Claudio Tongiorgi
Allievo del Corso di Perfezionamento/PhD
History of Art
He graduated in Art History (BA 2020, MA 2023) at the University of Pisa. He was an undergraduate student in the Class of Humanities at the Scuola Normale Superiore (2017-2022), where he has been a PhD student in Art History since 2023 (supervisor: Flavio Fergonzi).
His PhD project is devoted to the revival of ancient – and especially Greco-Roman – subjects in post-unification Italian painting, with particular attention to the visual horizon and representational strategies of the regional schools, thus to the function of the reference to Antiquity within the debate on ‘national style’. The subject is examined in its comparison with the various national traditions and in its intersecting relations with the literary and philosophical culture of the time.
His main research interests are nineteenth-century Italian painting and sculpture and their perception in the international arena (primarly in the French context); the European figurative and historical-revivalist proposal in the second half of the nineteenth century; the reception of classical antiquity and archaeological finds in modern and early contemporary art history.