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Prof.ssa Tania De Nile |
Tania De Nile works as art historian in the Capitoline Superintendency for Cultural Heritage (Rome), and previously in the Ministry of Culture (Milan). She was Adjunct Professor at the Roma Tre University and the University of Calabria, 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. In 2013 she defended her PhD thesis in Leiden (The Netherlands), 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 painters of witchcraft and hell representations, the group of Bentvueghels in Rome and Flemish artists in South Italy.
Among her recent publications: "Fantasmagorie. Streghe, demoni e tentazioni nell'arte fiamminga e olandese del Seicento" (Officina Libraria 2023) and "Fiamminghi al Sud. Oltre Napoli" (Edizioni Quasar 2023).