Fabrizio Federici ha compiuto studi di storia dell’arte all’Università di Pisa e alla Scuola Normale Superiore. I suoi interessi comprendono temi di storia sociale dell’arte (mecenatismo, collezionismo), l’arte a Roma e in Toscana nel XVII secolo, la storia dell’erudizione e dell’antiquaria, la fortuna del Medioevo, l’antico e i luoghi dell’archeologia nella società contemporanea. È autore, con J. Garms, del volume "Tombs of illustrious italians at Rome". L’album di disegni RCIN 970334 della Royal Library di Windsor (“Bollettino d’Arte”, volume speciale), Firenze, Olschki 2010. Dal 2008 al 2012 è stato coordinatore del progetto “Osservatorio Mostre e Musei” della Scuola Normale e dal 2016 al 2018 borsista post-doc presso la Bibliotheca Hertziana, Roma. È inoltre amministratore della pagina
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The city of Cremona is characterized, as is well known, by an outstanding musical tradition, which has its highest moments, on the one hand, in violin making and the figure of Antonio Stradivari and, on the other, in Claudio Monteverdi, who saw the l...
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Over the course of a long life (he died at age 87) and a very long cardinalate (he wore the purple for 55 years, beginning in 1645), Cardinal Alderano Cybo (Genoa, 1613 - Rome, 1700) translated a great interest in the arts - from music to literature,...
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The debut of the current exhibition on Pope Urban VIII at Palazzo Barberini is in the sign of St. Sebastian, a figure who had a particular relevance for the Barberini family and Maffeo in particular. In a close dialogue we find juxtaposed Ludovico Ca...
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For about three years now, the Uffizi Galleries has been promoting the Uffizi Diffusi initiative, whose primary objective is to bring works of the museum to the territory (Tuscan, but not only) mainly through a series of temporary exhibitions in whic...
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Known to most as a seaside resort and a mythical center of nightlife entertainment, Rimini is also a city with an astounding artistic heritage, which sees its main junctures in the vestiges of ancient Roman times, in the painting of the fourteenth ce...
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The exhibition on Guido Reni at the Galleria Borghese(Guido Reni. The Sacred and Nature) confronts us with two different but intimately related problems (on which the well-known episode of the damage to Reni's San Francesco has led us to refl...
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Like and even more than the other absolute rulers of the Old Regime, the Medici wanted to scatter their territory with images that represented them as the unchallenged rulers of a finally united and pacified Tuscany. Simple busts, but also solemn f...
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As the lapilli and ashes of Vesuvius submerged Pompeii, work on the construction of the Colosseum was nearing completion in Rome . This coincidence inspired the idea of setting up an exhibition under the arches of the amphitheater that trac...
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