Forschungsinteressen
- Forgery
- Restoration
- Antiquarianism
- History of collecting
Forschungsprojekt
True Lies: Forging and Manipulating Antiquities in Renaissance Italy
Vita
Barbara Furlotti is currently Census x Hertziana x Warburg fellow, her project
focussing on forgery and manipulations of antiquities in early modern Italy. After studing Art History in Pavia and Bologna, she
received her PhD from Queen Mary College University of London (2009). She held international fellowships in Europe and the US, including the Getty
Residential Fellowship (2009-2010) and the Marie Curie Fellowship at the
Warburg Institute (2012-2015). Barbara has contributed to numerous international
and multidisciplinary research projects, and has published extensively on the
history of collections and display (especially in relation to Mantua and Rome),
the mechanisms of the art market in the early modern period, and on antiquarians,
dealers, and collectors of antiquities. Her most recent book, Antiquities in Motion: From Excavation Sites to
Renaissance Collections (Getty
Publications, 2019; shortlisted for the Charles Rufus
Morey book award, 2020), offers a dynamic
reconstruction of the journey of ancient finds from the place of
their discovery to the market places where they were sold, the workshops where
they were restored, and the antiquarians’ warehouses where their value was
assessed. She has co-curated the exhibitions
‘Giulio Romano: arte e desiderio’ (2019-2020) and ‘Giulio Romano: il potere
delle cose’ (2022-2023).
Mitgliedschaften/Ehrenämter
- Member of the Renaissance Society of America
- Member of the Society of the History of Collecting
- Member of ICOM