Dr. Alice Ottazzi

Alice Ottazzi has a doctorate in art history from the University of Turin and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In recent years she has been post-doctoral fellow at I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for the Italian Renaissance Studies (2024) and at the University of Paris-Nanterre (2022-2024), affiliated scholar for the Lise Meitner Group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and fellow at the Zentralinstitute für Kunstgeschichte in Munich. She has also taught at the universities of Aix-Marseille, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Franche-Comté. Winner of the Wolfgang-Ratjen-Preis (2020), her research focuses mainly on the history of drawing and printmaking with an emphasis on the relationship between the material and theoretical dimensions, on British and French art (17th-18th c.) and on the history of collecting. Her book Trésors d’une île. La ricezione della scuola inglese a Parigi nel XVIII secolo was published in 2024 (Polistampa) with the support of the Tavolozza Foundation.