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  • Giulia Ceriani Sebregondi

    Giulia Ceriani Sebregondi

    Principal Investigator
    Giulia Ceriani Sebregondi is an architect and architectural historian. Since 2018 she has joined the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design at the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", where she is currently Associate Professor. She is a specialist in Italian Early Modern Architecture, with particular consideration of the materiality of architecture (technical and practical aspects of the design and the building process). She has published her research in volumes and specialized journals and has participated in and organized national and international conferences. Previously, for several years she as served as an Official Architect at the Ministry of Culture.
    Francesca Mattei

    Francesca Mattei

    Associated Investigator
    Francesca Mattei, architect and architectural historian, is an associate professor of History of Architecture at the Department of Architecture, University of Roma Tre. Her research interests focus on the History of early modern architecture and lie at the intersection of the material analysis of the heritage, the study of the dynamics of patronage, and the interpretation of the phenomena of cultural mobility and collecting. Frequent topics include the relationship between architecture and literary culture; architectural treatises and drawings; the reception of antiquity in the sixteenth century; and the fortunes of the Renaissance in the nineteenth century.
    Danila Jacazzi

    Danila Jacazzi

    Senior Team Member
    Danila Jacazzi is a full professor of Architectural History at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design at the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli". Jacazzi is an art historian with profound expertise in early modern Campania territory, art and architecture. She has extensively published on the Terra di Lavoro area, Luigi Vanvitelli, Pompeii, and the architectural connections of the Regno di Napoli with the Mediterranean basin and with Central America.
    Milena Viceconte

    Milena Viceconte

    Post-Doc Team Member
    Milena Viceconte obtained her PhD in History of Art in 2013, a joint degree between the University of Naples Federico II and the University of Barcelona. She took part in several research groups focusing on artistic circulation between Italy and Spain in the early modern period. From 2018 to 2023 she has been a postdoctoral fellow for the ERC project DisComPoSE (Disasters, Communication and Politics in Southwestern Europe), dealing with issues related to the disaster imagery in the territories of the Spanish Monarchy through the analysis of the figurative sources (16th-18th centuries). Among her recent publications, the volume Heroes in Dark Times. Saints and Officials Tackling Disaster (16th-17th Centuries), co-curated with Gennaro Schiano and Domenico Cecere (Viella, 2023).
    Giorgia Aureli

    Giorgia Aureli

    Post-Doc Team Member
    Giorgia Aureli is an architect and PhD in Architectural history (Sapienza University of Rome). She was a lecturer at Sapienza and held a research fellowship at Roma Tre University, where she currently collaborates on teaching activities. Her research interests focus on architecture and urban and landscape contexts from the early modern period to the contemporary era, with a special consideration of the Urbino and Roman areas. For the early modern period, her study topics, as evidenced by her participation in conferences and publications, include direct analysis of architectural characteristics, the study of commissions and transformative construction events, investigation into the masters and artists, and analysis of continuity with antiquity, also referencing architectural treatises.
    Francesco Masucci

    Francesco Masucci

    Pre-Doc Team Member
    Francesco Masucci is a full stack developer, who graduated in Computer Science from the University of Salerno. Over the years he has worked with different technologies (from computer programming, to digital production, to artificial intelligence) and has collaborated in the implementation of applications for a wide range of customers. He specialized in database and information system design and completed his skills in front-end and back-end web development. He participated in the research projects FuturePL (Proxima Informatica), Icone @ Home (Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome), vAssist (University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli").
  • Candida Carrino

    Candida Carrino

    Director of the Archivio di Stato di Napoli
    Kathleen Christian

    Kathleen Christian

    Director of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Bianca de Divitiis

    Bianca de Divitiis

    Full professor of Art History at the Università di Napoli Federico II
    Tanja Michalsky

    Tanja Michalsky

    Director of the Department Michalsky - Cities and Space in Premodernity
    Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History
    Massimo Osanna

    Massimo Osanna

    Delegated General Director of the Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli
    Francesco Sirano

    Francesco Sirano

    Director of the Parco Archeologico di Ercolano