Born 1954 in Milan, Alessandro Nova studied “Lettere e Filosofia” at the Università degli Studi di Milano and Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. In 1982, he earned his PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. His research was financed in 1986-1987 by the J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, and in 1992-94 by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. From 1988 to 1994 he was an Assistant Professor at Stanford University (California, USA). In the summer semester he held the position of a C4-Professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1994, he was appointed professor of Art History of the Renaissance at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main. In the Wintersemester of 2001-2002 he was a Guest Lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – CEHTA (Centre d’histoire et théorie des arts) in Paris. From 2006 to 2007 he served as the managing director of the research center on the Early Modern Period at Frankfurt University (Zentrum zur Erforschung der Frühen Neuzeit, Renaissance Institut). In July 2006, he was appointed Honorary Professor of the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main. In 2010 he was a visiting Researcher at the Humboldt-University of Berlin in the research project “Bildakt und Verkörperung”. Since October 2006, Alessandro Nova has served as Director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut.
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Ongoing
Kasper König (1943–2024)
Obituary, 9 August – 9 September 2024
Vera Palme: The And
Lecture, 9 July 2024, 19:00
Zasha Colah
Lecture, 2 July 2024, 19:00
The Call
Exhibition, 28 June – 21 July 2024
Dylan Solomon KRAUS: The Seventh Point on the Six Sided Die
Lecture, 11 June 2024, 19:00
Listening Session
Event, 3 June 2024, 17:00–20:00
Tarik Kiswanson
Lecture, 28 May 2024, 19:00
Guerilla Architects: WE ARE SORRY!
Lecture, 21 May 2024, 19:00
Pio Abad: To Those Sitting in Darkness
Lecture, 14 May 2024, 19:00
Sir Peter Cook: CONSIDERING THE PICTURESQUE
Lecture, 13 May 2024, 19:00
Débora Delmar: Property
Lecture, 7 May 2024, 19:00
JUNGE KUNST MIT ZUKUNFT
Event, 4 May 2024, 18:00
Elisa R. Linn: The Berlin Wall as a Condom
Lecture, 2 May 2024, 19:00
R.H. Quaytman: Book
Lecture, 30 April 2024, 19:00
Camille Norment: Cultural Psychoacoustics
Lecture, 23 April 2024, 19:00
Phillip Zaiser (1969–2024)
Obituary, 6 April – 6 May 2024
Application: Master of Arts Program in CURATORIAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES
Information, 25 March – 31 May 2024
Water Cooler Talks 2024
Event, 10 February 2024, 10:00–18:00
Rundgang 2024
Exhibition, 9 – 11 February 2024, 10:00–20:00
Nora Turato: Lecture
Lecture, 6 February 2024, 19:00
Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé: Unmasking Series–Towards Public Co-creation
Lecture, 30 January 2024, 19:00
Unextractable? Sammy Baloji and Bénédicte Savoy in Conversation
Lecture, 25 January 2024, 19:00
Manon de Boer: Three Films
Lecture & Screening, 22 – 23 January 2024, 19:00
Ann Demeester: The Museum as Transhistorical ‘Garden of Consciousness’?
Lecture, 16 January 2024, 19:00
Moritz Fehr: Evocation, Installation, Simulation
Lecture, 9 January 2024, 19:00
Alessandro Nova: The Portrait in the Art Theory of the 16th century
Lecture 1 July 2015, 19:00 Aula, Städelschule, Dürerstraße 10, 60596 Frankfurt am Main