Research Area
Active Research fields
- Artistic historiography and "applied aesthetics" in the long 19th century
- Canova as a historiographic and aesthetic paradigm
- History of illustrated art publishing
- The teaching of art history in the Italian academies of fine arts
- Exile and political iconology in the Risorgimento
Research projects of the last 5 years
06/2012-10/2014: Research assistant in the ERC-funded project «The European Correspondence to Jacob Burckhardt» (grant agreement number 249483). Principal investigator Dr. Maurizio Ghelardi (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa).
Collaborations
«Firenze città nobilissima»: Topography and Representation. Dir. by Dr. Jan Simane, head of the library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut / Max-Planck-Institut in Florence (Italy).