architectural response to miracles, architecture in Venice and the Veneto, and Italian Renaissance architectural drawings.Staff Profile:Professor Paul Davies.
University of Reading. Retrieved 28 September 2015.

Selected publications

*''Michele Sanmicheli''. Electa, 2004. (with

David Hemsoll David Edward Hemsoll FSA (born March 1954) is a British art and architectural historian, specialising in Renaissance art and architecture, especially that of Rome, Florence, and Venice. He has published numerous catalogue essays and books that add ...

) *''The Paper Museum of Cassiano Dal Pozzo. A.X. Renaissance and later architecture and ornament''. Royal Collection, 2013. *''Architecture and Pilgrimage 1000-1500: the Southern Mediterranean and Beyond''.

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, 2013. (editor with D. Howard and W. Pullan)

References

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