Dalma
Frascarelli

With a degree, a specialist qualification and a PhD in Art History from the Sapienza University of Rome, she lectures in History of Modern Art and History of Fashion at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where she served as Deputy Director from 2013 to 2019. She holds the national scientific qualification for Associate Professor of Art History at universities and is a member of the scientific committee of the National Institute of Roman Studies. In addition to her teaching activities at universities and academies, she has dedicated herself to the protection and promotion of artistic heritage, serving as a consultant for the Supervisory Bodies of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and participating in research projects on churches, museums and historic residences in Rome and Lazio, as well as on the collection of works held by the National Print Room. Her research focuses on various aspects of art from the late 16th century to the first half of the 18th century, in particular art collecting, the relationship between art and the Counter-Reformation, and the relationship between art and the history of ideas, topics on which she has been invited to give lectures and to participate in and organise conferences. She has published numerous essays in specialist journals and multi-author volumes, and is the author of the books La casa dell’eretico. Arte e cultura nella quadreria romana di Pietro Gabrielli (1660–1734), Istituto di Studi Romani, Rome, 2004 (with L. Testa), which won first prize in the women’s writing category in the Visual Arts section of ‘Il Paese delle Donne’ (6th edition, 2005); Paolo Falconieri tra scienza e arcadia. Le collezioni di un intellettuale del tardo barocco romano, Campisano, Rome 2012; La Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Jaca Book, Milan 2012 (with A.M. Piazzoni, A. Manfredi, A. Zuccari, P. Vian); L’arte del dissenso. Pittura e libertinismi nell’Italia del Seicento, Einaudi, Turin 2016.