Phd in HISTORY OF ART

email: francesca.manzari@uniroma1.it
phone: 06-49693351

room: Stanza L084, I piano

Francesca Manzari, PhD, is Associate Professor of History of Medieval Art in the Dipartimento di Lettere e Culture Moderne at “Sapienza” University of Rome, where she teaches History of illumination and History of Medieval Art. At “Sapienza” she completed her degree and postgraduate courses, her PhD; there she was Researcher from 2007 to 2017. She is a member of the Scientific Committe of the PhD Programme in History of Art at “Sapienza”.
Her research has centred on liturgical and devotional books and on manuscript illumination in Avignon and Italy, in particular in Lombardy, the Abruzzi, Naples and Rome, from the 13th to the 15th century. She is currently working on Italian Books of Hours, on Late Gothic illumination in Rome, on the origins of the study and collecting of illuminated manuscripts.
She has participated as an author and as part of the editorial staff in the Enciclopedia dell’arte Medievale and in the journal “Arte Medievale”. She is a member of the “Società internazionale di storia della miniatura”. In 2015 she won the Houghton Mifflin Fellowship at Harvard University.
Manzari has published articles in various journals, as “Alumina”, “Art de l’Enluminure”, “Arte Medievale”, “Atti dei Convegni Lincei”, “Bollettino d‘Arte”, “Codices Manuscripti”, “Electronic British Library Journal”, “Gazette du Livre médiéval”, “Mémoires de l‘Académie de Vaucluse”, “Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae”, “Recercare”, “Rivista di Storia della Miniatura”. She has taken part to international conferences organized by the FIDEM (in Barcellona), the IRHT (Paris), the Ecole Française (Rome), the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Rome), the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Florence), the British Library (London), the Academy of Sciences (Vienna) and by the Universities Chieti, L’Aquila, Naples, Padova, Parma, Siena, Turin, Viterbo, Aix-en-Provence, Avignone, Barcelona, Boston, Lleida, Liège, Lausanne, New Orleans, Poznan, Rennes, Toulouse, Salamanca and Zaragoza.
She has edited, with G. Curzi and P. Pistilli, the Papers of the Symposium L’arte in Italia nell’età dei Durazzo (2006). She has contributed to many exhibitions of illuminated manuscripts and she has teken part in the organization of Il Trionfo sul Tempo. Manoscritti illustrati dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, curator A. Cadei (Rome, 2002). With G. Curzi, F. Tentarelli and A. Tomei she was the curator of the exhibition Illuminare l’Abruzzo. Codici miniati tra Medioevo e Rinascimento (Chieti, 2013). She has taken part in the Advisory Board of the exhibition Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts from Boston Collections (Harvard University; Boston, September 2016-January 2017), curators J. Hamburger, W. Stoneman, A.-M. Eze, L. Fagin Davis, N. Netzer.
Among her recent volumes are: Immagini di San Francesco in uno Speculum Humanae salvationis del Trecento (Padova 2006), with C. Frugoni; L’Arte ad Avignone al tempo dei papi. 1310-1410 (Modena 2006); Il Messale Orsini per la chiesa di San Francesco a Guardiagrele. Un libro liturgico tra pittura e miniatura dell’Italia centromeridionale (Pescara 2007); Riscoperta e riproduzione della miniatura in Francia nel Settecento. L’abbé Rive e l’Essai sur l’art de vérifier l’âge des miniatures des manuscrits (Rome 2016), with A. Delle Foglie. With A.M. Piazzoni she has edited Bibbia. Immagini e scrittura nella Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Milan 2017).