Paola D`Agostino Curriculum Vitæ

Paola D’Agostino
Curriculum Vitæ
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Special Interests:
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Italian Baroque Sculpture
Artistic relationships between Italy and Spain
Baroque metalwork
Education
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Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’, Naples, Ph.D. in Art History, 2003.
University College London, M. Phil. program in Art History, 1998-1999.
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, M.A. in Art History, 1998.
Università di Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’, Naples, B.A. Art History and Literature with High
Honors, 1996.
Museum experience
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Senior Research Associate, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009-2013.
Co-organizer of the exhibition Bernini: Sculpting in Clay, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, October 3, 2012-January, 6 2013; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, February 3April 14, 2013.
Research Assistant to Bruce Boucher and Peta Motture for the exhibition Earth and Fire:
Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston –
Victoria & Albert Museum, London 1999-2001.
Academic Positions
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Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
One year position as Lecturer in Early Modern History of Art, 2008-2009.
Seconda Università degli Studi, Napoli, Facoltà di Lettere
One year position as Lecturer in Early Modern History of Art, 2008-2009.
Seconda Università degli Studi, Napoli, Facoltà di Lettere
One year position as Lecturer in Early Modern History of Art, 2007-2008.
Society of Architectural Historians, Chicago
Lecturer in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century Art and Architecture (seminar took place in
Naples, Italy), May 13-23, 2008.
Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Facoltà di Lettere
Scuola Interuniversitaria Campana: Specializzazione all’Insegnamento (SICSI)
One-year post as Professor in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art.
Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples
Part time Lecturer in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, 2004-2006.
Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Department Research Associate, 2003.
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Academic Honors and Fellowships:
• Cynthia Hazen Polsky/Metropolitan Museum of Art, Visiting Curator at the American Academy in
Rome, April 8-May 6, 2013.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, two-weeks Professional Stipend, July 5-20, 2011.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sylvain C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund
Fellowship, 2006-2007.
• Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’, Postdoctoral fellowship, 2004-2006.
• The Burlington Magazine, Travel Scholarship in association with the Francis Haskell Memorial
Fund, 2004.
• Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’, Pre-doctoral Fellowship to study in Spain, 2001.
• Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’, Research Fellowship for the PhD program, 19992002.
• European Union, Travel grant to complete an MA program at the Courtauld Institute of Art,
London, 1998.
Publications:
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“The Second Prince of Sansevero’s Tomb: Addenda to a Seventeenth century Neapolitan
Drawing at the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York”, in West 86th. The Journal
of the Bard Graduate Center, 2013, V. 20, No. 2, pp.226-32.
• “Cosimo Fanzago (1591-1678). Autoritratto. Ritratto di Carlo II, Avellino - Piazza Della
Dogana”, in A. Cucciniello, Capolavori della Terra di Mezzo. Opere d’Arte dal Medioevo
al Barocco. Naples, Arte'm, 2012, 214-15.
• Cosimo Fanzago Scultore, Naples, Paparo Edizioni, 2011.
• “Neapolitan Metalwork in New York: Viceregal Patronage and the Theme of the Virgin of
the Immaculate Conception”, in The Journal of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 43,
2008, 117-30.
• “Introduzione e aggiornamento alla Vita di Giuliano Finelli da Carrara, Francesco Mollica
scultori, e Giovanni Domenico Vinacci scultore e gettatore di metalli, in Bernardo De
Dominici, Vite de’ pittori, scultori e architetti napoletani’ (Naples 1742-1745), F. Sricchia
Santoro, A. Zezza (eds.), Naples, Paparo Edizioni 2008, vol. 1, 296-315.
• “Introduzione e aggiornamento alla Vita del Cavalier Cosimo Fanzago pittore e architetto e
bergamasco, di Carlo suo figliolo, di Andrea Falcone e altri suoi discepoli”, in Bernardo De
Dominici, Vite de’ pittori, scultori e architetti napoletani (Naples 1742-1745), F. Sricchia
Santoro, A. Zezza (eds.), Naples, Paparo Edizioni 2008, vol. 1, 331-61.
• “Introduzione e aggiornamento alle Notizie di Pietro Ceraso, Agostino Ferraro, Aniello e
Michele Perrone, Domenico di Nardo e de’ loro discepoli scultori, in Bernardo De
Dominici, Vite de’ pittori, scultori e architetti napoletani (Naples 1742-1745), F. Sricchia
Santoro, A. Zezza (eds.), Naples, Paparo Edizioni 2008, vol. 1, 726-35.
• “Introduzione e aggiornamento alla Vita di Lorenzo Vaccaro pittore, scultore ed architetto e
di Domenico Antonio Vaccaro pittore, scultore ed architetto, e di Ludovico suo figliolo e
de’ loro discepoli in Bernardo De Dominici, Vite de’ pittori, scultori e architetti napoletani
(Naples 1742-1745), F. Sricchia Santoro, A. Zezza (eds.), Naples, Paparo Edizioni 2008,
vol. 2, 884-933.
• “Per Ercole Ferrata a Napoli: lavori d’intaglio sopra cherubini e putti”, in La scultura
meridionale in età moderna nei suoi rapporti con la circolazione mediterranea. Atti del
convegno internazionale di studi, F. Abbate, L. Gaeta (eds.), Galatina, Congedo, 2007, 17281.
• “Uno scultore barocco autonomo? Cosimo Fanzago tra il 1630 e il 1656”, in Paragone
Arte, 71, 2007, 43-60.
• “Baccio Bandinelli, Busto ritratto di Cosimo I; Giambologna, Busto ritratto di Cosimo I”,
in Tiziano e il ritratto di corte da Raffaello ai Carracci, Napoli, Museo di Capodimonte,
Naples, Electa Napoli, 2006, 184-85; 200-01.
• “Un bronzetto spagnolo di Cosimo Fanzago a New York” in Prospettiva, 109, 2003, 83-88.
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• “Bernini, Pietro” in Encyclopaedia of Sculpture, A. Boström (ed.), New York-London,
Taylor and Francis Group, 2003, vol. 1, 160-62.
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Catalogue entries in Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to
Canova, exh. cat., The Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, New Haven-London, Yale, 2001.
• Review of Algardi: l’altra faccia del Barocco, J. Montagu (ed.), exh. cat., Palazzo delle
Esposizioni Rome, 21 January-30 April 1999, in Object II (1999-2000).
• “Fonti Pittoriche della Scultura di Pietro Bernini” in Dialoghi di Storia dell’Arte VIII/IX
(1999), 120-25.
• “Pietro Bernini tra Manierismo e Barocco: considerazioni su uno scultore di transizione”, in
Rendiconti dell’Accademia di Lettere, Archeologia e Belle Arti, LXVII (1997-1998), 14771.
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“Postilla a Un contributo al catalogo di Pietro Bernini” in Dialoghi di Storia dell’Arte,
III (1996), 172.
• “Un contributo al catalogo di Pietro Bernini”, in Dialoghi di Storia dell’Arte, II (1996), 10811.
Forthcoming:
• “Uno stile nuovo: Some Little known Models by Lorenzo and Domenico Antonio
Vaccaro”, in The Ethernal Baroque. Studies in Honour of Jennifer Montagu, Allemandi,
June 2014.
• “Le ‘Virtù’ di Cosimo Fanzago: tre bronzetti ritrovati”, (article in progress)
• “Seventeenth and eighteenth-century bronze sculpture” in Catalogue of the collection of
Italian bronze sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2015 (ca.45 entries
in progress, provisional title).
• “A ceramics jigsaw: design and manufacture for Palazzo Borghese in Rome” (article in
progress)
• “Two terracotta statuettes by Giuseppe Picano in the Collection of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art” (article in progress).
• “Addenda to the sculptural patronage of Don Manuel Zuñiga, count of Monterrey”
(article in progress)
• Marble trading in the Mediterranean basin (book project).
Conference Papers:
• ‘Uno stile nuovo: Some Little known models by Lorenzo and Domenico Antonio Vaccaro’,
in The Ethernal Baroque. Studies in Honour of Jennifer Montagu, London, The
Wallace Collection, September 6-7, 2013.
• “The Practice of Design in Baroque Naples”
CAA, 101st Annual Conference, New York, February 13-16, 2013. Italian Art Society
Session, Disegno, February 15, 2012.
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“Carmelite altarpieces by Cosimo Fanzago: Spanish patronage and Neapolitan
devotion”
Three International Workshops at the Universities of York and Cambridge, United
Kingdom. Workshop 2, University of York, “Topography and Piety: Naples Afflicted”,
April 3, 2009.
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“Cosimo Fanzago and Neapolitan Baroque Metal sculpture at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art”, 2007
Fellows’ Colloquia series, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 3, 2007.
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“Neapolitan Baroque sculpture”
University of Reading, Department of History of Art and Architecture. Graduate
Research Seminar series, March 14, 2007.
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“The Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowship program”
CAA, 95th Annual Conference, New York, February 14-17, 2007. ARIAH session,
“Celebrating time to think: research dreams realized”, February 15, 2007.
“Uno scultore barocco autonomo? Cosimo Fanzago tra il 1630 e il 1656”
Napoli e Roma nel Seicento: relazioni sociali e artistiche, Seconda Università di
Napoli, Facoltà di Lettere, conference organized by E. Fumagalli, October 6, 2005.
“Per Ercole Ferrata a Napoli: lavori d’intaglio sopra cherubini e putti”
La scultura meridionale in età moderna nei suoi rapporti con la circolazione
mediterranea, Università degli Studi di Lecce, Facoltà di Lettere, International
conference organized by F. Abbate and L. Gaeta, Lecce, June 9-11, 2004.
“Artful Sculpture and Polychrome Marble in Seicento Naples”
UCL, Department of History of Art, Graduate Students seminars, February 11, 2000.
“Pietro Bernini tra Napoli e Roma”
Accademia di Lettere, Archeologia e Belle Arti, Naples, June 11, 1997.
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Select Public Presentations:
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Bernini and Bronze, lecture at the Kimbell Art Museum, March 20, 2013.
Bernini Sculpting in Clay, members only lectures series, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Gracey Rogers Auditorium. December 15-16, 2012.
Meet Bernini’s patrons, Gallery talks, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 10 and
15, 2012.
Fashioning Sculpture, class in conjunction with the course The Sketch, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art. October 25, 2012.
Bernini Sculpting in Clay, exhibition tours, October 10, 20, and November 7, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Languages Skills:
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Italian (mother tongue)
English (Speak and read with fluency)
Spanish (Read with fluency)
German (Read with fluency)
French (Read with fluency)
Latin (Read adequately)
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