Phd in HISTORY OF ART

email: raffaella.morselli@uniroma1.it
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Raffaella Morselli, PHD, is full professor of History of Modern Art at Sapienza University of Rome and academic of the Accademia Raffaello di Urbino. She deals with the history of collecting, patronage and the art market in 16th-17th century Italy and is a specialist on Guido Reni, Guercino, Rubens, Francesco Albani and Domenico Fetti. She has been curator of several exhibitions: La celeste galeria (Mantua 2002-2003), on the collection of Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga (Mantua 2005), on Guido Reni (Rome 2022, Galleria Borghese), on masterpieces saved during the Second World War (Arte Liberata 1937-1947 Rome 2022-2023, Scuderie del Quirinale) on Rubens a Palazzo Te. Pittura, trasformazione e libertà (Mantua 7 October-7 January 2023-2024) and on Guercino nello Studio (Bologna Pinacoteca Nazionale, November-February 2023-2024). She was a research fellow at the Getty Center (Los Angeles 1994) and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Visiting scholar (2014) at Casva (Washington D.C.). She serves on numerous scientific committees of museums, exhibitions, international journals and publishing series.

Selected bibliography: Collezionisti e quadrerie nella Bologna del Seicento (Los Angeles, 1998); Repertorio per lo studio del collezionismo bolognese del Seicento (Bologna, 1997); I disegni della Biblioteca Nacional di Rio de Janeiro (Milano, 1995); Le collezioni Gonzaga. L'elenco dei beni del 1626-1627 (2000); Le collezioni Gonzaga. La quadreria (2006); Vivere d'arte. Finanze e carriere d'artisti nell'Italia moderna (Carocci, 2007); Bologna in Painting for profit (YUP, 2010); The court artist in XVII century Italy (Viella, 2014); Discoveries in the archives. Reframing Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Art (Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2019); Rubens 1600-1608 (Viella, 2019); Rubens e la cultura italiana (Viella, 2020); Professione pittore. Il caso Bologna tra 500 e 600 (Marsilio, 2022).