Yassin Oulad Daoud

Yassin Oulad Daoud is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. His dissertation will focus on master stone carvers (lapicide/tagliapietre) in the fifteenth-century Italian-speaking world, specifically on problems of design, contracting, labor, technique and skill, interculturality, and reception, in order to better understand their artform in its own terms but also their role in the evolution of Renaissance sculpture and architecture. His other research interests include early Renaissance understandings of and artistic engagements with attention, linear perspective and spatial issues in early modern European art and architecture, art historiography and theory, and collecting and composition. Yassin received his B.A. in History of Art and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.