Lorenzo Gnocchi

Biography

996 , graduated in Letters, with a thesis in History of Modern Art on Piero di Cosimo de 'Medici's artistic preferences (published in Artibus et historiae 1998). Carlo Del Bravo.   1992 , Doctor of History in Art, with a thesis on Paolo Veronese between artists and writers (published in Florence 1995), tutor prof. Carlo Del Bravo.   From AU 1995-96 , researcher of History of Modern Art, at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Florence.   From AA 2001-2002, associate professor of Modern Art History, at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Florence.                 I did undergraduate and undergraduate studies of Carlo Del Bravo who also followed me in the PhD, and I became a co-worker when I joined the University as a researcher. Among the many other things I have to do with this great innovative master, the research method, particular of this Florentine school, for which the understanding of modern-humanist artists, until the end of the seventeenth century, then supernatants of humanism - it is only possible to reconstruct their thoughts that they could have within the many contemplated   in their times, and that it explains both the themes they interpret (the "general iconology" of the artist), the compositional and the peculiarities of face and body mimicry.             I have devoted all my scholarly energy to the application of this method - in need of extensive and profound figurative and historical-literary-philosophical studies - to most humanistic topics (Gentile da Fabriano, the first Florentine four hundred on which I am going to monograph Bernardo Rossellino and Pius II, the Laurentian era in architecture and Benedetto da Maiano, the Veronese with Tiziano, Tintoretto, Iacopo Sansovino,  Scarsellino, Bonone, Guercino, Caravaggio on which I just wrote an essay, Batoni as epigony of that thought) , and to a lesser extent twentieth century, of the history of criticism (on Berenson and "Comparison"), and of art criticism (on Cemeteries of World War II in Italy). I devoted my teaching energy to both the transmission of advanced research points and to the proposal of "attributions" as an excellent tool for general student culture.

Research Interest

History of Modern Art