Staff

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfisterer – Project Director

Professor of Art History at the Institut für Kunstgeschichte at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (chaired since 2008). In June 2015, he was named Director of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (2015–2017 together with Wolf Tegethoff). Since 2018 he has been the sole director of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte. Since 2021 co-Director of the project “Antiquitatum Thesaurus: Antiquities in European Visual Sources from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries” at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin.

Dr. Cristina Ruggero – Berlin/Munich, Research Staff

Cristina Ruggero has completed her studies in Art history, German literature and Byzantine art at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg im Breisgau. She graduated in Art history with a PhD on Roman baroque funerary monuments. Her research and publications deal with European networking and collecting in the 17th and 18th centuries, particularly between Italy and Germany, the reception of antiquities in drawings and prints, as well as with early photographic documentation. She counts several publications on Filippo Juvarra’s (1678–1736) capricci and architectural drawings based on the study of Roman antiquities– most recently Disegni di Prospettiva Ideale (1732): Un omaggio di Filippo Juvarra ad Augusto il Forte e i rapporti fra le corti di Roma, Torino, Dresda, in: Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, 2023 (FONTES – Text- und Bildquellen zur Kunstgeschichte 1350–1750, Band 94) – and edited together with Ulrich Pfisterer the catalog Phönix aus der Asche, Munich 2019. She is experienced in organizing conferences, curating, and publishing collective volumes and proceedings as well as translating scholarly publications. She has collaborated as research assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, was department coordinator of the Ludwigs-Maximilian University in Munich, and primary investigator in a DFG-funded project on the reception of Hadrian’s villa in the 17th and 18th centuries. She was awarded with the Hanno-und Ilse Hahn Prize, was a fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, New York, and visiting professor at the University La Sapienza in Rome. At present, she is member of the research staff of the digital project “Antiquitatum Thesaurus: Antiquities in European Visual Sources from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries” at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin. For more details, please visit: https://bbaw.academia.edu/CristinaRuggero

Dott.ssa Elena Vaiani – Pisa/Munich, Research Staff

Elena Vaiani is a former researcher of the Scuola Normale Superiore, where she has studied since the beginning of her academic training. She graduated in History of archaeology and her PhD was in History of art criticism (supervisors: prof. Salvatore Settis and Paola Barocchi). The main topics of her research are collections of antiquities and antiquarianism in the Modern Age in Europe, and history of archaeology (numismatics, gems, small objects). She has collaborated with the Istituto per gli Studi filosofici (Naples) for the book La correspondance de Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc avec Lelio Pasqualini (1601–1611) et avec son neveu Pompeo (1613–1622), ed. by V. Carpita and E. Vaiani, Paris 2012, and with the Royal Collection (Windsor Castle) for the two catalogs: The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A/V: The Antichità Diverse album, London 2016, and The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A/VIII (1–2): Egyptian and Roman antiquities and Renaissance decorative arts, with Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò and Helen Whitehouse, London 2018. Her most recent publications are the entries Fortunio Liceti. De Lucernis Antiquorum / Bernard de Montfaucon, L’Antiquité Expliquée et répresentée en figures in Phönix aus der Asche, ed. by Ulrich Pfisterer and Cristina Ruggero, Munich 2019, p. 158–9; 296–7, and “Un correspondant du passé: les manuscrits de Nicolas-Fabri de Peiresc”, in : L’Antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures (1719–1724) de Bernard de Montfaucon: histoire d’un livre, ed. by Véronique Krings, Bordeaux 2021, 2 vols., I, p. 151–89. For more details, please visit: https://sns.academia.edu/ElenaVaiani