Paul Blanchard was born in Amsterdam, New York, in 1953. He was graduated
with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Hamilton College, and with a Master
of Arts in Art History from Syracuse University. His scholarly interests
focus on the history of architecture and spatial planning.

An active visual artist as well as an art scholar, he has taught painting,
drawing and the history of Modern art at the European study centers of
several American universities, has shown his own artwork in Europe and the
United States, and has placed work in major private and public collections.
He has published widely in North America, Great Britain, France, and Italy,
and he has contributed from time to time to European and American art
magazines. In recent years he has become increasingly involved with
landscape design, developing large-scale projects for sites in Europe, the
Americas and Africa.

He lives and works in Italy.