FrancescoCuteri
Francesco Cuteri (Catanzaro, 1963) has been Professor of Cultural and Environmental Heritage at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catanzaro since 2022 and previously taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catanzaro.
He is a member of ICOMOS – the International Council on Monuments and Sites – and directs the AM International Museum of Contemporary Art (http://www.aminternational.it/it/62/museo) in Bivongi, Reggio Calabria, Calabria.
He graduated in Medieval Archaeology from the University of Siena, completed a postgraduate course in Archaeology at the University of Florence, and obtained a PhD from the University of Pisa. He taught ‘Medieval Archaeology’ at the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria from 1999 to 2011.
He is a member of the Italian Association for Byzantine Studies; the Society of Italian Medieval Archaeologists; the Ligurian Centre for the History of Ceramics; and AISCOM – the Italian Association for the Study and Conservation of Mosaics.
He is the author of over 200 essays on topics relating to culture, archaeology, mining, architecture and ceramics, as well as several guidebooks on ancient and mediaeval Calabria.
He has carried out extensive research in Tuscany, Calabria and Greece, where he has taught introductory courses on Byzantine architecture based in Megara, Attica. He also studies rock-dwelling settlements, mediaeval architecture (especially Byzantine and Norman), and abandoned villages. He has led excavation campaigns in Tuscany and Calabria, and in 2012, in Monasterace (Reggio Calabria), he was responsible for the discovery of a Hellenistic mosaic currently considered the largest and most complex in Magna Graecia.
He has contributed to the development of the following museums: the Diocesan Museum of Tropea (2013); the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Kaulonia (Monasterace, Reggio Calabria) (2015); and the Provincial Museum of Catanzaro (2016).
In 2005, he received the ‘Custodi della Memoria’ Award in Mileto (Vibo Valentia); in 2017, the ‘Cassiodoro’ Award in Camigliatello Silano (Vibo Valentia); in 2018, the ‘Galarte’ Award in Rende (Cosenza); and in 2019, the Commendation for Merit for the ‘Umberto Zanotti Bianco’ National Award from Italia Nostra; he is an honorary citizen of Monasterace (Reggio Calabria).
He has collaborated with RAI 1 and RAI 3, as well as with RAI Storia, on two episodes of ‘Italia. Viaggio nella bellezza’, one episode focusing on Scolacium/Squillace and the other on Byzantine Calabria. He has contributed to the production of the documentaries ‘God Blessed Calabria’ by Erminio Perocco and ‘Segreti Passaggi’ by Giuseppe Rachetta.
Bibliography:
F.A. Cuteri (ed.), I Normanni in finibus Calabriae, Soveria Mannelli 2003.
F.A. Cuteri (ed.), Con Emilia Zinzi. Sentieri di cultura e d’amore, Vibo Valentia, 2004.
F.A. Cuteri, Guida alla Calabria greca. Un itinerario fra miti e sacralità (Guide to Greek Calabria. Un itinerario fra miti e sacralità, Soveria Mannelli 2011, pp. 305–311.
F. A. Cuteri, Tra le residenze di Efesto. Note sulla metallurgia di età greca in Calabria, in M.T. Iannelli, C. Sabbione, Le spose e gli eroi. Offerte in bronzo e in ferro dai santuari e dalle necropoli della Calabria greca), Vibo Valentia 2014, pp. 13–22.
F. Cuteri, L’altra Calabria. Nuovi insediamenti e popolamento nel lungo Medioevo, in G. De Sensi Sestito, T. Ceravolo (eds.), La montagna calabrese, Soveria Mannelli 2020, pp. 116–140.
THREE-YEAR COURSE
Foundation module. Cultural heritage: definition, purpose, categories. The history of cultural heritage: from the earliest provisions in the pre-unification states to Article 9 of the Constitution. The Cultural Heritage Code.
In-depth studies. Sites of cultural heritage: Libraries and Museums.
History of the book and libraries. The museum through history: from collection to narrative. The structure, evolution and function of museums. Museums, libraries and digital culture.
Bibliography
C. Tosco, I beni culturali. Storia, tutela e valorizzazione, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014;
Selected readings:
F. Barbier, Storia del libro in Occidente, Edizioni Dedalo, Bari 2018;
M. Cursi, Le forme del libro. Dalla tavoletta cerata all’e-book, Dalla tavoletta cerata all’e-book, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016;
F. Barbier, Storia delle biblioteche. Dall’antichità a oggi, Dall’antichità a oggi, Editrice Bibliografica, Milan 2016;
M.V. Marini Clarelli, Che cos’è un museo, Carocci Editore, Rome 2019;
M. T. Fiorio, Il museo nella storia. Dallo studiolo alla raccolta pubblica, Pearson, Turin 2018;
N. Mandarano, Musei e media digitali, Carocci Editore, Rome 2022.
Lecturer’s handouts and PowerPoint presentations.
TWO-YEAR COURSE
Introductory module. Considerations on the concept of cultural property and heritage. The history of cultural heritage: from the earliest forms of protection to the unification of Italy. Article 9 of the Constitution and the Cultural Heritage Code. Categories of cultural heritage. The utility of cultural heritage.
In-depth study. The landscape: the history of cities and their relationship with the surrounding area.
Acquisition of the methodological tools needed to understand and analyse the development of Italian cities, including in relation to the surrounding area, highlighting how transformations always create new landscapes, often through a destructive or otherwise highly impactful process. Analysis of illustrative urban contexts, covering both the ancient period and the modern and contemporary eras. Commentary on the European Landscape Convention to address the complex issue of protection in greater depth.
Reading list
C. Tosco, I beni culturali. Storia, tutela e valorizzazione, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014.
Carlo Tosco, Il paesaggio storico. Le fonti e i metodi di ricerca, Le fonti e i metodi di ricerca, Laterza, Bari, 2009.
Further reading:
Lecturer’s handouts and PowerPoint presentations;
European Landscape Convention, Florence 2000.
THREE-YEAR COURSE
Introductory module. Cultural heritage: definition, purpose, categories. The history of cultural heritage. Legislation and protection. Categories of cultural heritage. Cultural heritage across space and time. In-depth study. Demo-ethno-anthropological cultural heritage and its relationship with the intangible dimension. Understanding and analysis of the value and dissemination, primarily within the Italian cultural context, of the aforementioned heritage, including through the study of how the Italian museum system has developed in this direction.
Links to portals/websites related to Italy’s demo-ethno-anthropological heritage. Critical analysis and initial mapping.
The cataloguing of demo-ethno-anthropological heritage.
Bibliography
C. Tosco, I beni culturali. Storia, tutela e valorizzazione, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014.
V. Lattanzi, Musei e antropologia. Storia, esperienze, prospettive, Storia, esperienze, prospettive, Carocci Editore, Rome 2021;
G.L. Bravo, R. Tucci, I beni culturali demoetno-antropologici, Carocci Editore, Rome 2006;
M. Salvo, A. Lo Monaco, M. Mirabelli, I beni demoetnoantropologici. Problemi di conservazione, Edifir, Florence 2005; Problemi di conservazione, Edifir, Florence 2005;
http://www.iccd.beniculturali.it/getFile.php?id=4036;
http://www.simbdea.it/;
Lecturer’s handouts and PowerPoint presentations.
TWO-YEAR COURSE
Introductory course. Reflections on the concept of cultural heritage. Categories of cultural heritage.
In-depth studies. The landscape of the Ruins. The allure of ruins in the 18th and 19th centuries and the image of Rome: conservation, the picturesque and the sublime. The allure and power of ruins and their perception in the modern era. Ruins and Rubble. Ruins between the West and the East. Ruins in modern and contemporary art. Abandoned villages and ghost towns: analysis of representative contexts and definition of a lexicon of ruins. Use and recycling of the past in ruins.
Bibliography
C. Tosco, I beni culturali. Storia, tutela e valorizzazione, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014.
Selected readings: M. Augé, Rovine e macerie. Il senso del tempo, Bollati Boringhieri, Turin 2004;
A.M. Oteri, Rovine. Visioni, teorie, restauri del rudere in architettura; Dat Donat Dicat, Rome 2009;
M. Barbanera & A. Capodiferro (eds.), La forza delle rovine, Electa, Milan 2015;
L. Altarelli, L’immaginario delle rovine, Da Piranesi al moderno, Lettera Ventidue, Syracuse 2022;
A. Tesei, D. Calloni, Paesi fantasma. Viaggio tra i più bei borghi abbandonati d’Italia, Magenes, Milan 2018;
A. Tarpino, V. Teti (eds.), Il paese che non c’è. Viaggio nell’Italia dei villaggi abbandonati, ‘Communitas’, December 2011.
M. Ferragutti, La voce delle case abbandonate. Piccolo alfabeto del silenzio, EdiCicloEditore, Portogruaro 2018.
https://www.artesvelata.it/rovine-friedrich-arte-contemporanea/;
E. Calbi, Il fascino delle rovine (link);
Lecturer’s handouts and PowerPoint presentations.
THREE-YEAR COURSE
Introductory module. Cultural heritage: definition, purpose, categories. The history of cultural heritage. Legislation and protection. Categories of cultural heritage. Cultural heritage across space and time. In-depth study. Demo-ethno-anthropological cultural heritage and its relationship with the intangible dimension. Understanding and analysis of the value and dissemination, primarily within the Italian cultural context, of the aforementioned heritage, including through the study of how the Italian museum system has developed in this direction.
Links to portals/websites related to Italy’s demo-ethno-anthropological heritage. Critical analysis and initial mapping.
The cataloguing of demo-ethno-anthropological heritage.
Bibliography
C. Tosco, I beni culturali. Storia, tutela e valorizzazione, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014.
V. Lattanzi, Musei e antropologia. Storia, esperienze, prospettive, Storia, esperienze, prospettive, Carocci Editore, Rome 2021;
G.L. Bravo, R. Tucci, I beni culturali demoetno-antropologici, Carocci Editore, Rome 2006;
M. Salvo, A. Lo Monaco, M. Mirabelli, I beni demoetnoantropologici. Problemi di conservazione, Edifir, Florence 2005; Problemi di conservazione, Edifir, Florence 2005;
http://www.iccd.beniculturali.it/getFile.php?id=4036;
http://www.simbdea.it/;
Lecturer’s handouts and PowerPoint presentations.