Gianfranco Adornato

Gianfranco Adornato is currently Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy). He has chaired and organized many conferences, including “Scolpire il marmo: Importazioni, artisti itineranti, scuole artistiche nel Mediterraneo antico” (2009) in Pisa; “Artistic Practice in the Ancient World: Sketches, Models, and Pattern Books” (2012), at the Getty Villa in Malibu; “Out of Scale! Aesthetic, Technical, and Art Historical Perspective on Ancient Bronze Statuary” (2015) at Palazzo Strozzi, in Florence; “Cityscapes in Hellenistic Sicily: A Reassessment” (2017) in Berlin; “Colored Stone Statuary in the Ancient Mediterranean” (2017), in Pisa and Florence; “Tradition/Transition/Revolution in the Late Archaic Period: Contexts, Artists, Styles” (2018) in Pisa. He has been a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2012), and Visiting Palevsky Professor at UCLA (2018). He has lectured in Europe, the United States, and Japan. He is author of Akragas arcaica: Modelli culturali e linguaggi artistici di una città greca d’Occidente (Milan 2011) and co-editor of Restaging Greek Artworks in Roman Times (Milan 2018). He received an award from the National Research Fund and is currently working on a new commentary of the books of art of Pliny the Elder’s, Naturalis Historia.