Alexandre Ragazzi
Alexandre Ragazzi earned his Master’s and PhD degrees in Art History at University of Campinas (UNICAMP), the latter in a joint supervision program with the Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy). He has held a Mellon Visiting Fellowship from the Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies as well as a fellowship from the Fundación Carolina (Madri). From 2011 to 2015, he taught Art History at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (EBA/UFMG). Since 2015, he has been teaching Art History at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (ART/UERJ). He is a member of the Brazilian Committee of Art History (CBHA). His research interests are mainly focused on the relationship between painting and sculpture in Italy during the Renaissance and Mannerism.
Research project
Agostino Veneziano. The Academy of Baccio Bandinelli. 1531.
Title
Art and its models
Area of Inquiry and Research
Art and Reception
Description
Without temporal or geographical restrictions, this project seeks to bring together various subjects and articulate, on the one hand, the technical processes employed to produce a work of art and, on the other, the notion of model as a constitutive and seminal element for artistic production. In this sense, two strands of work can be considered:
a) Studies related to the role of models in artistic creation processes, the term model being understood in both concrete and abstract senses;
b) Analysis of artistic practices developed with the objective of transferring, in the most efficient way possible, the initial model to the work of art.