Rome as a Living Museum

Proff. Irene Baldriga and Pier Paolo Racioppi

IES SPRING SEMESTER 2008

Instructors' Profiles

(IES Field Trip to Siena)

Irene Baldriga is art history Ph.D.; she graduated from Rome’s University “La Sapienza” and was awarded with several fellowships from Italian and foreign cultural institutions. She has a wide experience in teaching art history and regularly participates to international academic projects. She has published extensively in Italian and English on art history topics from medieval to contemporary times and participated to the organization of several exhibitions. She recently published a book for the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Her favourite field of research is Renaissance and Baroque art, the history of collecting and patronage and the relation art-science in early modern Europe. Her other courses at IES: Late Antique and Early Christian Art in the Mediterranean World (Fall); 16th and 17th century Art and Papal Patronage (Spring) and (forthcoming) 20th century Italian Art and Architecture (Spring).

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Pier Paolo Racioppi is art history Ph.D; he holds a degree in the History of Art from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.  Winner of the San Luca scholarship in 1997, he conducted research in the United States on Academies and Collectionism in early Twentieth Century America.   Since 1996 he has collaborated with Professor Rossi Pinelli in teaching seminars and colloquia on 18^th and 19^th century art.  Since 1998, he is the editor of the Italian edition of  the catalogues of Museum With No Frontiers (Islamic Art in the Mediterranean).  He has published several articles in specialized art history journals on Academies in the 19^th century and legislation for the preservation of the arts. His other courses at IES: "Renaissance and the Classical Tradition".

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