Phd in HISTORY OF ART

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Novella Barbolani is Assistant professor (Ricercatore universitario) in History of Modern Art at “La Sapienza” University of Rome (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia) since 2010. She teaches Storia del disegno, dell’incisione e della grafica. She graduated in Lettere Moderne at the University of Florence. She subsequently received her diploma at the Scuola di Specializzazione (M.A. degree) in Art History at the University of Pisa and, at that same institution, received in 2004 her Ph.D. with highest ranking. She has received a research grant as Research Fellow (2004-2009) from the Department of History of the Arts at the University of Florence, where she was teaching a course in Storia comparata dell’arte europea (2008-2010). From 2003 to 2006, she collaborated on the national wide project entitled I luoghi della grande decorazione murale a Firenze e in Toscana nel Cinquecento e Seicento (Prin 2003) and was part of the research team for the project Arte al servizio del potere. Modelli celebrativi di committenza negli Stati italiani tra tardo Medioevo ed età moderna (Prin 2007).
In 2015 as Prinicipal Investigator she obtained the Sapienza funding for the Research programme Disegni dall'antico: scambi culturali tra Firenze, Roma e l'Inghilterra nel Settecento. She has participated on the scientific committees of various exhibitions and publications. Her research focuses on the painting of the late Cinquecento and Seicento with special interest in landscape painting, drawings and the history of collections. Over the past two decades her publications include not only the monographic study on Pandolfo Reschi (1996) but other contributions that include articles, essays and contain discoveries (provenance and collections) on groups of drawings from the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe of the Uffizi, the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung of Munich and other European collections and essays and entries for numerous exhibitions: “Filosofico umore” e “maravigliosa speditezza”. Pittura napoletana del Seicento dalle collezioni medicee (2007); Federico Barocci, 1535-1612. L’incanto del colore, una lezione per due secoli (Siena 2009); Caravaggio e caravaggeschi a Firenze (Firenze 2010); Puro, semplice e naturale nell’arte a Firenze tra Cinque e Seicento (Firenze 2014). She published articles on Livio Mehus (2000, 2016, 2017) and on the Niccolò Gabburri’s collection of drawings (2006, 2007, 2011). She is presently preparing a study on the collection of drawings of Gabburri based on the unplished inventory preserved at the Fondation Custodia, Paris.
She was director of the exhibition Colorire naturale e vero. Figline, il Cigoli e i suoi amici (2008) and has participated as a speaker at national and international conferences. She’s editorial assistant for “Paragone”. From 2016 she’s Accademico d’onore of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno (AADFI), Florence