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Prof.ssa Tania De Nile |
Tania De Nile teaches at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" since 2022. She works as Head Curator of Pietro Canonica Museum in Villa Borghese (Rome), and she previously worked in the Ministry of Culture (Milan). She was Adjunct Professor at the Roma Tre University (2021) and the University of Calabria (2014-2017), where she carried out research on Flemish and Dutch painters in South Italy, a project funded by the EU in collaboration with the RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History) in The Hague. At the University of Leiden, she defended her PhD thesis which traces the development and characteristics of the subject category of spoockerijen (phantasmagoria) in 17th century art and market. Her research has been supported by grants from the GWO (The Netherlands), the Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation (Tokyo) and the NIKI (Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut in Florence). She also carried out research activities at the EPHE in Paris, at the NIKI in Florence, at the RKD in The Hague and at the Prentenkabinet of the Universiteit Leiden. She took part in several international symposia and exhibitions held in Naples, Rome, Madrid, Paris, Fontainebleau, Leiden, Utrecht, 's-Hertogenbosch, Berlin, Dublin, and Cambridge. Her main contributions focus on the painters of witchcraft and hell representations in Italy and The Netherlands, on the group of Bentvueghels in Rome, and on Flemish artists in South Italy.
Among her recent publications: "Fantasmagorie. Streghe, demoni e tentazioni nell'arte fiamminga e olandese del Seicento" (Officina Libraria 2023, fundend by the Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp), and "Fiamminghi al Sud. Oltre Napoli" (Edizioni Quasar 2023).