Antonella Fenech

Antonella Fenech Kroke is an art historian, researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and deputy director of Centre André Chastel / Sorbonne University (Paris). She has been a Fellow of the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici (2007-2008), and received grants ans scholarships from the École Française in Rome and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. In 2020 she is awardee of the Bourse Chastel (INHA/Académie de France à Rome) and in the 2021 (Spring) she will be fellow at Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University. 

Her research has focused on the political and cultural dimension of artistic and visual productions in Early Modern Italy (Giorgio Vasari. La fabrique de l’allégorie, Olschki, 2011; Histoire de Florence par la peinture, Citadelle et Mazenod, 2012; Frises peintes. Le décor des villas et palais au Cinquecento, Somgy/Académie de France, 2017, co-ed. A. Lemoine; Les façades peintes – XVe-XVIIe siècle, co-ed. J. Koering, forthcoming). 

Since 2018, she is co-directing with F. Alberti the research project Disturbing bodies. Images et imaginary in Early modern period.

Her current studies concern, firstly, visual representations of ludic practices in images as well as games, pastime and leisure, and the ways they shape social practices, spaces and bodies in Early modern Europe (among others papers, “Ludic Marginalities: The Other as Player in Early Modern Visual Culture“, Ludica 21-22, 2015/2016, 25-46; “Geste et désir dans les imaginaires du jeu (première modernité)“ in V. Boudier, G. Careri et E. Myara ed., L’invention du geste amoureux dans la peinture de la Renaissance, Peter Lang, 2020, 167-198). Secondly, she is working on a book  (Corps à contresens), which addresses the modalities, functions, semantics and expressions of the human body depicted upside-down in Modern European visual culture.

Links:
http://www.centrechastel.paris-sorbonne.fr/membres/antonella-fenech-kroke
https://italianacademy.columbia.edu/fellow/antonella-fenech-kroke
https://cnrs.academia.edu/AntonellaFENECHKROKE