Andrea Bacchi teaches History of Modern Art at Bologna University. His main research fields are north italian painting in the Renaissance and Italian Sculpture from the 16th-19th century. As well as essays and articles for various journals and books, he has published: Il conoscitore d’arte. Sculture dal XV al XIX secolo della collezione di Federico Zeri (1989), Dipinti ferraresi dalla collezione Vittorio Cini (1990), Francesco del Cossa (1991), Scultura del ‘600 a Roma (with Susanna Zanuso 1996), Bernini. La scultura in San Pietro (with Stefano Tumidei, 1998), Scultura a Venezia da Sansovino a Canova (with Susanna Zanuso, 2000), Prospero Clemente: uno scultore manierista nella Reggio del Cinquecento (2001), Scultura in Trentino. Il Seicento e il Settecento (with Luciana Giacomelli, 2003), Bernini e gli allievi (with Stefano Pierguidi, 2008). In April 2014 he was appointed to direct the Federico Zeri Foundation in Bologna
Academic background
1983 Graduation from the Bologna University Faculty of Arts with an Art History thesis on: La formazione di Ercole Roberti e la cultura artistica a Bologna e a Ferrara dal 146O al 1480 (supervisor Professor Carlo Volpe).
1987 Qualified in the National Competition for 10 art historian posts at Superintendencies of Artistic and Historical Heritage
1995 PhD from the Bologna University Department of Visual Arts with a thesis entitled: Pierre Etienne Monnot (1657-1733): uno scultore tardobarocco tra Roma e l'Europa
Study grants
1984 Study grant at the “Roberto Longhi” Foundation for art history studies, Florence.
1987 Gazzoni Frascara fellowship awarded by the Bologna University Department of Visual Arts
2001 Fellowship at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies
2005 Fellowship at the Getty Research Institute of Los Angeles
Academic career
1991 - 2000 Modern Art History Researcher at the Trento University Faculty of Arts
2000 – Associate professor of Modern Art History at the Trento University Faculty of Arts
2001 - 2004 Director of the 3-year Degree Programme in Science of the Cultural Heritage at the Trento University Faculty of Arts
2004 – 2006 Director of the MA Degree Programme in Management and Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the Trento University Faculty of Arts
2006 Leader of the Trento Research Unit for the PRIN project: Scultori lombardi, veneti ed emiliani in Europa: 1450-1600
2012 – Associate Professor of Modern Art History at the Bologna Department of Arts
2014 – Declared eligible for the post of 1st-grade professor at the National Scientific Qualifying Competition 2012
Professional and scientific posts held
1996 – Founder and Director of the Review ‘Nuovi Studi' along with Daniele Benati, Andrea De Marchi, Francesco Frangi, Giancarlo Gentilini and Alessandro Morandotti.
1998 – 2005 Scientific consultant to the Federico Zeri Foundation (Bologna University)
2001 - 2004 Member of the Board of Diectors at MART (Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto)
2002 - 2006 Member of the editorial committee of the review ‘Studiolo’
2002 - 2011 Member of the scientific committee of the Castello del Buonconsiglio Provincial Museum of Art, Trento
2005 – Member of the international scientific committee of the Federico Zeri Foundation (Bologna University)
2008 – Member of the editorial committee of ‘Studi trentini di scienze storiche’ – second section
2013 – Member of the Scientific Board of the Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage/Activities and Tourism
2013 – Member of the editorial committee of ‘Arte Veneta’
2014 – Director of the Federico Zeri Foundation (Bologna University)
2018 Member of the scientific committee of the Castello del Buonconsiglio Provincial Museum of Art, Trento
Exhibitions curated
1989 Il conoscitore d'arte. Sculture dal XV al XIX secolo della collezione di Federico Zeri, Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli
1999 “La bellissima maniera”. Alessandro Vittoria e la scultura veneta del Cinquecento, Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio Museum
2000 La donazione Federico Zeri. Cinquanta sculture per Bergamo, Bergamo, Accademia Carrara
2002 “Il Michelangelo incognito”. Alessandro Menganti e le arti a Bologna nell'età della Controriforma, Bologna, Museo Civico Medievale
2008 Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture, Los Angeles, The J.Paul Getty Museum; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada
2008 Rinascimento all'antica. Andrea Riccio e il suo tempo, Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio Museum
2009 I marmi vivi. Gian Lorenzo Bernini e la nascita del ritratto barocco, Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello
2017 Bernini, Rome, Galleria Borghese
2018 L’Eterno e il tempo tra Michelangelo e Caravaggio, Forlì, Musei San Domenico