Carlo Avilio Curriculum Vitae - Warwick

Carlo Avilio
Institute of Advanced Study, Milburn House,
University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7HS (UK)
Curriculum Vitae
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Research interests
My principal research interests lie in Baroque art, a field that requires an interdisciplinary approach linking
together art history, literature and the history of sciences, along with a close analysis of manuscript sources
and archive documents.
CURRENT POSITION (OCTOBER 2016-)
Early Career Fellow at Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), University of Warwick
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2012-2016
PhD in History of Art (Viva 14 March 2017), University of Warwick
Dissertation: ‘Naturalism and the Picaresque in Jusepe de Ribera’s Work’
Supervisor: Dr Lorenzo Pericolo
2003-2006
MPhil in History of Modern Art (Distinction), University of Studies Federico II, Naples
Dissertation: I graffiti di Giovan Battista De Pino (1612-1647) nella chiesa di S. Maria della Sanità a
Napoli
Supervisor: Prof. Paola Santucci
2001
Certificate of Assistant Librarian, Italy (600 hours course)
1997-2002
MA in Conservation of Cultural Heritage (Distinction), University Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples
Dissertation: ‘La catacomba di S. Gaudioso a Napoli: aspetti topografici e iconografici’
Supervisor: Prof. Leonardo di Mauro
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
October 2016-March 2017
Early Career Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick (£ 6.110)
2012-2015
Chancellor’s Scholarship, University of Warwick, Three-year fully funded Doctoral Scholarship (£ 57.000)
2013
Association of Art Historians (UK) – John Fleming Travel Award for my PhD proposal (£ 2.000)
2007
Franco Strazzullo Prize for my MPhil dissertation (£ 3.000)
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles and Chapters in Books
‘Una commedia inedita di Francesco Mastriani: "Il marito di tela"’, Critica letteraria, XXXIX/151 (2011), n.
2, pp. 334-354.
‘Per un primo profilo documentato di Giovan Battista De Pino’, Arte Cristiana. An international review of art
history and liturgical arts, XCVI/849 (2008), pp. 459-464.
(forthcoming) ‘De Pino, Giovan Battista’ [Biographical entry. Il will appear in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani.
Publisher: Treccani].
“La catacomba di San Gaudioso. Le radici della cristianità disegnano nuove prospettive per il quartiere della
Sanità”, in Undergrounds in Naples. I sottosuoli napoletani, ed. Roberta Varriale (Naples: CNR. Istituto di Studi
sulle Società del Mediterraneo, 2009, pp. 91-101, CNR conference proceedings, Naples, November 2007).
‘The Failure of Painting in Jusepe de Ribera′s ″Five Senses″ series’, Dialectics of Faith and Doubt in Seventeenthcentury Spain, edited by Aneta Georgievska-Shine and Matt Ancell, University of Nebraska Press (revised and
resubmitted).
Editor
Editor of the series Scoprire e Riscoprire (3 issues published; Naples: D’Auria, 2008-) (short guides for local
tourism).
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES
(invited) ‘Portens of Nature: Jusepe de Ribera and the Bearded Woman’, Wiesbaden Museum, Laboratorium
Neapel. Plurale Stilbildung, Künstlerkonkurrenz und Wirkungsästhetik in der neapolitanischen
Barockmalerei. Internationale Tagung im Rahmen der Ausstellung “Caravaggios Erben”. Barock in Neapel
(9-11 Fabruary 2017).
‘Paiting Experience: Ribera′s Series of the "Five Senses"’, Warwick University, Department of History of
Art, Research Seminars series (16 March 2016).
‘Comedic and Parodic Aspects in Ribera′s "Lazarillo and the Blind Man"’, Berlin, The Renaissance Society
of America Annual Meeting Conference (26-28 March 2015).
‘Ribera′s Five Senses: Between the New Science and the Picaresque’, New York, The Renaissance Society
of America Annual Meeting Conference (27-29 March 2014).
‘The Art of Reformation’, Warwick University, 1 December 2016 (for undergraduates students)
SEMINAR ORGANIZATION
Research Seminars series, Warwick University, Department of History of Art, academic year 2014/2015.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2012-2016
Private Tuition of Italian Language
2006-2007
Italian literature, Grammar, History of Art, History and Latin in Italian secondary school
NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE
2003-2012
Government Department: responsible for the Artistic Heritage of Naples: inventory and specialist
cataloguing of works of art relating to churches and palazzi of Naples.
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Italian public and private archives and libraries: management of library services and supervisor for digital
libraries projects; cataloguing and digitization of modern and ancient books, and of archival documents
(17th-20th century) using UNIMARC-based software (Aleph, CDS/ISIS), the standards MAG/METS
(based on Dublin Core), and planetary scanners.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Italian, native; English, fluent; Latin and Spanish for Academic purposes.
IT SKILLS
Proficient user of professional scanners and software for cataloguing books, archive documents and works
of art.
MEMBERSHIP AND ASSOCIATION
Renaissance Society of America
Association of Art Historians
Italian Art Society
Referee: Dr Lorenzo Pericolo
Departments of the History of Art
Warwick University, Millburn House
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7HS
[email protected]
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