Valter Curzi

Valter Curzi graduated at the University of Urbino in 1986. He earned his Master Degree in Modern and Medieval Art at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1996 and the PhD in Modern Art at the University of Perugia in 2003. From 2005 to 2017 he was Associated Professor of Modern Art at the Faculty of Liberal Studies of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, where he was formerly Lecturer in Catalogazione informatica dei beni storico-artistici and Legislazione artistica, both for undergraduate and graduate classes of Modern and Medieval Art Courses. Since 2017 he is Director of the Scuola di Specializzazione (M.A. degree) in Historic Artistic Heritage of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (dassspecializzazione.uniroma1.it/) and since January 2018 he is Full Professor at the same University. He is an ordinary member of the Accademia Raffaello and from 2017 he is the curator of the scientific project for the re-establishment of the Casa Natale di Raffaello Museum in Urbino. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica in Rome Palazzo Barberini-Galleria Corsini. He devoted his studies in particular to the dynamics centre/periphery in the artistic production as well as in the protection and conservation of cultural heritage. According to the direction of his research he has contributed to renovate the art history studies on the eighteenth century roman art by analyzing the role played by patrons in the provinces of the Papal State. With regard to the scope of his research he edited the exhibition Domenico Corvi (1998), one of the most important protagonists of the roman artistic world of the second half of the eighteenth century. He has also studied the issues in the conservation of cultural heritage in the Papal State between the nineteenth and the twentieth century, focusing on legislation, interventions and the contemporary cultural debate, stressing the contribution of important institutional figures such as Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Adolfo Venturi and Corrado Ricci (see in particular Bene culturale e pubblica utilità. Politiche di tutela a Roma tra Ancien Régime e Restaurazione, Minerva Edizioni 2004, II ed. 2017);. The exhibition Venezia: la tutela per immagini. Un caso esemplare dagli archivi della Fototeca Nazionale edited by Curzi in 2005 has offered a new methodological approach in the studies on the conservation of national cultural heritage. With his most recent studies he has contributed to broaden the research on the Roman artistic culture of the eighteenth century, analyzed in its interdisciplinary aspects and in its cosmopolitan character, as documented by his direction of the exhibitions Roma e l’Antico. Realtà e visione nel ‘700 (Fondazione Roma Museo, 2010, catalog edited by Skira); Hogarth, Reynolds, Turner. Pittura inglese verso la modernità (Fondazione Roma Museo 2014, catalog edited by Skira). Among the most recent interests is that of communication and dissemination of knowledge of the discipline, as documented by the volume Comunicare il museo oggi. Dalle scelte museologiche al digitale (Skira, 2016) and by the exhibition Il Museo Universale. Dal sogno di Napoleone a Canova (Scuderie del Quirinale, 2016-2017, catalog edited by Skira).