PORZIO GIUSEPPE

Giuseppe Porzio (1976) is Associate Professor of History of Modern Art (L-ART/02) at the University of Naples L’Orientale and since 2024 he is coordinator of the Master’s Degree Course in Humanities and Digital Technologies (LM-43R); he is also a member of the Board of the PhD in History of Art of Sapienza Università di Roma and of the Scientific Teaching Council of the Interuniversity Consortium ICoN - Italian Culture on the Net.
In 2011 he was invited to the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) as part of the “Répertoire des tableaux italiens dans les collections publiques françaises (RETIF)” programme. He is currently a member of the scientific committee of various cultural institutions in southern Italy, including the Royal Palace of Naples and, in the same city, the Pio Monte della Misericordia. He is a member of the scientific committee of the art history series “Custodi della memoria” of the Department of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Naples L’Orientale, and also of the editorial board of the Annals of the Foundation “Giuseppe and Margaret De Vito for the history of modern art in Naples”. His scientific interests are mainly focused on painting between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries in central-southern Italy, with particular regard to naturalistic currents and foreign presences. Among his main works are the monographs “La scuola di Ribera” (Naples 2014) and Carlo Sellitto (Naples 2019), as well as the edition of Fritz Saxl’s writings on Aniello Falcone (Naples 2021). As part of his research, he has also curated several exhibitions, including “Intorno alla ‘Santa Caterina’ by Giovanni Ricca. Ribera and his circle in Naples, c. 1620-1650” (Naples, Gallerie d’Italia, Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, 2016) and “Artemisia Gentileschi in Naples” (with Antonio Ernesto Denunzio; Naples, Gallerie d’Italia, 2022-2023).