Phd in HISTORY OF ART

email: annamaria.dachille@uniroma1.it
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Anna Maria D’Achille graduated in History of Art and attended the Postgraduate School in History of Medieval and Modern Art at Sapienza University of Rome. In 1981 she was awarded a scholarship by the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca. In 1993 she became Researcher in History of Medieval Art at the University of Cagliari, and then at Sapienza University. From 1997 to 2005 she lectured History of Medieval Art at the Universities of L’Aquila and Roma Tre and at the Postgraduate Schools in History of Medieval and Modern Art, at the LUMSA (Palermo) and at the University for Foreigners in Perugia. In 2001 she became Associate Professor in History of Medieval Art at Sapienza University of Rome and in 2019 became Full professor in the same University. She is member of the Scientific Board of the PhD programme in History of Art at Sapienza University. Since 1992 she has contributed to several research projects funded by her University, by her Department and by the Ateneo Federato delle Scienze umane, delle Arti e dell’Ambiente; furthermore, she took part to the National Coordination Board of PRIN 2009 and 2017. From 1984 to 2002 she was editor in chief of the Enciclopedia dell’Arte Medievale (Treccani), directed by Angiola Maria Romanini; since 1995 she has been member of the Scientific Board, then Managing Board, of periodicals such as Arte Medievale and RolSa.
She is member of the Scientific Board of the Associazione Italiana Storici dell’Arte Medievale and correspondent member of the Società Romana di Storia Patria. On the behalf of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities she became member of the “National Board for the celebration of the seventh centenary of the death of Arnolfo di Cambio” (2002-2008). She has taken part to the planning boards of several congresses and exhibitions. She has focused especially on Romanesque and Gothic sculpture in central and southern Italy; on funeral monuments in Tuscany, Umbria, Latium; on Arnolfo di Cambio; on Roman painting in the 12th-13th centuries; on religious iconography (e.g. the representation of the Trinity between East and West). Moreover, she has studied in depth the earliest examples of history of historiography on Medieval art in France and in Italy between the 18th and the 19th centuries, particularly focusing on Aubin-Louis Millin.