PhD in ITALIAN STUDIES AND ART HISTORY

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Barbara Agosti was born in Milan in 1965. She studied at Pavia University and at the Scuola Normale di Pisa, where she obtained her PhD in History of Art in 1993. After a postdoctoral grant at the Accademia della Crusca (1993-1994), she taught History of art criticism and Artistic literature at the Calabria University. Since 2007-2008 she teaches at the University of Tor Vergata, where she is full professor of History of Modern Art. From 2009 to 2012 she was the coordinator of the MA in Art History. She also is a member of the PhD Academic Board. She is a member of the scientific board of several journals of the field. She co-organised two international conferences: one at the Kunsthistorisches Institut of Florence (Giorgio Vasari e il cantiere delle Vite del 1550, 2012) and another one at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome (Raffaello a Roma. Restauri e ricerche, 2014). She was the organizer of two study-day at the Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Corsini in cooperation with the Soprintendenza (Intorno a Marcello Venusti, 2015 and L’autunno della Maniera, 2016). In 2019 she organized another study-day at the Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Barberini in cooperation with the Fondazione Casa Buonarroti di Firenze (Tommaso de' Cavalieri arbitro del gusto nella Roma della seconda metà del Cinquecento, 2019). In 2019 she co-curated the exhibition Raffaello e gli amici di Urbino (Urbino, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche). In 2017 she was designated by the MiBACT as a member of the National Committee for the celebration of the five-hundred years from the death of Leonardo da Vinci. In 2021 she was selected among the members of the scientific committee of the Gallerie Nazionali d'Arte Antica di Roma Barberini Corsini, by designation of the Consiglio superiore dei Beni culturali e paesaggistici. Since 2021 she is a member of the committee for the Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale for the academic field 10/B1 (History of Art). Her research activity and her main publications concern the artistic culture of the Modern Age with particular attention to 16th and 17th centuries and to the relationships between different contexts and traditions.