Scholar
Marco Tanzi
Art historian specialising in North Italian painting between 15th and 17th century, formerly Professor of History of Modern Art at the University of Salento
Marco Tanzi was born in Cremona in 1956 and was full professor of the History of Modern Art at the University of Salento, where he taught for thirty years. His interests focus primarily on figurative culture in northern Italy from the 15th to the 17th centuries, on wandering artists pursuing unusual itineraries in Italy’s artistic geography and, more recently, on the Renaissance in the area of Otranto. In addition to a substantial number of essays for leading scholarly periodicals, he has published numerous books, including I Campi, 2004; Arcigoticissimo Bembo, 2011; La Zenobia di don Álvaro, 2015, La Nuda dormiente and Problemi di anticlassicismo padano, 2024. The exhibitions he has curated include Pedro Fernández da Murcia, lo Pseudo Bramantino, Barocco nella Bassa. Pittori del Seicento e del Settecento in una terra di confine, Disegni cremonesi del Cinquecento, Attorno agli amori and Camillo Boccaccino sacro e profano, while he has co-curated Il Rinascimento nelle terre ticinesi (2010), Bramantino a Milano (2012), Genovesino in Cremona (2017) and in Piacenza (2018) and Rinascimento sul Garda (2024).
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