Location: VIA PAOLI, 15, 56126 PISA
Email: luca.palozzi@unipi.it
Profile
Unit: Dipartimento di Civilta' e Forme del Sapere
Scientific-disciplinary sector: Storia dell'Arte Medievale ARTE-01/A
Positions
- Vice Presidente - Scienze dei Beni Culturali (Laurea)
Luca Palozzi is Associate Professor in the History of Medieval Art.
He holds a PhD in Art History from the Scuola Normale Superiore. Before joining the Università di Pisa in 2022, he held academic positions at Villa I Tatti-The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, and the University of Edinburgh. His research has been supported by the Kress Foundation, the Max-Planck Gesellschaft, the British Academy for the Humanities and the Social Sciences, the Henry Moore Foundation, and the Association of Art Historians (now Association for Art History).
He specializes in medieval Italian art, namely sculpture, with an emphasis on the relationship between art theory and practice; the dialectic between the different artistic media; materials and techniques; as well as issues of artistic geography, historiography and style.
He is also interested in porosities between medieval science and art, in ideas of 'naturalism' and 'the real', and in how knowledge of the natural world was experienced, created, organized, and shared during the Middle Ages. He has worked with Ariella Minden on the topic of artistic failure, and an edited volume is underway.
Research events organized include the exploratory seminars "Casting the Real in the Middle Ages" (with Emanuele Lugli), that were held at the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of York in 2017, and at the University of Edinburgh in 2018. In 2020, he co-organized with Ariella Minden and Alessandro Nova the international conference "Failure: Understanding Art as Process, 1150-1750" at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. In 2025, he organized with Gregor Meinecke and Vera-Simone Schulz the international conference "Pseudo-scripts. (Il)legibility & Ornamentation" at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
His work has appeared or is forthcoming in international journals, such as the "Burlington Magazine", "Source", the "Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz", and the "Sculpture Journal".
Teaching
Teaching activity
Teaching responsibility for modules/courses
- Storia dell'arte medievale in italia e in europa (cod. 268LL) per Laurea in Scienze dei beni culturali
Insegnamenti condivisi/mutuati:- Istituzioni di storia dell'arte medievale in italia e in europa (per non storici dell'arte) (cod. 328LL) - Laurea in Lettere
- Storia dell'arte medievale in italia e in europa (cod. 268LL) - Laurea in Filosofia
- Istituzioni di storia dell'arte medievale in italia e in europa (per non storici dell'arte) (cod. 328LL) - Laurea in Lingue e letterature straniere
- Istituzioni di storia dell'arte medievale in italia e in europa (per non storici dell'arte) (cod. 328LL) - Laurea in Scienze dei beni culturali
- Storia dell'arte medievale in italia e in europa (cod. 268LL) - Laurea in Storia
Student consultation hours
Mode of office hours: Prossimo ricevimento /Office hours for the current week 23 maggio, ore 14.00, in modalità online su Teams. Si prega di contattare il Prof. via email. 23 May, 2.00 p.m. , online on MS Teams. Please, e-mail Professor Palozzi in advance.
Location: Studio del docente, Polo Guidotti, via Trieste, 40. Prof. Palozzi's study, Polo Guidotti, via Trieste, 40.
Time: Venerdì, dalle 14.30 (ma si controlli sempre il campo 'note' per la settimana in corso) Every Friday during term, starting at 14.30. NB: Gli studenti che intendono partecipare al Bando Erasmus scrivano al professore al più presto. I tempi sono stretti e andrà fissato un ricevimento per discutere sede e piano di studio (LA). Grazie. See the notes below for any changes / Please, email prof. Palozzi in advance Eventuali cambiamenti di giorno e orario sono indicati nel campo note in basso. Si prega di contattare il docente via e-mail.
Research
Publications
- The Intellectual Education of the Italian Renaissance Artist. Angela Dressen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. x + 386 pp. $99.99 (Palozzi, Luca - 2024 - 1.2 Recensione in rivista)
- Nicola and Giovanni Pisano in Colour: On 'Seeing White' and the Classical Canon (Palozzi, Luca - 2024 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))
- L’Adriatico e la «nuova talassologia» del Mediterraneo: scultura, arti plastiche e mobilità culturale nel Basso Medioevo (Palozzi, Luca - 2023 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))
- Bernardino Feliciangeli [1862-1921]: corrispondenza con Mary e Bernard Berenson e Lionello Venturi (Palozzi, Luca - 2022 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))
- An Allegory of Prudence attributed to Nicola Pisano’s workshop (Palozzi, Luca; Alfredo Vergani, Graziano - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Recensione a il Medioevo a Pistoia: Crocevia di artisti fra Romanico e Gotico, a cura di E. Neri Lusanna, A. Labriola, A. Tartuferi (Palozzi, Luca - 2022 - 1.2 Recensione in rivista)
- «Còr d’ignavo», «fama scura»: Giovanni Pisano, Dante e le origini del giudizio artistico (Palozzi, Luca - 2022 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))
- Captive Ornament: A Lost Fatimid Model in the Pisano Workshop and its Historiography (Palozzi, Luca - 2021 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))
- Recensione a Optics, Ethics and Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Looking into Peter of Limoges’s Moral Treatise on the Eye, a cura di H. L. Kessler-R. G. Newhauser (Palozzi, Luca - 2020 - 1.2 Recensione in rivista)
- Recensione a L'Altare di San Giovanni del Museo dell'Opera del Duomo di Firenze. Il restauro [2006-2012], a cura di C. Innocenti (Palozzi, Luca - 2020 - 1.2 Recensione in rivista)