Anatole Tchikine

Anatole Tchikine is Curator of Rare Books at Dumbarton Oaks, an institute of Harvard University in Washington, DC, where he was previously Assistant Director of Garden and Landscape Studies. An architectural historian and specialist on early modern Italy, he holds a PhD from the University of Dublin, Trinity College. His work addresses the intersections of art and science, including the history of fountain design, botanical gardens, and collecting and representations of nature. He is co-editor of The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century and Military Landscapes (both published by Dumbarton Oaks, 2016 and 2021), and Salutogenic Urbanism: Architecture and Public Health in Early Modern European Cities (Palgrave Macmillan 2023). His book Francesco Ignazio Lazzari’s “Discrizione della Villa Pliniana”: Reimagining Antiquity in the Landscape of Umbria (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021), co-authored with Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey, is the winner of the 2023 Elizabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award by the Society of Architectural Historians.

Education

• PhD in the History of Art and Architecture, University of Dublin, Trinity College
• Honors BA in Philosophy and the History of Art and Architecture, University of Dublin, Trinity College