Michele Bacci
Curriculum vitae
PERSONAL PARTICULARS:
Born in Pisa, 17 June 1970
Married, father of two children
Place of residence: Grand-Rue 52 – CH-1700 Fribourg
E-mail: [email protected]
PRESENT POSITION
University of Fribourg, Full Professor, Chair of Medieval Art
Avenue de l’Europe, 20
CH-1700 Fribourg
EDUCATION
1989
Winner of the public competition for admission to undergraduate studies at
the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
1989-1993
Undergraduate study in Humanities in Pisa University; undergraduate
program in Art history at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. M.A. (diploma
di laurea) in 1993: dissertation on the topic “Researches on the history of
cult-images in Italy”, advisor Enrico Castelnuovo. Final licence for the
undergraduate program of the Scuola Normale Superiore in 1993.
1994
Winner of the public competition for admission to Ph.D. studies at the Scuola
Normale Superiore, Pisa.
Post-graduate study at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Ph.D. in 1999,
advisors Enrico Castelnuovo, André Vauchez, Jean-Claude Schmitt,
Gabriella Rossetti; title: “Sacred images and individual piety in the Later
Middle Ages. Studies on the role played by works of art in devotional
practice (Central Italy, 13th-14th centuries)”.
One-year attendance of specialization courses in Byzantine art at the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, supported by a fellowship of the University of
Perugia.
1994-1998
1998-1999
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
1999- 2002
Research maker in Medieval art history, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
October 2002January 2009
Associate Professor of Medieval art history, Università di Siena.
Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, within the framework of an exchange agreement between the
Hebrew University and the University of Siena.
May 2010
Cycle of seminars at the Department of Art History of the University of
Tokyo
September 2011- Chair of Medieval Art History, Department of Historical Sciences, University
of Fribourg
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
2002-2011
2003-2009
2003-2011
2004-today
2011-today
2012-today
2012-2014
2013-today
Member of the teaching staff and directory board of the Advanced School of
Art History, University of Siena (Scuola di specializzazione in Storia
dell’arte).
Member of the directory board of the Post-Graduate School for Secondary
Teachers’ Training of the Universities of Tuscany (SSIS Toscana), in charge
for the planning of teaching programs in art history.
Member of the directory board of the M.A. in Art history, Faculty of
Humanities, University of Siena.
Member of the scientific board of the doctorate on Visual Representation
Studies of the Italian Institute of Human Sciences (Florence/Siena).
Member of the Medieval Institute, University of Fribourg.
Member of the scientific board of the Doctoral school in Medieval Studies,
Universities of Fribourg, Lausanne, Geneva, and Neuchâtel.
Director of Medieval Institute, University of Fribourg.
Director of the Department of Historical Sciences, School of Humanities,
University of Fribourg
RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
1989-1993
1994-1998
1992-1998
1998-1999
1999-2001
2003-2005
2003-2005
2004-2006
2004-2006
2005-2007
2013
2014
Ordinary fellowship, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Fellowship for Ph.D. candidates, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Several fellowships for attending courses at the École Normale Supérieure,
Paris
Grants for attending courses abroad, University of Perugia
Research grants provided by the Scuola Normale Superiore research program
for young scholars, on the topic “The Pisan 13th century maniera greca as an
outcome of Mediterranean cultural interaction”.
Research project granted by the University of Siena (program PAR 2003) on
the topic: “Artistic manifestations and forms of individual piety: on some
aspects of the history of image worship in 13th and 14th century Italy”.
Research project granted by the Italian Ministry of University and Research
(FIRB –national research funds) on the topic: “The image of power in Late
Medieval Italy: some case-studies”.
Research project granted by the Italian Research Council (CNR), on the topic
“The sea as a factor of artistic and cultural integration: circulation and
interaction of artistic, iconographic, and functional models along the
searoutes of the Eastern Mediterranean in the 13th-15th centuries”.
Research project granted by the University of Siena and the Italian Ministry
of University and Research (PRIN – cofinanced research program), on the
topic “Images of new saints in Tuscany during the late Middle Ages: artistic,
iconographical, and compositional aspects”.
Research project granted by the University of Siena (program PAR 2005) on
the topic “Cultural, artistic, and iconographic exchange between Italy and the
Levant in the 12th-14th centuries”.
Founding granted by Fribourg University for the preparation of a project to
be submitted to the Swiss National Found.
Research project, financed by the Swiss National Found, on the topic “From
Venice to the Holy Land. Mise-en-scène and Perceptions of the Holy Sites
along the Mediterranean Searoutes (1300-1550)”
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2000
2002-today
2005
2005
2007-2009
2008-2009
2008-today
2010-2011
2013-2014
Member of the scientific committee of the exhibition Luca Evangelista.
Parola e immagine tra Oriente e Occidente (Padua, Diocesan Museum, 14
October 2000-6 January 2001), curated by Giordana Mariani Canova.
Co-editor of the scientific periodical Iconographica, published by the Society
for the Study of Latin Middle Ages (SISMEL).
Member of the scientific committee, presided by M.S. Calò Mariani, of the
international congress on the theme I santi venuti dal mare (Bari-Brindisi,
14-18 December 2005)
Member of a team of scientific consultants (including Prof. Spiridione
Curuni, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, and Dr. Nicola Santopuoli,
University of Ferrara) appointed by UNDP (United Nations Development
Program) to prepare a report on the sustainable development of the
archaeological area of Agios Philon/Aphendrika (Cyprus).
Member of the scientific committee of the exhibition Byzantium: 330-1453,
curated by Robin Cormack and Maria Vassilaki (London, Royal Academy of
Arts, October 2008-March 2009).
Member of the national board for the celebrations of the millenary of the
basilica of Torcello, instituted by decree of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Member of the scientific advisory board (Fachbeirat) for the Max-Planck arthistorical institutes in Italy (the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and the
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz).
Member of the International Team for the Survey, Assessment Study, and
Conservation Plan of the Nativity Church at Bethlehem, charged by the
Palestinian Authority to provide a preliminary report for the restoration of the
building.
Member of an international team for the restoration of the mural paintings in
the Armenian church in Famagusta (Cyprus), under the Auspices of the
World Heritage Fund.
PROMOTION AND ORGANIZATION OF EXHIBITIONS AND SCIENTIFIC EVENTS
2000-2001
2003
2005-2007
2009-2010
2012-2013
Scientific coordinator of the international workshop on Kosovo’s cultural
heritage: Monumenti del Kosovo. Un patrimonio da salvare, Pisa, Scuola
Normale Superiore, 29-30 March 2001.
Scientific curator and editor of the international Congress on the artist in
Byzantium: L’artista a Bisanzio e nel mondo cristiano-orientale (Pisa, Scuola
Normale Superiore, 21-22 November 2003).
Curator and president of the scientific committee of the major exhibition on
the image of Saint Nicholas between East and West: San Nicola. Splendori
d’arte d’Oriente e d’Occidente (Bari, Castello Svevo, 7 December 2006-6
May 2007).
Curator of the exhibition La pietra e il leone. San Pietro e san Marco
nell’Oriente cristiano (Vicenza, Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, 5 June10 October 2010).
Scientific coordinator of the Freiburger Kolloquium 2013 on the topic “The
Holy Portolano. The Sacred Geography of Navigation in the Middle Ages”
(Fribourg, Mediävistisches Institut, 2-4 September 2013)
HONOURS
2014
Elected honorary member of the Society of Christian Archaeology
(Χριστιανική Ἀρχεολογική Ἑταιρεία) of Athens
LANGUAGES
Latin, ancient Greek
Italian (mother language), English, French, Modern Greek (spoken and written); basic
knowledge of Spanish, German, and Russian