PhD in CULTURAL HERITAGE, EDUCATION AND TERRITORY

email: fidanza@lettere.uniroma2.it
phone: 0672595053

room: 41 - 4^ piano

EMPLOYMENT
• 2018-present: Full Professor of History of Early Modern Art; University of Rome, Tor Vergata (Qualified as Full Professor of History of Art through national competitive examination: Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale, 2012 Announcement, first round).
• 2006-2018: Associate Professor of History of Early Modern Art; University of Rome, Tor Vergata.
• 2004-2006: Adjunct Professor of Technical Art History; University of Rome, Tor Vergata.
• 2003-2004: Adjunct Professor of Technical Art History; University of Perugia.

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS
• 2013: Visiting Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Erie, The Behrend College within the course: Italian Renaissance Art of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (at the invitation of Sharon Dale, Professor of History of Art).
• 2011: Visiting Lecturer, Loughborough University (UK), School of the Arts, within the MA Art and Design Studio Practice course (at the invitation of Roberta Bernabei, Lecturer).

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
• 2019-2021: Co-editor of Rivista d’Arte (first published 1903), Leo S. Olschki Publisher, Florence.
• 2011-2019: Member of the editorial board of Rivista d’Arte (first published 1903), Leo S. Olschki Publisher, Florence.

UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• 2020-2022: Delegate of the Rector as Director of "Villa Mondragone," a monumental complex owned by the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.

Ph.D PROGRAMME
• 2022-present: Director of the National Ph.D Programme in Cultural Heritage, University of Rome, Tor Vergata.
• 2018-2021: Director of the Ph.D Programme in Cultural Heritage, Education, and Geography (Beni Culturali, Formazione e Territorio), University of Rome, Tor Vergata.
• 2011-present: committee member of the Ph.D Programme in Cultural Heritage, Education, and Geography (Beni Culturali, Formazione e Territorio), University of Rome, Tor Vergata.

MAIN FIELDS OF RESEARCH
• History of art patronage in the early modern age, with particular reference to the Papal States.
• History of wooden sculpture and furnishings in the Early modern period in Central Italy, in particular in the Papal States and Florence, with emphasis on stylistic and historical aspects of materials and techniques.
• Diagnostics applied to the study of wooden sculpture and painting in the Early modern period.
• History of engraving from the 18th century to the early 19th century, with particular reference to Northern Italy: Milan and Parma.