Curriculum Vitae
Giovanni Freni currently works in the Photographic Collection of the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History. He took his Laurea in Lettere Moderne at the Università degli Studi di Messina, and his MA and Ph.D. at the Courtauld Institute of Art with a thesis on Art Architecture and Patronage in Arezzo 1277–1400. He worked as a research assistant at the Courtauld Institute and as a research scholar at Princeton University. His research interests focus on civic art and the liturgical space, and the interaction of art, space and the public in the late Middle Ages in Central and Northern Italy.