CONFERENZA DI TOM HENRY SU LUCA SIGNORELLI

CITTÀ DI CASTELLO – In occasione del 500° anniversario della morte di Luca Signorelli, il Rotary Club Città di Castello, con il patrocinio del Comune di Città di Castello ed in collaborazione della Diocesi tifernate, organizza per venerdì 12 maggio una conferenza del prof. Tom Henry, docente di Storia dell’Arte all’Università del Kent e massimo esperto mondiale del grande pittore.

La conferenza, dal titolo “Luca Signorelli – Famosissum pictor in tota Italia”, si terrà alle ore 18 nel Salone Gotico del Museo del Duomo.

L’evento è incluso nel calendario di appuntamenti che il Comune di Città di Castello ha organizzato per celebrare il cinquecentenario della morte del grande Maestro.

Il Rotary Club ringrazia il Comune di Città di Castello ed il Museo Diocesano per la collaborazione

A seguire curriculum vitae del prof. Tom Henry.

Formerly Professor of History of Art at the University of Kent and now Emeritus Professor. He was Director of the University’s School of Classical and Renaissance Studies in Rome, and is a world-renowned curator and expert on Raphael, Signorelli and renaissance art in central Italy, with extensive experience of institutional management and of working in Italy, including as the owner of a small business in Umbria.

EMPLOYMENT

Jan 2013-Sept 2020        Professor of History of Art, University of Kent; Director, Rome School of Classical and Renaissance Studies; Director, Italian Renaissance Documents Site (http://irds-project.org).

Sept 2006- Jan 2013       Independent art historian, London and Central Italy.

Jan 2005-Sept 2006        Reader in the History of Italian Renaissance Art, Oxford Brookes University.

Sept 2000-Jan 2005        Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the History of Art, Oxford Brookes University.

Oct 1997-Sept 2000       British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Courtauld Institute of Art.

Oct 1996-Sept 1997       One year, 0.5 FTE, replacement teaching contract at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Sept 1991-Feb 1993       National Gallery, London (Co-author, The National Gallery Complete Illustrated Catalogue, published 1995).

Jan-Sept 1991                Assistant to Sir Denis Mahon in preparation for the Guercino exhibitions in London, Bologna, Frankfurt and Washington.

Aug 1989-Jan 1991        National Gallery, London (Art Historian to the Micro Gallery).

EDUCATION

Oct ‘92-July ’96   Courtauld Institute, London; Ph.D. ‘The Career of Luca Signorelli in the 1490s’.

Oct ‘87-July ‘89    Courtauld Institute, London; M.A. History of Art (Distinction in parts I and II).

Oct ‘86-June ‘87   École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Oct ‘83-June ’86   Balliol College, Oxford; B.A. Modern History (First Class Honours).

1971-1982            Colet Court and St Paul’s School, London.

UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATION

BA, MA and PhD teaching/supervision at the Universities of London (Courtauld), Oxford Brookes and Kent, as well as occasional courses for Università degli Studi, Perugia, American University, John Cabot and elsewhere. External examining for the Courtauld, Warburg, Università degli Studi, Firenze and elsewhere. Various University administrative roles including: Field Chair of the History of Art undergraduate programmes, departmental research coordinator 2004-6, MA admissions and Director, University of Kent Rome School of Classical and Renaissance Studies 2014-20.

MAJOR FELLOWSHIPS

Ahmanson Foundation Fellow, Villa I Tatti, Florence (July 2002-June 2003).

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Courtauld Institute of Art (Oct 1997-Sept 2000).

PRINCIPAL CURATORSHIPS

Curator, Signorelli 500, Cortona (MAEC), 2023.

Co-Curator, Raphael, National Gallery, London (Apr-July 2022).

Co-Curator, Perugino, Paris (Jacquemart-André), 2014.

Co-Curator, El Último Rafael / Raphaël, les dernières années, Madrid (Prado) and Paris (Louvre), 2012-13.

Co-Curator, Luca Signorelli, Perugia (Galleria Nazionale) and Umbria, June-Sept 2012.

Co-Curator, Pintoricchio, Perugia (Galleria Nazionale) and Spello, Dec 2007-June 2008.

Co-Curator, Gli esordi di Raffaello tra Urbino, Città di Castello e Perugia, Città di Castello (March-June 2006).

Co-Curator, Raphael: from Urbino to Rome, National Gallery, London (Oct 2004-Jan 2005).

Curator, Signorelli in British Collections, National Gallery, London (Nov 1998-Feb 1999).

PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS (by date, in descending order)

Forthcoming

Sole-authored entries in C. Plazzotta and T. Henry, National Gallery Catalogues. The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings: volume IV, Raphael, London 2022 (online edition)

‘Raffaello, caffè e cioccolato’, in ed. R. Cioffi, R. Lattuada e A. Zezza, Atti del Convegno Internazionale Raffaello 1520-2020, Napoli 1-3.7.2021

‘ciò che haveva dell’arte, l’aveva da me’ – Raphael’s artistic strategy in Florence’, in ed. B. Jatta and G. Cornini, Atti del Convegno Raffaello in Vaticano, 27-29.9.2021

‘Signorelli e Michelangelo’ Atti del Convegno Internazionale: Luca Signorelli e Roma. Oblio e riscoperte, Rome, 2022.

2022

Raphael, National Gallery, London, exh. cat., 2022 (co-editor of the volume and co-author of the lead essay with D. Ekserdjian, plus 45 sole-authored catalogue entries).

2021

‘Fatalmente per le Belli Arte e Monumenti di questa Città’ in ed. M. Mercalli and L. Teza, Raffaello giovane a Città di Castello e il suo sguardo, (exh. cat., Città di Castello, Pinacoteca, 30 October 2021-9 January 2022), Milan, 2021, pp. 93-101.

‘What does a replica by Raphael look like?’ in ed. F. Biferali and V. Punzi, La Madonna di Loreto di Raffaello, exh. cat., Museo Pontificio Santa Casa di Loreto, 2021, pp. 21-25.

2019

‘Raphael’s Siege of Perugia in context’, in ed. M. Faietti & A. Gnann, Raffael als Zeichner / Raffaello disegnatore, Florence, 2019, pp. 244-255.

2016

‘Signorelli e Raffaello’ in ed. C. Cecchetti & A. Iori, Burri e Signorelli. Centenario della nascita di Alberto Burri 1915-2015, Città di Castello, 2016, pp. 33-38. ISBN 978-88-940639-5-0.

IRDS (Italian Renaissance Documents Site – http://irds-project.org) Documents for Perugino, Signorelli, Melozzo da Forli, Raphael and front material.

2013

‘Luca Signorelli a Città di Castello’ in ed. G. Sterparelli, Luca Signorelli a Città di Castello. La vita, l’opera e la scuola in alta valle del Tevere, Città di Castello, 2013, pp. 12-66.

2012

The Life and Art of Luca Signorelli, New Haven & London, 2012 (YUP, ISBN: 978-0-300-17926-2).

‘Plusieurs artistes, une seule main’, Dossier de l’Art, 200 (October 2012), pp. 40-51.

Late Raphael / El Último Rafael / Raphaël, les dernières années. Exhibition catalogue (co-authored with P. Joannides) in English, Spanish and French. Museo del Prado and Musée du Louvre, 2012.

‘“Gli gettò addosso il suo mantello”’ and ‘La casa di Luca Signorelli’, in ed. F. De Chirico, V. Garibaldi, T. Henry and F.F. Mancini, Luca Signorelli, exh. cat., Perugia (Galleria Nazionale), Orvieto (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo) and Città di Castello (Pinacoteca), 2012, pp. 143-151 (and cats. 8, 24, 26-29, 39, 53, 86 and 95-97).