Dr Giorgio Tagliaferro
About
Giorgio Tagliaferro has received his PhD in History of Art at the Università Ca' Foscari in Venice (2004), where he had previously completed his BA and MA. He was also lecturer in the same university (2004-2010). He was visiting lecturer at the Charles University in Prague (2010, 2011), and a research fellow in this Department (2013). He also collaborated with the teaching programme of the European Centre of the Emerson College of Boston, MA, based in Well, The Netherlands (2007-2013).
Between 2004 and 2009 he lead a team research project on Titian’s workshop, funded by the Fondazione Centro Studi Tiziano e Cadore, and was the main author of the resulting book Le botteghe di Tiziano (Florence, 2009). He was a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute (2012), with a research project titled ‘Inside Paolo Veronese: Transformation of Ideas into Images’, the recipient of a British Academy Small Grant (2015-16), with a project titled 'Leo Steinberg on Titian: A Method of Seeing Artworks in Their Contexts', and the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2016-17), with a book project on the painted cycle of the Great Council and Scrutiny halls in the Doge's Palace, Venice.
Giorgio is a member of the University of Warwick's Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, and the History of Art department's 'Art in Italy 1200 -1700: Research on Venice and Northern Italy' research cluster.
Research interests
Renaissance and Early Modern art, especially Italian and Venetian; visual arts and the display of power; arts and spectatorship; art theory and criticism; drawing and creative process; artists’ workshops; devotional practice and visual culture; patronage and artistic production. Further Information
Teaching and supervision
Modules taught might include:
- Venice: Rise and Myth
- The Renaissance: North and South
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Mannerism: Art and Artistry in Sixteenth-Century Europe
- Introduction to Art History: Classicism and the Arts of Christianity
- Methods in Art History
- Then and Now: Displaying the Renaissance
Administrative roles
- Director of Research
- Venice Programme Coordinator
Selected publications
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Forthcoming (accepted): ‘Invention: Introduction’, in Maria Aresin and Thomas Dalla Costa (eds.),Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers circa 1420 to 1620(Paul Holberton, 2023)
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Forthcoming (accepted): ‘The Meeting of Sebastiano Ziani and Alexander III in the Great Council Hall: Staging, Viewing, and Understanding the Body Politic in Late Sixteenth-Century Venice’, in Giovanni Florio and Alessandro Metlica (eds.), Entangled Republican Spaces in Early Modern Venice(Brepols, 2023)
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Forthcoming (accepted): ‘An Artist’s Address Book: Notes on Venice’s Artistic Geography’, in Kristin Love Huffman (ed.), A View of Venice: Portrait of a Renaissance City (Duke University Press, 2023)
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‘Paolo Piazza, alias fra’ Cosmo da Castelfranco: pittore cappuccino, pittore di corte’, in Paolo Asolan, Paolo Spolaore and Giorgio Tagliaferro, Una pala e un pittore ritrovati. Paolo Piazza a Castelfranco Veneto e in Europa (Antiga: Crocetta del Montello, 2023): 91-115
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‘Introduction: The Composition of Themes and Variations by Titian and His Workshop’, Peter Humfrey (ed.), Titian: Themes and Variations (Florence: Mandragora, 2022): 11-35
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Tintoretto: Identity, Practice and Meaning, co-edited with Marie-Louise Lillywhite and Tom Nichols (Rome: Viella, 2022)
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‘Beyond Rivalry: Tintoretto and the Challenge of Composition’, in Tintoretto: Identity, Practice and Meaning, edited by Marie-Louise Lillywhite, Tom Nichols, and Giorgio Tagliaferro (Rome: Viella, 2022): 85-120
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‘The “Eternal Mystery of the Picture Plane”: Leo Steinberg’s Unfinished Study on Titian’, Getty Research Journal 12 (2020): 151-193
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‘Les symboles du pouvoir’, in Gabriella Belli and Elena Marchetti (eds.), Venise révelée, exh. cat., Paris, Grand Palais Immersif (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux – Grand Palais, 2022): 106-113
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‘La ricostruzione di Palazzo Ducale’, in Andrea Bellieni, Robert Echols, Frederick Ilchman and Gabriele Matino (eds.), Venetia 1600. Nascite e Rinascite, exh. cat., Venice, Palazzo Ducale (Venice: Museum Musei, 2021): 191-196 [English version: ‘Rebuilding Palazzo Ducale’, in Venetia 1600: Births and Rebirths: 191-196]
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‘Celebrating the Most Serene Republic’, in Robert Echols and Frederick Ilchman (eds.), Tintoretto, Artist of Renaissance Venice, exh. cat., Venice, Palazzo Ducale, and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018): 208-217 [Italian edition: ‘In celebrazione della Serenissima’, in Robert Echols and Frederick Ilchman (eds.), Tintoretto, 1519-1594 (Venice: Marsilio, 2018): 208-217]
- ‘Procurators on the Threshold: Sitters and Beholders in Palma Giovane’s Crociferi Entombment’, Artibus et Historiae, 74 (2016): 153-176
- ‘Drafting Characters: Action and Enactment in Veronese’s Creative Process’, in Bernard Aikema, Thomas Dalla Costa, and Paola Marini (eds.), Paolo Veronese: giornate di studio (Venice: Lineadacqua-Fondazione Cini, 2016): 102-113
- ‘Alcune considerazioni sul ciclo pittorico delle lunette superiori’, in Bernard Aikema, Massimo Mancini, and Paola Modesti (eds.), «In centro et oculis urbis nostre». La chiesa e il monastero di San Zaccaria (Venice: Marcianum Press, 2016): 207-208
- 'A New Agony in the Garden by Titian and His Collaborators, and the Problem of Originality in Late Titian’, Artibus et Historiae, 72 (2015): 107-126
- ‘Veronese pittore di Stato’, in Bernard Aikema and Paola Marini (eds.), Paolo Veronese: L’illusione della realtà, exh. cat. (Milan: Electa, 2014): 164-172
- 'Il "Mito" ripensato: trasformazioni della retorica figurativa pubblica tra Lepanto e l’Interdetto', in Benjamin Paul (ed.), Celebrazione e autocritica. La Serenissima e la ricerca dell’identità veneziana nel tardo Cinquecento (Rome: Viella, 2014), pp. 193-231
- 'Regesto per Orazio Vecellio', Studi Tizianeschi, 8 (2011): 68-98
- 'Clientele cittadine, affari privati e produzione di bottega: Tiziano e i Balbi dal Legname', Venezia Cinquecento, 41 (2011): 107-161
- Le botteghe di Tiziano (Firenze: Alinari, 2009) [with Bernard Aikema]
- 'Mito di Venezia e iconografia di stato tra Lepanto e l’Interdetto: revisione di una categoria storiografica', in Alessandro Cinquegrani, Flavia Crisanti, Luca Lombardo, and Anna Rinaldin (eds.), Cartoline Veneziane (Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali, 2009): 19-35
- 'La pala di Serravalle e la congiuntura degli anni ’40', Venezia Cinquecento, 35 (2008): 41-77
Qualifications
BA, MA and PhD (Ca' Foscari, Venice)
Associate Professor
Director of Research (History of Art)
Venice Programme Coordinator (History of Art Venice)
Contact:
Tel: + 44 (0)24 7652 3007
Email: g.tagliaferro@warwick.ac.uk
Office: Faculty of Arts Building, 5.68