SUSANNA CAVIGLIA

SUSANNA CAVIGLIA

Courses a.y. 2024/2025

Biographical note

I am an Associate Professor of Art History at Bocconi University and an Affiliated Associate Professor at Duke University. I took my degrees at the Sapienza University in Rome and the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris. As a tenured professor, I taught at the University of Limoges, the University of Chicago, and Duke Universiry. I have also acquired curatorial expertise working at the Pompidou Center and the Louvre Museum in Paris among other institutions. I am the Editor-in-Chief of the series The Body in Art (Brepols) and the Field Editor for 18th-century art for caa.reviews. I teach classes on Early Modern Visual art and Culture.


About

I am currently working on four main projects: *Book: Through the foreigner’s wandering eye: art, mobility and ecology in French representations of Rome (1580s-1780s). *Edited book: Material Metamorphosis: Natural Resources, Artmaking and Sustainability in the Early Modern World, Brepols Publishers, with Louise Arizzoli. *Article: “De chair ou de marbre? La sculpture classique à l’épreuve du pouvoir haptique au XVIIIème siècle“, Textimage (revisions before submission). *Book chapter: “Dessiner la partie, penser le tout. Fragments corporels et narration au XVIIIe siècle“ in Sarah Munoz and Colin Debuiche (eds.), Dessin et ‘ingenium’ : les voies de la création, Geneva : Droz (under review).


Research interests

I am an art historian of the Early Modern period and my current research into European visual arts and culture bridges five distinct but related topics: art and politics, representations of the body, cross-cultural relations within the Mediterranean world, art and ecology, and the theory and practice of drawing.


Selected Publications

Kremer, Nathalie; Caviglia, Susanna
Suspendre le temps, continuer l'espace : la division lessingienne à l'épreuve des arts
2023

Caviglia, Susanna
Raconter une histoire, raconter l'histoire. Penser la peinture narrative a la periode moderne (1435-1775)
PERSPECTIVE, 2022

Atkinson, Niall; Caviglia, Susanna
Early Modern Rome on the move: ecological contradictions in the representation of a reemerging city
RES, 2022

Caviglia, Susanna
History, painting, and the seriousness of pleasure in the age of Louis XV
2020

Atkinson, Niall; Caviglia, Susanna
Making sense of Rome in the eighteenth century: walking and the French aesthetic imagination
WORD & IMAGE, 2018

Caviglia, Susanna
Body narratives : motion and emotion in the French Enlightenment
2017

Caviglia, Susanna
Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700-1777)
Apocrifi : memorie e leggende oltre i Vangeli, 2009