Prof. Francesco Grisolia L-ART 02 - Old Master Drawings and Prints

Francesco Grisolia is Associate Professor at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, where he teaches "Early Modern Art" and "Old Master Drawings and Prints" from 2015. He was granted fellowships by the Fondazione Roberto Longhi, Florence, and collaborated with museums such as the Uffizi's Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome, the Galleria Sabauda in Turin and the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. His research interests focus on themes and problems in the History of Drawing and the History of Prints and Drawing collecting, ranging from the late Roman Mannerism to the Neapolitan and Central Italian schools between the 16th and the 18th centuries. He studied artists like Maso Finiguerra, Taddeo Zuccari, Giovan Battista Lombardelli, Giovan Battista Beinaschi, Luigi Garzi and Carlo Maratti; art collectors and writers including Sebastiano Resta, Ignazio E. Hugford, Domenico Maria Manni, Giovanni Gaetano Bottari and the archaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani. Principal Investigator of the Padre Resta Project, his current projects include the full investigation of the Resta-Marchetti-Somers albums of drawings. He is the Programme Coordinator of the Master of Arts in Art History in Rome from Late Antiquity to the Present.