Dr. Giada Policicchio

Giada Policicchio is a scientific assistant on the editorial staff of the Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes. In July 2024, she received her PhD in History of Modern Art from the University of Salerno. Her dissertation examines the ancient art exhibitions in Italy between 1902 and 1922 through the rediscovery of seventeenth-century southern painting. Her research interests include Baroque painting, the reception of seventeenth-century art in the modern age, art exhibitions, collecting and art market in the twentieth-century. In addition, she is interested in the question of identity in an interdisciplinary sense. In 2021 she co-organized (with Davide Ferri) the international conference Against identity? Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy.

She previously studied at the University of Calabria (B.A. 2012) and at the University of Florence (M.A. 2016 and “Diploma di Specializzazione” in Art History 2020). She has been the recipient of predoctoral fellowships from the Fondazione Roberto Longhi in Florence (2018) and the Istituto di Studi Filosofici in Naples (2019). She was previously a research assistant in Department Gerhard Wolf’ at the Kunsthistorisches Institut (2017-2023).