Flavia Matitti (Amsterdam, 1964) is an art historian and freelance journalist, registered with the Professional Register of Journalists since 2003. She lives and works in Rome, where she teaches History of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts. She is the author of around one hundred publications, including entries, fact sheets and essays in exhibition catalogues, conference proceedings, academic journals, encyclopaedias and monographs. Her main research interests focus on 20th-century Italian art, iconography, and Roman patronage in the 17th and 18th centuries.
\nShe has been a member of the scientific committee of the Associazione Fausto Pirandello (AFP) since its establishment (2012) and has dedicated numerous studies to the painter, including the collection of essays \u2018Riflessioni sull\u2019arte\u2019, co-edited with Claudia Gian Ferrari (Abscondita, Milan, 2008), and the book \u2018Fausto Pirandello. Gli anni di Parigi 1928\u20131930′ (Artemide, Rome 2009). As a curator, she has overseen several exhibitions, including most recently the exhibition \u2018Una storia nell\u2019arte. I Marchini tra impegno e passione\u201d (2022), curated together with Fabio Benzi, Arnaldo Colasanti, Gianni Dess\u00ec and Italo Tomassoni for the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (later held at the CIAC in Foligno).<\/p>\n
Academic qualifications, training and teaching experience:
\nIn 1988, she obtained a (four-year) degree in Literature from La Sapienza University of Rome with a final mark of 110 cum laude, submitting a thesis in Iconography and Iconology entitled \u2018The Temptations of Saint Anthony the Abbot: Developments and Issues in an Iconographic Theme\u2019 (supervisor: Prof. Claudia Cieri Via). In 1993, she completed a postgraduate specialisation course in Archaeology and Art History at the University of Siena, achieving a mark of 70\/100 with honours, with a thesis on \u2018Exhibitions at the Circus Maximus (1937\u201338). Arte e propaganda a Roma sotto il fascismo\u201d (supervisor: Prof. Enrico Crispolti). For the entire duration of the (three-year) specialist course, she was awarded a scholarship from the Ministry of Scientific and Technological Research. Between 1989 and 1995, on behalf of the Superintendence for Artistic and Historical Heritage of Rome (under the direction of Dr Rosanna Barbiellini Amidei) and the Special Superintendence of the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, he carried out teaching and cataloguing activities. From 1992 to 2002, she collaborated with Prof. Maurizio Fagiolo dell\u2019Arco, conducting research on 20th-century art and the Roman Baroque, with a particular focus on the patronage of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667\u20131740).
\nA tenured lecturer since 1995, she has taught at the Academies of Fine Arts in Milan (Brera), Palermo, Naples, Bologna, Florence and, since 2015, Rome.
\nIn 2018, she obtained the National Scientific Qualification for Art History (competition sector 10\/B1, tier 2; valid from 2018 to 2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":118343,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-131546","docenti","type-docenti","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docenti\/131546","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\/118343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}