Dr. Cristina Ruggero
Vita
Cristina Ruggero has completed her studies in Art history, German literature and Byzantine art at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg im Breisgau. She graduated in Art history with a PhD on Roman baroque funerary monuments. Her research and publications deal with European networking and collecting in the 17th and 18th centuries, particularly between Italy and Germany, the reception of antiquities in drawings and prints, as well as with early photographic documentation. She counts several publications on Filippo Juvarra’s (1678–1736) capricci and architectural drawings based on the study of Roman antiquities. She is experienced in organizing conferences, curating, and publishing collective volumes and proceedings as well as translating scholarly publications. She has collaborated as research assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, was department coordinator of the Ludwigs-Maximilian University in Munich, and primary investigator in a DFG-funded project on the reception of Hadrian’s villa in the 17th and 18th centuries. She was awarded with the Hanno-und Ilse Hahn Prize, was a fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, New York, and visiting professor at the University La Sapienza in Rome. At present, she is member of the research staff of the digital project Antiquitatum Thesaurus at the BBAW (Ruggero, Cristina - bbaw.de).
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