Phd in HISTORY OF ART

Research: The Poetry and Theatre of Visual Artists in Seventeenth-Century Florence: Burlesque Forms and Entertainment Versatility

Sergio Taddei (Rome, 1993) completed his historical-artistic studies at La Sapienza University of Rome, obtaining a Bachelor degree in 2015 (supervisor, Prof. Claudia Cieri Via) and a Master degree in 2018 in History of Art (supervisor Prof. Novella Barbolani di Montauto, co-supervisor Marco Ruffini). At the same time, he cultivated musical studies, graduating in 2017 in Composition at the "Santa Cecilia" Conservatory in Rome and particularly focusing on analysis and performance of Early Music,from the Renaissance to Classical period. In 2021 he has been enrolled in the Scuola di Specializzazione in Historical-Artistic Heritage at the University of Florence, as part of which he carried out an internship at the "Casa Buonarroti Foundation" in Florence as an assistant at library and archive. He has collaborated with various Art History and Musicology journals and editorial projects, favoring issues relating to the connection between artistic, theatrical and musical production in the Early Modern Age. He recently participated as a speaker in various conferences, including “Marks of Music: Sound and Visualization in the Early Modern Period” (17/19 May 2023), at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, and at the international conference "The Medici Beyond Florence. Art and Politics, 1530–1648" (16/18 March 2022), at the "Kunsthistorisches Institut" in Florence. In July 2023 he obtained a PhD scholarship in History of Art at La Sapienza University of Rome, with the project "Comedy, Satire, and Everyday narratives in Seventeenth-Century Florentine Art: Visual Evidence and Artists' Writings"