Dr. Lorenza Melli, Hab. Prof.

Si è formata all’Università di Firenze con Mina Gregori (Laurea 1993 e Specializzazione 1997). Borse di studio allo Zentralinstitut di Monaco di Baviera (Ratijen-Preis 1995), all’Opificio delle Pietre Dure settore dipinti su tavola per il Progetto Giotto (2001), al Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (1997-2001 e 2006-2009). Collaboratrice scientifica delle Staatliche Kunstsammlungen di Dresda (2002-2006) come autrice del Catalogo dei disegni italiani del ‘400 nel Kupferstich-Kabinett (2006). Curatrice di studi e convegni su tecniche e tipologie del disegno (con M. Faietti e A. Nova, Le tecniche del disegno rinascimentale 2008; con M.W. Kwakkelstein, From Pattern to Nature in Italian Renaissance Drawing 2011; con S. Padovani e S. Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Aver Disegno 2022). Ricercatrice dal 2012 del Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1500, già a Monaco e ora alla Bibliotheca Hertziana di Roma (MPI), ha pubblicato il volume 16° su I disegni di Antonio e Piero del Pollaiolo (gennaio 2023). Guest curator per il settore disegni della mostra Verrocchio alla National Gallery of Art di Washington (2019). Ha ricevuto l’Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (MIUR) per l’insegnamento della Storia dell’Arte (II fascia) nel 2012. E’ stata Visiting Professor alla University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia ( 2010) e Professore a contratto di Storia del Disegno e della Grafica all’Università di Firenze (2020-2021).

  • Early and Renaissance Drawings
  • Goldsmiths and Graphics in Quattrocento
  • Scientific Analysis on works of art
  • Watermarks
  • Wolfgang-Ratjen-Preis 1995 (Conjuncta-Foerderpreis) by the Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte in Munich

Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1500

Schmitt-Degenhart Stiftung/Roma, Bibliotheca Hertziana-MPI

The "Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1500" is a research and publication project of the earliest Italian drawings, founded in the 1950s at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich by former director Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, later joined by other researchers. In 2018 the project, with the photographic collection and library, was donated to the Photothek of the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut in Rome. The systematic publication of Italian Old Master drawings proceeds by regional areas and schools or by individual artists. After the volumes devoted since 1968 to central and southern Italy, Venice, Verona, Jacopo Bellini, Pisanello, Badile Album, Volume 16 has been freshly published in January 2023 by Lorenza Melli, The Drawings of Antonio and Piero del Pollaiolo, Teil III, Toskana, Band 16, Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2023. The research for this publication has been conducted with the facilities of the Kusthistorisches Institut in Florenz.

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