Phd in HISTORY OF ART

email: claudio.zambianchi@uniroma1.it
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room: stanza 18

Claudio Zambianchi (born in Rome, 1958) graduated in Humanities (with a major in art history) in 1984 to in Lettere (storia dell’arte) at the “Sapienza” University of Rome. He took his Master’s of Arts at the Southern Methodist University of Dallas, Texas (1989), and his doctorate in art history at the “Sapienza” University in 1992. His areas of interest are art and art criticism in Britain (late XIX and early XX century); American art of XIX and XX century; Italian art and art criticism after the Second World War; French art of the second half of the XIX century. He has written for exhibition catalogues, art history periodicals, newpaper and magazines. In 2000 he published a book on Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, and in 2007 a general survey on Monet’s work. In 2008 he edited (with Giuseppe Di Giacomo) and introduced a collection of major art criticism texts of the XX century. In 2011 he published a book about XX century art: from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. In 2012 he translated and edited the Italian edition of Clive Bell’s Art (1914). He taught at the Academies of Fine Art in Turin and Milan. Since 1998 he’s been associate professor of XIX and XX century art at the “Sapienza” University of Rome. He’s currently (since January 2018) full professor of XIX and XX century art at the “Sapienza” University of Rome . He was co-ordinator of didactic for the Facoltà di Scienze Umanistiche from its foundation to 2009 and deputy dean for one year (November 2005 to October 2006). He’s currently Erasmus coordinator for the Department of Art History and Performing Arts at the Sapienza University and deputy director of DIGILAB. He was a member of the Board of the Association of Art History University Professors (CUNSTA) for six years (2006- 2011). He sits in the Committee of the Doctorate in Art History at the Sapienza University. He’s the co-editor of the online journal «Piano B». He’s co-ordinator of the editing committee of the series of open access ebooks «Arti», published by the Casa Editrice Sapienza for the sections ff Art History and Performing Arts of the Department of History Anthropology Religions Visual and Performing Arts of the Sapienza University.