GIOVAN BATTISTA FIDANZA

Born in Perugia (Italy) in 1967

Department of Storia, Patrimonio Culturale, Formazione e Società (History, Cultural Heritage, Education and Society). 

University of Rome, Tor Vergata

Via Columbia, 1 - 00133 Rome, Italy 

Phone: 0039 06 72595053 

E-mail: fidanza@lettere.uniroma2.it

EMPLOYMENT

2018-present: Full Professor of History of Early Modern Art; University of Rome, Tor Vergata (Qualified as Full Professor of History of Art through national competitive examination: Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale, 2012 Announcement, first round).

2006-2018: Associate Professor of History of Early Modern Art; University of Rome, Tor Vergata. 

2004-2006: Adjunct Professor of Technical Art History; University of Rome, Tor Vergata.

2003-2004: Adjunct Professor of Technical Art History; University of Perugia.

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

2013: Visiting Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Erie, The Behrend College within the course: Italian Renaissance Art of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (at the invitation of Sharon Dale, Professor of History of Art)

2011: Visiting Lecturer, Loughborough University (UK), School of the Arts, within the MA Art and Design Studio Practice course (at the invitation of Roberta Bernabei, Lecturer).

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

2019-2021: Co-editor of Rivista d’Arte (first published 1903), Leo S. Olschki Publisher, Florence.

2011-2019: Member of the editorial board of Rivista d’Arte (first published 1903), Leo S. Olschki Publisher, Florence.

Ph.D PROGRAMME

2018-2021: Director of the Ph.D Programme in Cultural Heritage, Education, and Geography (Beni Culturali, Formazione e Territorio), University of Rome, Tor Vergata.

2011-present: committee member of the Ph.D Programme in Cultural Heritage, Education, and Geography (Beni Culturali, Formazione e Territorio), University of Rome, Tor Vergata.

MAIN FIELDS OF RESEARCH

History of painting from the 17th century to the early 19th century, with particular reference to the Papal States. 

History of wooden sculpture and furnishings in the Early modern period in Central Italy, in particular in the Papal State and Florence, with emphasis on stylistic and historical aspects of materials and techniques.

Diagnostics applied to the study of wooden sculpture and painting in the Early modern period.

History of engraving from the 18th century to the early 19th century, with particular reference to Northern Italy: Milan and Parma (two articles).

MAIN RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books

- Andrea Sacchi and Cardinal del Monte: the rediscovered frescoes in the Palazzo di Ripetta in Rome, London, Ad Ilissum, 2022, pages xii + 132.

- G.B. Fidanza, G. Serafinelli, Patronage and devotion: a focus on six Roman Baroque paintings, London, Paul Holberton Publishing, pages 128.

- Luke Wadding's art: Irish Franciscan patronage in seventeenth-century Rome, St. Bonaventure, NY, Franciscan Institute Publications, 2016, pages viii + 248. 

Good reviews: 

-       D.L. Sparti, in «The Burlington Magazine», no. 1378, vol. CLX, 2018, pp. 66-67; 

-       M. Binasco, in «Studi Irlandesi», no. 8, 2018, pp. 498-499.

-       M. Mac Craith, in «Archivum Franciscanum Historicum», no. 3-4, vol. 110, 2017, pp. 681-686; 

-       L. Gaeta, in «Frate Francesco», no. 2, vol. 83, 2017, pp. 566-570; 

-       M.C. Cola, in «Bollettino d’Arte», no. 30, 2016, pp. 135-138.

Journal articles

- Carlo Maratti’s additions to the ‘Barberini Venus’, «The Burlington Magazine», no. 1426, vol. 164, 2022, pp. 260-265.

- Prints as communication of power: Cardinal Carlo Barberini and the synods of his abbeys, «Renaissance Studies», vol. 35, issue 2, 2021, pp. 255-286.

- New evidence for the ‘Barberini Apostles’ by Andrea Sacchi and  Carlo Maratti, «The Burlington Magazine», no. 1397, vol. CLXI, 2019, pp. 653-659.

- The ephemeral apparatus for the funeral of Jan III Sobieski in Rome: Cardinal Carlo Barberini’s art and politics, «Artibus et Historiae», no. 77, 2018, pp. 319-333.

- Carlo Maratti and the Barberini family: two paintings for churches in Palestrina, «The Burlington Magazine», no. 1373, vol. CLIX, 2017, pp. 610-616.

- Donatellos Maria Magdalena. Technik und Theologie einer Holzfigur, «Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte», 62, 2014, pp. 127-144.

- A rediscovered altarpiece by Pietro da Cortona and insights into the collaboration between the master and his pupils, «The Burlington Magazine», no. 1325, vol. CLV, 2013, pp. 541-545.

- Due inedite biografie di Francesco Londonio, «Rivista d’Arte», 2, 2012, pp. 419-438.

- Überlegungen zu Michelangelo als Holzbildhauer, «Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte», 59, 2010, pp. 49-64.

Book chapters

- Wood and Architecture. Pliny’s Legacy in the Treatises of Alberti and Cataneo, in The Nature of Art. Pliny the Elder on materials, edited by A. Anguissola and A. Grüner, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020, pp. 91-99.

- Gli inventari delle chiese prescritti dal Concilio Romano del 1725: una fonte per la storia dell’arte, in Incorrupta monumenta Ecclesiam defendunt. Studi offerti a mons. Sergio Pagano, prefetto dell’Archivio Segreto Vaticano. II Archivi, Archivistica, Diplomatica, Paleografia, edited by A. Gottsmann, P. Piatti and A.E. Rehberg, Vatican City, Archivio Segreto Vaticano, 2018, pp. 401-416 (Series Collectanea Archivi Vaticani).