Dr. Fernando Loffredo

Fernando Loffredo is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Mediterranean and Colonial Visual Culture in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Principal Investigator of the Max-Planck Partner Group 2022-2027 "Empires, Environments, Objects" in collaboration with the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. His primary research interests are trans-Mediterranean artistic relations, sculpture and the urban space, and the dialogues between art and poetry in the early modern world, with a particular focus on the territories under Spanish rule across the globe. He was Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow 2015-2017 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC), and I Tatti/Museo Nacional del Prado Inaugural Fellow 2020-2021.

List of selected publications:

Books

- Loffredo, F. (co-author of) (2022): Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, edited by Denise Allen, Linda Borsch, James David Draper, Jeffrey Fraiman, and Richard E. Stone, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

- Loffredo, F., Vagenheim, G. (2019): Pirro Ligorio's Worlds. Antiquarianism, Classical Erudition and the Visual Arts in the Late Renaissance. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History n. 293. Leiden/Boston

Journal Articles

1. Loffredo, F. (2022): "A Captive History of Sculpture: Abducting Italian Fountains in the Early Modern Spanish Mediterranean," in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LXXXV, Chicago University Press, pp. 165-212.

2. Loffredo, F. (2022): "Soldani's Lamentation in Córdoba," The Burlington Magazine, 2022, November, pp. 1118-1122.

3. Loffredo, F. (2022): "New light on the colossal statues on the façade of Saint Peter's, Rome," The Burlington Magazine, CLXIV, 2022, January, pp. 22-33

4. Loffredo, F. (2021): "Memorias de Algardi en un Busto de Apolo del Museo del Prado" [A Bust of Apollo in the Museo del Prado Reminiscent of Algardi's Clay Creations], Boletín del Museo del Prado, 87-91.

5. Loffredo, F. (2021): "Viento y Fortuna en la representación de la «France Antarctique»" [Wind and fortune in the representation of the «France Antarctique»], Nuevas de Indias: Anuario del Centro de Estudios de la América Colonial, VI, pp. 54-91.

Book Chapters

1. Loffredo, F. (2022): "Murillo's Ruins," in Guillaume Kientz (ed.), Murillo: From Heaven to Earth, New Haven, Yale University Press/Kimbell Art Museum, pp. 46-63.

2. Loffredo, F. (2022): "Cosimo I and His Spanish In-Laws: the Duke and the Toledo Family" in Alessio Assonitis and Henk van Veen (eds.), A Companion to Cosimo I de' Medici, Leiden-Boston, The Renaissance Society of America Vol. 17 – Brill, pp. 72-114.

3. Loffredo, F. (2020): "Circulation of Sculpture Across the Spanish Empire: The Case of Martino Regio's Genoese Workshop and the Multiple Variations of His Name," in Artistic Circulation between Early Modern Spain and Italy, edited by Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio and Tommaso Mozzati, New York/London, Routledge "Visual Culture in Early Moderniny" Series, pp. 109-130.