Francesco Freddolini

Biography

Francesco Freddolini teaches courses in Renaissance and Baroque art, as well as in the history of collecting and display. His fields of specialty are the history of sculpture, the history of collecting and displaying art, and the relations between art, rituals and identity in court societies. His first book, exploring the material and economic history of the early eighteenth-century sculptor Giovanni, was published in 2010. His second book, investigating the entire career of Giovanni Baratta and including a catalog of his works, was published in 2013. Freddolini has received fellowships from various international institutions, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, and the University of Florence, Italy. In 2007, He was awarded the Francis Haskell Memorial Grant and from 2010 to 2012 he was Roman Palaces Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California, where he collaborated on a research project entitled "Display of Art in Roman Palaces, c. 1550-1750, "involving scholars from North America and Europe. The bookDisplay of Art in the Roman Palace, 1550-1750 , edited by Gail Feigenbaum with Francesco Freddolini and published by the Getty Research Institute in 2014, is the result of that project. Dr. Freddolini is currently pursuing a project on patronage, images and identity at the Medici Court, supported by a 2013 Luther College President Research Fund and by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2013-2015). Francesco is currently co-editing two volumes. The first (with Cinzia M. Sicca, University of Pisa) is a book titled Narratives of the Florentine Interior. Courtly Environments in Early Modern Tuscany , and the second one (with Marco Musillo, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz) is entitled The Medici and the Global World .Art, Mobility, and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany .

Research Interest

history of sculpture, the history of collecting and displaying art, the relations between art, rituals and identity in court societies.