Phd in HISTORY OF ART

email: alessandro.zuccari@uniroma1.it
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Alessandro Zuccari (Roma 1954) was a professor of Art History in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Aquila, Urbino, Bologna and Firenze (1982-89), and an associate professor at the Università di Pescara, Viterbo and La Sapienza of Roma (1989-2003). From 2003, he was a tenured professor in Art Modern History at La Sapienza. Twice he was appointed director of master’s degree in art and history studies and from 2015 to 2017, coordinator of the PHD’s in Art History. He is national member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, he is also a member of the Accademia dell’Arcadia, of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani and of the Accademia Raffaello di Urbino.
Since 2017, he has been a member of the scientific commisssion of the Scuderie del Quirinale and of the scientific council of the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro (ISCR).
From 2006 to 2017, he was a member of the Comitato d’Indirizzo della Fondazione Roma and from 2017, he has been councilor of the Fondazione Terzo Pilastro Internazionale.
He has been one of the four members of the Art’s Commission of the Banca d’Italia (2002-12) and has been part of the commission named by the Italian President to open to the public the Palazzo del Quirinale in 2015. In 2016/17 he was one of the five members in the steering examining board for the competitive examination of the MIBACT which named civil servants in art history.
He directs the review “Storia dell’Arte”, founded by G. C Argan. He has been part of the scientific committee of the “Archivio Italiano per la Storia della Pietà”, and has been collaborating with others scientific reviews and managing the “Arte e Storia” book series (De Luca edition).
He has participated at PRIN and FIRB’s research project, he has been a national coordinator of the PRIN project on art at the time of Gregorio XIII. He was the president of the National Committee for the 550th anniversary of the dead of Beato Angelico (2005-2009) and secretary treasurer of the National Committee for the 4th century of Caravaggio’s death (2008-2012).
His teaching activity was always backed by an intense scientific production in which he focused on the great masters (such as Angelico, Raffaello, Pulzone, Barocci, Caravaggio, Borromini) and the important artistic and European movement (the Caravaggism, cycles of renaissance and mannerists artists, the religious iconography after the Council of Trento…). These researches have been completed by multiple stays abroad and exchanges with foreign students, which encouraged his participation in important exhibitions and scientific conventions.
As the commission coordinator at the Villa Farnesina (Accademia dei Lincei), he has promoted new studies and restauration intervention of the famous “residenza suburbana” of Agostino Chigi (Galleria delle grottesche, Saletta pompeiana and others rooms). He ordered the permanent collection of the Fondazione Roma: he managed the catalogue of the art works and curated their exhibition in the historic Palazzo Sciarra.