PhD in CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY AND ITS RECEPTION: ARCHAEOLOGY,
PHILOLOGY, HISTORY

Beatrice Cacciotti is  Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and she teaches History of Archaeology. She was external Supervisor of PhD at the Universities of Barcelona (UB and UAB) and Madrid (Complutense). She also taught abroad for Master’s degree programmes of Antiquities and Arts and since 2020 she is Advisor Professor of the International Doctoral Committee “Art i Musicologia Història de l’Art” at the  Autonoma University of Barcelona.

She earned her MA in 1991 (110/110 cum laude) and her PhD in 1998 at the University of Rome Tor Vergata; in 1994 she received an affiliated sholarship of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid and from 1995 to 1998 she had a PhD scholarship from Tor Vergata University.

In the years 1993-2005 she held research contracts from Ministry of Science and Tecnology of Madrid, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and MIBACT and postdoctoral grants and research fellowships from Tor Vergata University and MIUR. She carried out her research activity in England (London: Warburg Institute, Eton College), Spain (Madrid: Archaeology Department of CSIC, Museo del Prado, Instituto Arqueológico Alemán) and Germany (Dresden, Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen).

She has cooperated with prestigious public and private museums, publishers and international organizations (Soprintendenze Archeologiche di Roma e del Lazio, Sovrintendenza Capitolina, Comitato Nazionale per lo Studio delle Opere di Pirro Ligorio, Cultural Heritage Office of USA Embassy; Madrid: Museo del Prado, Instituto arqueológico Alemán, Real Academia de la Historia, Fundación Casa de Alba; Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico).

She was Italian Staff-Member of the Spanish projects, under the auspicies of the Universities of Barcelona and Sevilla, funded by the Ministery of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) on: “El sarcófago romano en Hispania” (HAR2017-84907-P, 2017-2022); "Itálica adrianea: la Nova Urbs. Análisis arqueológico del paradigma urbano y su evolución, y contrastación del modelo" (University of Sevilla,  Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación de España 2017-2020);  “The sculptural masculine portrait in the anticuarian collections. Function, chronology and ways of restoration” (HAR2012-35861-Plan Estatal 2013-16 Excelencia-Proyectos I+D); “Proyecto Marmora” (HAR2013-42078-Plan Estatal 2013-16 Excelencia-Proyectos I+D) and "Antiguo o moderno. Encuadre de la escultura de estilo clásico en su periodo correspondiente" (HAR2009-10798; 2010-2012).

At the present day she is scientific Partner of  the Spanish project on:“ANTIQUAE FEMINAE. El retrato escultórico femenino de estilo clásico: contextos antiguos y anticuarios, análisis y reconstrucción digital” (PID 2022-137896OB, 2024-2026) funded by MINECO too.

She was scientific and organizing committee Member of Internacional Conferences (2001, 2004, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2019, 2022) in partnership with University Autónoma and Museu d’Arqueología de Catalunya of Barcelona, University of Sevilla, Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología at Rome, University Autonoma of Madrid, Univerity of Trier. She took part in the organization of various Exhibitions in Italy and abroad. She has given papers (about fourty) in seminars and conferences inland and abroad.

Her main fields of research are: the revival of antiquity, the antiquities collections and the roman antiquarian market from the Renaissance to the 20^th century. In particular she contributed to define the Spanish collecting. Moreover she studies the manuscripts (historical informations, drawings) of scholars of antiquities (P. Ligorio, A.Chacón, F. Bianchini, P. L. Ghezzi, G. Zoega) with the aim to collect unpublished data on the excavations of Rome and Latium vetus. The history of the excavations has allowed to associate the antiquities with archaeological sites and to reconstruct the original decorative context. She has also focused her researches on the survival of the antique portraiture from the Renaissance to the Neo-Classicism. Other research interests concern the diffusion and the trasmission of iconographic models and oriental cults in Spain and Italy.

She has published extensively on these arguments. In fact her publications include the monography on Chigi’s collection and more than 80 papers in periodicals, collective books and conference proceedings about various aspects of Roman (Caro, Este, Ludovisi, Pamphilj, Chigi, Massimo, Albani) and Spanish (Mendoza, Carpio, Azara, Alba, Despuig, Godoy) collections and decorative sculptural context in Rome (Celium, Aventinum, Hadrianeum, Pompeius’ Theatre) and in the neighbourhood (Tibur, Tusculum, Antium, Gabii, Aricia, Lanuvium, Albanum).  She has edited-coedited five collective volumes too.