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.
\nHe is a member of ICOMOS \u2013 the International Council on Monuments and Sites \u2013 and directs the AM International Museum of Contemporary Art (http:\/\/www.aminternational.it\/it\/62\/museo) in Bivongi, Reggio Calabria, Calabria.
\nHe 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 \u2018Medieval Archaeology\u2019 at the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria from 1999 to 2011.
\nHe 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 \u2013 the Italian Association for the Study and Conservation of Mosaics.
\nHe 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.
\nHe 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.
\nHe 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).
\nIn 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).
\nHe has collaborated with RAI 1 and RAI 3, as well as with RAI Storia, on two episodes of ‘Italia. Viaggio nella bellezza\u2019, 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.<\/p>\n
Bibliography:
\nF.A. Cuteri (ed.), I Normanni in finibus Calabriae, Soveria Mannelli 2003.
\nF.A. Cuteri (ed.), Con Emilia Zinzi. Sentieri di cultura e d\u2019amore, Vibo Valentia, 2004.
\nF.A. Cuteri, Guida alla Calabria greca. Un itinerario fra miti e sacralit\u00e0 (Guide to Greek Calabria. Un itinerario fra miti e sacralit\u00e0, Soveria Mannelli 2011, pp. 305\u2013311.
\nF. A. Cuteri, Tra le residenze di Efesto. Note sulla metallurgia di et\u00e0 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\u201322.
\nF. Cuteri, L\u2019altra Calabria. Nuovi insediamenti e popolamento nel lungo Medioevo, in G. De Sensi Sestito, T. Ceravolo (eds.), La montagna calabrese, Soveria Mannelli 2020, pp. 116\u2013140.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":118590,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-131522","docenti","type-docenti","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docenti\/131522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docenti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docenti"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}