Lecturers

 

Prof. dr. P.G. Bossier  is professor Romance Culture and Literature at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and graduated in Romance filology at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and subsequently did his PhD. Programme culminating in his thesis Ambasciatore della risa, La commedia dell’arte nel second cinquecento (1545-1590), finished cum laude in 1995. This research focused on the origins of professional companies of actors in the 16^th century in Italy. He worked at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the University of Witwatersand (South-Africa), the Rijkshogeschool Maastricht and the Hoger Instituut voor Vertalers en Tolken in Antwerp. His specialism is Il Cinquecento in Italy and France and focuses on cultural models, the problem of genre and the professionalism of the arts, especially the theater. Furthermore, he researches twentieth century Italian Literature.

 

Dr. M. Forcellino is a teacher and researcher at the Università degli Studi di Salerno. In 2007 she earned her Ph.D. on Michelangelo, titled: La corrente “spirituale” nei disegni, dipinti e sculture di Michelangelo negli anni Quaranta . Maria Forcellino has done extensive research on the artistic production in the 18^th century in relation to archeological sites. In this research the persona of the antiquarian Camillo Pademi (1700 – 1781) played a significant role. Since 1999 Michelangelo was the central figure of her research, concentrating on the tomb of Julius II (1505-1545). This research culminated in her Ph.D.-thesis and subsequently in a recently published book Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna e gli ‘spirituali’; Religiosità e vita artistica a Roma negli anni Quaranta (Viella, Perugia 2009).

 

Prof dr. A. Nagel is professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He earned his B.A. in History from the University of California at Berkeley (1987) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Harvard University (1990, 1993). Previously, he served as Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) in Washington, D.C. and as Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto. In 2000 he published his award-winning book Michelangelo and the Reform of Art (Cambridge University Press, 2000). His current research investigates the impact of the Reformation on art-making in Italy and the modes of anachronism at work in the making and reception of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance art. Nagel has special interest in the way artworks are perceived in their temporal life, on which he wrote the book Anachronic Renaissance (co-author: Chistopher Wood) (Zone Books, 2010). Currently, he’s finishing his book The Controversy of Renaissance Art , which is of special interest to this Summer School in Rome.

 

Prof. dr. B.H. Stolte  is professor of Byzantine law at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and since august 2007 director of the Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut in Rome (KNIR). He graduated in Law and Classical Languages at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen. He finished his Ph.D. Programme in 1981 at the Universiteit Utrecht with a thesis about the lawyer and classicist Henrik Brenkman (1681-1736). As a classicist and juridical historian Stolte is particularly interested in the history of juridical texts, their tradition as well as their operation and cultural influence. As of 2001 he is active in a European network that has as their projective to make an inventory of Greek palimpsests – many of which can be found at the Vatican Library - with the help of advanced digital fotographic technics. On 22 november 2007 he received the royal recommendation Officier in de Orde van Oranje Nassau.

 

Dr. B. Treffers is head of the Department of Arthistory at the Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut in Rome (KNIR) and has been involved in numerous projects organized in or by the Institute. For instance, he organized a congress in march 2008 about the exhibition Pier Pander, titled “Il corpo e l’anima nell’arte del tardo Ottocento”.

 

Prof. dr. H. Th. van Veen is Professor in the History of Art at Groningen University since 1994. He studied History and Art History at Groningen University and passed his Masters in History there in 1977. Awarded with several scholarships, he went to Tuscany and in 1979 he was appointed lecturer and librarian at the Dutch Institute of Art History at Florence. There he began studying the topic the sixteenth-century Medici court and its artistic and artistic policies, a subject that held his attention for many years. He made a great contribution to the knowledge of this subject with his publication Cosimo I De’ Medici and His Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture , Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press 2006. While in Florence, he also did extensive archival research on the cultural relations between Tuscany and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In 1985 he was appointed Assistent Professor at the Open University of the Netherlands. In 1986 he passed his Ph. D at Groningen University with Prof. Henk van Os, and in 1990 he became Associate Professor at the Open University. In this positon he set up and supervised the production of a series of advanced academic courses in art history and cultural history and he contributed to these. Meanwhile, amongst other activities, he edited the first translation into Dutch of (a selection from) Vasari's Lives .