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ELENA FUMAGALLI, Short Curriculum vitae
Education, Fellowships, Academic appointments
1985-1986 Fellow, Fondazione Lemmermann, Rome.
1986 B.A. in Art History, University of Florence, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. Dissertation: La
fabbrica di Palazzo Medici in piazza Madama a Roma (directors: Prof.ssa Mina Gregori; Prof.
Joseph Connors, Columbia University, New York).
1988-1991 doctoral fellow in Art History, University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Ph.D. dissertation:
Le fabbriche dei Borghese. Committenza di una famiglia romana nel Sei e Settecento.
1991-1992 Pensionnaire de l’Académie de France à Rome. Research project: The Medici in Rome
in the seventeenth century: cardinals, ambassadors, residences.
1992-1993 Assistant to Pierre Rosenberg (Conservateur en Chef du Département des Peintures,
Musée du Louvre) for the Nicolas Poussin exhibition (Paris, Grand Palais, 1994-1995)
1993-1995 post-doctoral fellow in Art History, University of Bologna.
1995-1996 Fellow, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies,
Florence. Research project: Alessandro de’ Medici (1536-1605): ambassador, cardinal, pope.
1996-1997 Appointed to teach social history of art, University of Calabria, Faculty of Arts and
Philosophy.
1997 Post-graduate in Art History, Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia e Storia dell’arte,
University of Siena. Dissertation: Il collezionismo mediceo di natura morta nella prima metà del
Seicento. Affermazione di un gusto.
1997-2000 Appointed Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Naples II.
2000-2005 Associate Professor of Art History, University of Naples II.
From academic year 2005 Associate Professor of Art History, University of Modena and Reggio
Emilia
Elena Fumagalli has published on various aspects of art history, patronage and collecting in Rome,
Florence, Naples and Modena from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century.
She was curator of the exhibitions L’arme e gli amori: Ariosto, Tasso, Guarini e l’arte fiorentina
del Seicento, Florence, Palazzo Pitti, 2001 (with Massimiliano Rossi and Riccardo Spinelli);
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“filosofico umore” e “maravigliosa speditezza”. Pittura napoletana del Seicento dalle collezioni
medicee, Florence, Uffizi, 2007; Florence au Grand Siècle entre peinture et littérature, Ajaccio,
Musée Fesch, 2011 (with Massimiliano Rossi).
Recently she published with Raffaella Morselli The Court Artist in Seventeenth-Century Italy,
Rome, Viella, 2014.
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