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CV of Maria Stella Bottai
Personal information Maria Stella Bottai (Rome, Italy 04/10/1974)
Address
via Trionfale 172, 00136 Rome - Italy
[email protected] ; stellabottai.wordpress.com
Education
Master in Fundraising and European Union Projects, ArteData Italy, 2011;
Ph.D. in Art History, University Sapienza of Rome in collaboration with
Helsingin Yliopisto, 2010;
Post-graduate diploma of the School of Medieval and Modern Art History,
University Sapienza of Rome, 2003 (70/70 cum laude);
Graduation in Contemporary Art History, University Sapienza of Rome, 2003
(110/110 cum laude).
Work experiences
Coordinator of the Visual Art section of the blog Cultfinlandia.it,
promoted by the Finnish Embassy in Italy (cultfinlandia.it)
Co-curator of scientific contents and image copyright for the multimedia
exhibition project Donne d’arte [Women in art], Centro Culturale Trevi,
Bolzano, 12.11. 2012 – 28.2.2013
Collaboration to the exhibitions’ organisation at the Rome galleries z2o |
Sara Zanin and Erica Fiorentini Arte Contemporanea (2012)
Curator of the exhibition Marita Liulia - Choosing My Religion & Tarot,
CCRN – Neumünster Abbey, Luxembourg (7.12.2011 - 5.1.2012)
Collaboration to the educational program of the exhibition Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones e il mito dell’Italia nell’Inghilterra vittoriana,
23.2 – 12.6.2011, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna of Rome (also author
of the catalogue entries, see Publications)
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Lecturing on Artistic experimentations in the 20 century within the Course
Introduction to Media Art and Culture (Prof. Teemu Leinonen and Marita
Liulia), Media Lab/Taik, Helsinki 2011
Teaching art history at the Master in Art Management Psychology,
Department of Psychology of University Sapienza of Rome 2010
Teaching at the seminar Pittura murale nell’Ottocento europeo, Art History
department of University Sapienza of Rome 2009
Presentation of the book by Lorella Scacco Northwave – A survey on
videoart in Nordic countries, Silvana editoriale. Milan Triennale 2009
Jury member in Prix Mobius Nordica, Kiasma Theater, Helsinki 2007
Teaching art history in public Italian high schools, 2005 - 2007
Translations of the exhibition catalogues Manet, Modigliani, MatisseBonnard (from French and English into Italian), Comunicare Organizzando
Ltd, Rome 2005 - 2007
Co-curator of the exhibition Marita Liulia Tarot, première in Rome 2003
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Curator of the exhibition Antonio Bolognese e il suo tempo, Galleria
Antiquaria Le Myricae in Rome, 2005
Assistant for radio and tv programmes in Rai - Radiotelevisione italiana (Rai
- Italian broadcasting company) 2002 - 2005
Press officer for the cultural event CentoEventiGiorni- Città della Pace, in
collaboration with the Press agency AdnKronos Cultura, Rome 2002
Proof-reading of content and usability of the Cd-Roms ‘Cd’Art’, ‘Missione
Van Gogh’, ‘Capolavori della letteratura’, ‘Tell me More’, L’Espresso
Publishing, 2000-2002
Translation of Art documentaries (Carlo Scarpa, Richard Haas, Museum of
Grenoble) for the Prodest Fonoroma Ltd.
Publications
Il dialogo tra classicismo e tradizione nordica. Il percorso di Lilli Stenius
(with L. Scacco) in Lilli Stenius. Eco del silenzio, De Luca editore, 2013
Catalogue entries for the contemporary art works in the Collection of the
Rome Foundation (to be published May 2013)
In solitudine nella tempesta. Helene Schjerbeck in mostra a Helsinki, in Art e
Dossier, July-August 2012, pp. 40-45
Akseli Gallen-Kallela. La passione viene dal Nord, in Art e Dossier, February
2012, pp. 44-49
”Miksi matkustat Italiaan?” Italialainen fresko suomalaisessa taiteessa 1800ja 1900-luvulla, in ‘Italiassa ja Saksanmaalla − Suomalaistaiteilijoiden
matkassa Saksassa ja Italiassa 1830−1930’ ed. by T. Jokinen and H.
Selkokari, SKR, Helsinki, 2011
Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Contemporary Italian Art Criticism. Unpublished
documents from the archives of the Gallen-Kallela Museum, in Fill Your
Soul! Paths of Research into the Art of Akseli Gallen-Kallela, The GallenKallela Museum 50th anniversary book, The Gallen-Kallela Museum
publication, Porvoo 2011, pp. 119-124
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones e il mito dell’Italia
nell’Inghilterra vittoriana, (catalogue entries), 23.2 – 12.6 2011, Galleria
Nazionale di Arte Moderna of Rome, Electa Publishing
Nino Muratori, in Ah che rebus! Cinque secoli di enigmi fra arte e gioco in
Italia, (catalogue entry), 17.12.2010 – 8.3.2011, Palazzo Poli, Rome,
Mazzotta Publishing Company, Milan
Influenze dell’arte italiana in Finlandia tra Ottocento e Novecento, in Il Veltro
– Rivista della Civiltà Italiana, nn. 5-6, 2009, pp. 63-73
Collezionare i Primitivi italiani in Finlandia alla fine dell’Ottocento, in
Settentrione – Rivista di studi italo-finlandesi, n. 21, 2009, pp. 139-150 (Also
online http://predella.arte.unipi.it/predella23/)
Marisa Volpi, L’occhio senza tempo – Saggi di critica e storia dell’arte
contemporanea, (co-editor), Lithos 2008
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Allegory and Light, in Grandi temi della pittura, (co-author), De Agostini
publishers 2007
Enciclopedia Treccani per Ragazzi (Author of entries: African art, Baroque,
Canova, Futurism, Impressionism, Informal art, Manet, Monet, Pollock,
Turner, Van Gogh) 2006
Marita Liulia – Art in the Age of availability, (co-author), Amos Anderson Art
Museum and Medeia Ltd., on the occasion of the Marita Liulia Tarot
exhibition opening in Amos Anderson Museum, Helsinki 2004
Keats e la visione Pre-Raffaellita del Medioevo, in RolSa – Rivista online di
Storia dell’arte of the University Sapienza of Rome, n. 1, 2004, pp. 61-75
(Also online: Four Keats poems and the Pre-Raphaelite vision of the Middle
Age, Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dgr/bottai1.html)
Marita Liulia, (co-author), Lithos 2003
Gran Bretagna, in 19th century painting and sculpture, Enciclopedia
Universale dell’Arte, Electa publisher, Milan 2000
Fra vero e verosimile. Opere di scuola napoletana del secondo Ottocento.
(Bibliography), 2.4 – 28.5.2000, L’Aquila, Castello Cinquecentesco
Books and exhibitions reviews for the art magazines: Diana, Predella,
Exibart, Arte e Critica, BTA 1999-
Conferences
Il Kalevala. La mitologia finlandese nei dipinti di Akseli Gallen-Kallela,
lecture in Italian, Le origini nordiche dei poemi omerici, Sapienza University
of Rome, June 6th 2012
Le Nord vierge et vigoureux. Gallen-Kallela et les peintres nordiques à la
Biennale de Venise et dans les pages d'Emporium, symposium : Le Nord.
Un mythe artistique, musical et littéraire, Musée d’Orsay – Institut
Finlandais, Paris, March 30-31st 2012
Marita Liulia Tarot. A Multimedia Work of Art, Tarot Correspondences
conference, PCA/ACA conference in San Antonio (Texas), April 20-23, 2011
“Why do you travel to Italy?” Italian and Finnish artists at the turn of the
century, lecture in English, Ilmaisu ja Muotokieli Muutoksessa – Italian
Rakennus ja Kuvataide Keskiajalta Renessanssiin, Villa Lante - Institutum
Romanum Finlandiae, November 30, 2009
“Perchè vai in Italia?” Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Juhani Aho e altri finlandesi in
Italia tra Otto e Novecento, lecture in Italian, Società Dante Alighieri,
Helsinki, November 16, 2009
The question of national style – Murals in Italy and in Finland at the turn of
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the 20 Century, paper in English, European Revivals – Myths, Legends and
Dreams of a Nation, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, May 6-8, 2009
Marita Liulia - Nuove frontiere dell’arte e dell’artista. Esempio di un nuovo
rapporto con il pubblico, paper at the conference Senso dell’arte, Sensi
nell’arte: sinestesie di fine millennio, University Sapienza of Rome 2004
Internships
Press office assistant at Christie’s Rome, 2001-2002; Catalogue office
assistant at the Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna of Rome and
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collaboration to the didactic apparatus of the exhibition Fra vero e
verosimile. Opere di scuola napoletana del secondo Ottocento, ed. by G.
Piantoni, L’Aquila, 2000; Curator assistant and Press office at MLAC Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea of the Università La Sapienza of
Rome for the exhibition L’Age d’Or di Forma 1 - Achille Perilli, 2000; XXth
century and Impressionist art department assistant at Christie’s Paris, 1999
Languages
Advanced English and French; basic Finnish
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