Salvatore Napolitano

Salvatore Napolitano was educated in Naples and Paris and has been Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Warburg Institute, London; the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris; the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Washington; the Bayeriche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich; the Kunst Historische Institut, Florence; Université de Paris-Sorbonne IV, France; University of Malta, Malta; University of Warsaw, Poland; Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; Italian Institute of Historical Studies “Benedetto Croce,” Naples; and the CNR-Italian Research Council, Rome. He is currently full professor of Humanities (Classics and Italian) at La Scuola d’Italia “Guglielmo Marconi,” New York City, while lecturing at New York University as Visiting Scholar in the Classics Department. His interests are focused on the relationship between visual evidence and written texts; the role of monuments in the transmission of cultural memory and identity; and the reception of the classical past in European modern scholarship. He is the author of the forthcoming “Cold Genius”: Luigi Lanzi’s “History of Painting in Italy.” Art Historiography, Antiquarian Studies, and Philosophy of History in the European Enlightenment.