Associate Professor of Early Modern Art History (L-ART/02)
Cecilia Vicentini is Associate Professor of Early Modern Art History at eCampus University. For several years, she has taught, as Adjunct Professor, courses on Early Modern Art History and Museology (Department of Humanities) as well as on Art History and Design (Department of Architecture) at the University of Ferrara. She has taken part in various projects funded by the University of Ferrara and in the PRIN Project (2004-2006) on collecting between Rome and its legations in the seventeenth century. Her initial studies focused on the iconographic representations of Classical myths in the sixteenth century in relation to literary sources. She then turned her attention to private collecting between Ferrara and Rome during the seventeenth century, the Ducal art gallery in Modena, and Emilian painting from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
Prof. Vicentini has published articles in specialized journals such as Paragone, Arte Documento, Rivista di Storia dell'Arte, Studi di Memofonte, and Studi di Storia dell'arte, as well as book chapters in collective volumes, and two monographs on artistic collections in post-Ducal Ferrara (Una storia silenziosa. Il collezionismo privato a Ferrara nel Seicento, Marsilio 2012; La collezione Calcagnini d'Este. Una famiglia e le sue raccolte fra Ferrara e Roma, Campisano 2016). In 2017, she collaborated on the organization of the monographic exhibition dedicated to Carlo Bononi held at the Palazzo dei Diamanti. She has also collaborated with Fondazione Ermitage Italia and the Getty Research Institute.
Currently, she is the Director of the Prisma Research Center at eCampus University, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the DiDiArt Laboratory of the Department of Humanities at the University of Ferrara, as well as the Board PhD Program of National Interest in Cultural Heritage of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, and the PhD Program in Medium and Mediality at eCampus University. She is the Director of the editorial series Imago Memoriae dedicated to the History of Collecting (Paparo Editore).
SSD: L-ART/02
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CURRICULUM: ART, ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY, RESTORATION
MAIN RESEARCH EXPERTISE
History of collecting, Social Art History, Emilian Art between the sixteenth and the seventeenth century, Venetian Art of the sixteenth century, study of the works of art and their literary sources.
Direction of the Research Project based in Cento: “Le città d’Italia di Cesare Orlandi”, with the support of the Deputazione di Storia Patria di Ferrara, delle Province Parmensi e di Modena e Reggio for the archival research and publication of the volume: ‘Delle Città d’Italia’ di Cesare Orlandi: Emilia.
Coordinator of the Project: Ranieri Varese
DIRECTION OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
Since 2020, referee for: Journal of the History of Collection, Oxford University Press; Critica d’Arte.
Since 2022, Direction of the editorial series Imago Memoriae (Paparo Editore, on the History of collecting).
AFAM INSTITUTIONS’ TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS
Storia dell’arte 1, Accademia del Lusso, Milano (2017-2022, 30 per year)
EXHIBITION ORGANIZATION
July 2020-June 2021: Direction of the project for three Dossier exhibitions held at the Pinacoteca of Ferrara (and Workshop Coordinator for the exhibition concept and design) as part of the Project: “Guardami, sono una storia!” (a collaboration of the Gallerie Estensi with the Laboratorio DiDiArt of the Humanities Department of the University of Ferrara).
Exhibition titles:
–I Portaroli di Giacomo Ceruti della Pinacoteca Nazionale di Brera di Milano (10 July-4 October 2020)
–Et in Arcadia Ego di Guercino delle Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica Barberini Corsini di Roma (16 October-28 February 2021)
–Marte, Venere e Amore di Paolo Veronese della Galleria Sabauda di Torino (5 March 2021-6 June 2021).