Fabrizio Federici

Fabrizio Federici
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 Mo(n)stre.

Portrait of a patron between Rome and the Apuan Alps: cardinal Alderano Cybo

Portrait of a patron between Rome and the Apuan Alps: cardinal Alderano Cybo

by Fabrizio Federici, written on 05/04/2024
Categories: Works and artists
Tag: Arte antica - arte barocca - Mecenati di Toscana - Seicento
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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Copies indistinguishable from originals: when is it worthwhile to display them in museums?

Copies indistinguishable from originals: when is it worthwhile to display them in museums?

by Fabrizio Federici, written on 22/06/2023
Categories: Opinions
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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The Uffizi Diffusi in Massa and the future of the Ducal Palace.

The Uffizi Diffusi in Massa and the future of the Ducal Palace.

by Fabrizio Federici, written on 29/05/2023
Categories: Opinions
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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Rimini gets a makeover: the refurbishment of the City Museum

Rimini gets a makeover: the refurbishment of the City Museum

by Fabrizio Federici, written on 03/04/2023
Categories: News Focus
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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If the exhibition threatens to eat the museum. Guido Reni at the Borghese Gallery

If the exhibition threatens to eat the museum. Guido Reni at the Borghese Gallery

by Fabrizio Federici, written on 14/05/2022
Categories: Opinions
Tag: Musei - Patrimonio
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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Pietro Tacca's Four Moors in Livorno. Beauty enslaved

Pietro Tacca's Four Moors in Livorno. Beauty enslaved

by Fabrizio Federici, written on 23/10/2021
Categories: Works and artists
Tag: Arte antica - Seicento - Toscana - Livorno - Pietro Tacca
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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Pompeii and Rome, two exhibitions and an amphitheater (and why remaking the Colosseum arena is a good idea)

Pompeii and Rome, two exhibitions and an amphitheater (and why remaking the Colosseum arena is a good idea)

by Fabrizio Federici, written on 11/03/2021
Categories: Exhibition reviews
Tag: Pompei - Campania - Archeologia
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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A people of statues: the Torlonia Collection on display

A people of statues: the Torlonia Collection on display

by Fabrizio Federici, written on 02/11/2020
Categories: Exhibition reviews
Tag: Arte antica - Roma
In an atmosphere of great expectation, further heightened by the postponement imposed by the health emergency, the exhibition dedicated to ancient sculptures from the Torlonia Collection, curated by Salvatore Settis and Carlo Gasparri, opened its...
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