Alessandra BUCCHERI
Professor of History of Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo
Alessandra Buccheri is professor of History of Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo and, for the Fall 2021, she is a fellow of the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies in America (Columbia University).
In 2009 she completed her PhD at the University of Oxford, where she received various awards (Arts & Humanities Research Council Postgraduate Award, Scatcherd European Scholarship, Isaiah Berlin Fund). In 2000, she received her Master’s Degree in Multimedia Editing and Digital Communication at Polytechnic University of Milan.
She has been a fellow at the Fondazione Roberto Longhi in Florence (2002-3), has worked as scientific collaborator at the Museo Galileo in Florence (2004) and at the CRIBECU (ScuolaNormaleSuperiore di Pisa, 2003-4). She was a partner in the research project “Apropiaciones e Hibridaciones entre las Artes Plásticas y las Artes Escénicasen la Edad Moderna” (2016-2020),Universidad de Málaga, founded by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain).
Her main area of research is visual culture in early modern Italy, with a special focus on theatre, architecture and decoration (including sculptures and paintings in their original architectural context). She is also interested in gender studies and women in the visual arts. Her published volumes include “Quandol’ornamento non è delitto. Un percorsoattraverso la culturavisivasiciliana dal tardo-gotico al Novecento” (2020), co-edited with Giulia Ingarao, and “Archetipi del femminile. Rappresentazioni di genere, identità e ruolisocialinell’artedalleoriginiaoggi” (2017), co-edited with Giulia Ingarao and Emilia Valenza. Her most recent monograph, “The Spectacle of Clouds, 1439-1650. Italian Art and Theatre” (2014), explores the origin and meaning of cloud compositions by looking at the complex relationship between their three-dimensional construction and display in religious and court theatre, and their pictorial representations both in churches and secular buildings.