Elizabeth Adan Sky Bergman Jefferson Clarke Daniel Dove Giancarlo Fiorenza Tera Galanti Robert Howell Chuck Jennings George Jercich Eric Johnson Mary LaPorte Enrica Lovaglio Charmaine Martinez Kathryn McCormick Michael Barton Miller Brian Priest Dr. Jean Wetzel | Giancarlo FiorenzaAssistant ProfessorArt HistoryPhone: 805.756.5066 Email: gfiorenz@calpoly.edu Office: Dexter 164
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Giancarlo Fiorenza joined the Department of Art and Design in 2008 as an Assistant Professor of Art History. His research focuses on the production and reception of mythological painting within the Italian Renaissance court as well as on the relationship between literary and visual genres. His book, Dosso Dossi: Paintings of Myth, Magic, and the Antique (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008), investigates Dosso’s highly allusive and eloquent portrayal of ancient and vernacular forms. A related article, “Penelope’s Web: Francesco Primaticcio’s Epic Revision at Fontainebleau” appeared in 2006 in the journal Renaissance Quarterly, and addresses the pictorial combination of epic subject matter and lyric sentiments as it pertains to the portrayal of Ulysses and Penelope at the French court of Fontainebleau.
His teaching covers matters of artistic invention, the creative process of imitation, reception theory, materials and technique, patronage, the role of the market, and nature and the arts. Course topics include the Art of Love, Michelangelo, and general surveys on ancient to Renaissance and Baroque art.
Professor Fiorenza received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and has worked in both the museum and academic fields, holding curatorial positions at the Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio) and the Georgia Museum of Art, while also teaching at the University of Toronto and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has organized exhibitions ranging from Italian Renaissance gold ground painting to religious prints from Germany and the Netherlands. He has been awarded fellowships from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Professor Fiorenza is currently working on the relationship and rivalry between painting and sculpture in fifteenth-century Italy.
Select Publications
Book
2008 Dosso Dossi: Paintings of Myth, Magic, and the Antique (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008) Link to Book and Publisher
Articles and Essays
2008 “Introduction,” in Robert R. Coleman and Babette Bohn, The Art of ‘Disegno’: Italian Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, 2008), 12-19.
2008 Devotional Prints from Germany and the Netherlands, dossier exhibition catalogue (Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, 2008)
2006 “Penelope’s Web: Francesco Primaticcio’s Epic Revision at Fontainebleau” Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006): 795-827.
2004 “Dosso Dossi and Celio Calcagnini at the Court of Ferrara,” in Artists at Court: Image-Making and Identity, 1300-1550, ed. Stephen Campbell (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum), 176-87.
2004 “Fables, Ruins, and the bell’imperfetto in the Art of Dosso Dossi,” Modern Language Notes 119 (2004): 271-98.
2001 “Pandolfo Collenuccio’s Specchio d’Esopo and the Portrait of the Courtier,” I Tatti Studies 9 (2001): 63-87.
2000 Dosso Dossi, Garofalo, and the Costabili Polyptych: Imaging Spiritual Authority,” The Art Bulletin 82 (2000): 252-79.
Reviews
2007 Review of Stephen Campbell, The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the ‘Studiolo’ of Isabella d’Este (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), in The Art Bulletin 89 (2007): 815-18.
2006 Review of Rebecca Zorach, Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), in Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006): 898-900.
2004 Review of The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press; Detroit Institute of the Arts, 2002), in CAA.Reviews http://www.caareviews.org/reviews
Conference Papers for 2008-2009
3/09 “Myths of Poetic and Pictorial Creation in the Ariosto and Dosso,” Symposium: L’Arioste e les arts, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
3/09 “Ridolfo Sirigatti, Baltasar Suares, and the Medici: Portraits of Nobility within the Order of Saint Stephen,” Panel Chair and Presenter at the Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles.
2/09 “Hebrew, Hieroglyphs, and the Secrets of Divine Wisdom in Ludovico Mazzolino’s Devotional Paintings,” Symposium: The Secret Spaces of Early Modern Europe, Huntington Library, San Marino.
10/08 “Ridolfo Sirigatti, Baltasar Suares, and the Medici: Sculpture, Portraiture, and Politics in a Florentine Palace,” with Eike Schmidt, Sixth Quadrennial Italian Renaissance Sculpture Conference, Memphis.
10/08 “Ridolfo Sirigatti and the Prehistory of Baroque Portrait Sculpture,” with Eike Schmidt, Symposium: Bernini and the Early History of Baroque Portrait Sculpture, The Getty Center, Los Angeles.
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