Ricerc@Sapienza

Francesco Freddolini is associate professor of Early Modern Art History at Sapienza University of Rome since 2020. Trained at the University of Pisa, where he gained his Phd in 2008, Francesco Freddolini has taught Art History at Luther College, University of Regina, Canada, from 2012 to 2020, and from 2019 to 2020 he was Director of the Humanities Research Institute, University of Regina. His research has been supported by international grants and fellowships. Some of the institutions and grants that have supported his research include the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC), The Huntington Library (San Marino, CA, USA), the Francis Haskell Memorial Grant, and the Getty Resarch Institute, where as postdoctoral fellow between 2010 and 2012 he collaborated on the research project Display of Art in the Roman Palaces, 1550-1750. More recently, he has been principal investigator for an Insight Development Grant awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2013-2106), entitled Patronage, Images, and Courtiers’ Identity in Florence, c. 1587-1609, and principal investivator for a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant (2018-2020) entitled Regal Alterities: Imagining Exotic Rulers and Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe.
His research focuses on the history of sculpture during the long seventeenth century, the history of collecting and displaying art, and transcultural artistic exchanges in the early modern global world.
In addition to two volumes devoted respectively to the Baratta family Giovanni Baratta e lo Studio del Baluardo. Scultura, Mercato del Marmo e Ascesa Sociale tra Sei e Settecento, Pisa 2010) and to Giovanni Baratta (Giovanni Baratta, 1670-1747. Scultura e Industria del Marmo tra la Toscana e le Corti d’Europa, Roma 2013), Freddolini has published on Roman palaces Display of Art in the Roman Palace, edited by Gail Feigenbaum with Francesco Freddolini, Los Angeles 2014), on the history of collecting and display in early modern Rome and Florence, and on the textuality of inventories and catalogues Inventories and Catalogues: Material and Narrative Histories, special section of the Journal of Art Historiography 11 (December 2014), edited by Francesco Freddolini and Anne Helmreich). More recently, in addition to further pursuing these lines of research and publication Freddolini has devoted his work to the artistic and material relations between Grand-Ducal Tuscany and the Eurasian context (Art, Mobility, and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia, edited by Francesco Freddolini and Marco Musillo, New York 2020), and to the concept of alterity within the relation between early modern Europe and the global world (“(Re)Imagining Asian Rulers in Athanasius Kircher’s China Illustrata. The Agency of Interiors,” RACAR-Journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada 45, no. 2 (2020): 64-80).