Hans Aurenhammer, professor of Art History at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, studied Art History at Vienna and Venice. After completing his doctorate, he taught at the University of Vienna. He has been visiting professor at Venice, Berlin, Dresden, and Paris. He is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, a member of the Centre for Historical Research in Frankfurt and, since 2013, president of the scientific advisory council of the German Centre for Venetian Studies. His research is focused on the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance; the theory of architecture between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries; the historiography and methodology of art, especially the School of Vienna; the relationship between art and science; and the aesthetic experience of modernity.