Antonella Fenech

A researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Paris), and deputy director of the André Chastel Centre (cnrs, Sorbonne University, Ministry of Culture), Antonella Fenech was a fellow of the Italian Academy for advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, of the Academy of France and of the French School in Rome, and of the Max Planck Institute for Art History in Florence. Her works on Early Modern art in Italy consider artistic and visual productions in their political (Giorgio Vasari. La fabrique de l’allégorie, 2011; Histoire de Florence par la peinture, 2012) and cultural dimension (Frises peintes. Le décor des villas et palais au Cinquecento, 2017, with Annick Lemoine; Les façades peintes. XV^e -XVII^e  siècle, with Jérémie Koering, forthcoming). Recently, her work has been devoted to ludic practices in images and societies in the Early Modern period (several articles already published). She is writing her new book – Sottosopra. Corps à contre-sens dans les images entre Moyen Âge et Modernité – which deals with the modalities, functions, expressions, semantic and empathic dimensions of the human body depicted ‘upside down’, in the Western visual culture of Modernity.