Claudio Parisi Presicce named new capitol superintendent of cultural heritage

Claudio Parisi Presicce has been appointed as the new Capitoline Superintendent of Cultural Heritage.Announcing the appointment of the director of the Capitoline Museums and Archaeological Museums of the Capitoline Superintendency of Cultural Heritage was Rome’s Culture Councillor Miguel Gotor.

Parisi Presicce will thus take the place of Cinzia Esposito.

“To him go my best wishes for the important task to which he is called,” Gotor said. “To the outgoing interim superintendent, Cinzia Esposito, on the other hand, go my sincerest thanks for the work she has done in recent months, giving continuity to the action of a structure that is fundamental for Capitoline cultural policies.”

Born in 1960, Claudio Parisi Presicce has organized and participated in national and international scientific committees for conferences and seminars, for exhibitions and cultural events, and for celebrations and anniversaries; he has participated in organizing and conducting specialization courses in excavation and restoration for the technical staff of theAdministration at the Antiquities of Libya at the invitation first of the University of Urbino (1994-1995) and then of the University of Palermo (1996-2009), holders of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Cyrene.

He has curated exhibitions and was scientific director of restoration interventions on Capitoline monuments and ancient art works; he supervised the final phase of the restoration and musealization of the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius and was part of the working group for the remounting of the works at the reopening of the Capitoline Museums in 2000. He supervised in the Capitoline Museums the remounting of the Egyptian Room in the Palazzo Nuovo in 2007 and the new layout of the Medieval Room in the Palazzo dei Conservatori in 2008. A member of Italian and foreign academies and cultural institutes (Société Nazionale des Antiquaires de France, German Archaeological Institute, Society for Libyan Studies, Department of Art of the University of Virginia, U.S.A), he is a founding member of the Center for Cyrenaean and Leptitan Archaeology and the Malophoros Mission in Selinunte, is part of the team in charge of the setting up of the Selinunte Museum (Baglio Florio). Since 1981 he has been a member of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Cyrene (Libya), where he has directed numerous excavation campaigns, and since 1996 he has been scientific director of the excavation and restoration site of the Temple of Zeus.

Claudio Parisi Presicce named new capitol superintendent of cultural heritage

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