Biography

Andrea De Marchi, born in Biella in 1962, is full professor of Medieval Art History at the University of Florence, after having been inspector at the Soprintendenza in Pisa (1994-1995), researcher at the University of Lecce (1995-2000) and professor at the University of Udine (2000-2006). He studied in Siena with Luciano Bellosi. His early research, on late Gothic painting in the Marches and Venice, led to the book Gentile da Fabriano. Un viaggio nella pittura italiana alla fine del gotico (1992, reissued in 2006). He has been interested in a wide range of subjects concerning painting, drawing and miniature between the Gothic and the Renaissance periods. In 1996 he founded with other scholars 'Nuovi studi. Rivista d'arte antica e moderna', of which he is editor. He has worked on various exhibitions linked to research projects on 14th and 15th century art, aimed at highlighting lesser-known centres: from Bolzano to Camerino, from Fabriano to Prato, from Lucca to Gubbio. But also in Florence, in 2019, at Palazzo Strozzi, as organizer of an exhibition on Verrocchio together with Francesco Caglioti. He is interested in philological and attributive problems, but also in the restitution of dismembered contexts, the relationship between the works and their reception in the spaces of the churches of the mendicant orders, and the perception of materials. Coordinator of the Doctorate in History of the Arts and Performing Arts at the Universities of Florence, Pisa and Siena, he also entrusts his teaching to the Instagram site #andreademarchi2019.