Caterina PAPARELLO

After the collaboration with various institutions, also coordinating cataloging and ICT projects for the enhancement of the heritage in the museum and on the web, she carries out research activities on the historical events that led to the dispersion or musealisation of the heritage. In recent years, by mandate of the General Directorate of Museums of the Ministry of Culture, she helds the role of art historian in charge of the Regional Directorate of Museums of the Marche Region, coordinating the management and care of the collections and the restoration sites of the movable heritage of the Rocca demaniale di Gradara. He is currently an art historian commissioned by the Regional Directorate of Museums of the Marches for the studies of internal decorative painting of the institutes belonging to the directorate. A large part of the studies is dedicated to the protection of heritage during the Second World War, both in order to publish the lists of Pasquale Rotondi and Emilio Lavagnino, and regarding the results of the Marche Liberate project, concerning the acts and provisions of the Allied Military Government and the Sub Commission Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives, and participating in the curatorial staff of the exhibition Arte liberata. Capolavori salvati dalla guerra 1937/1947, (Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, 16 December 2022-10 April 2023). She has extended his interests to the musealization of heritage in the territories of the middle and lower Adriatic. Among them the research, partly underway, on the critical success of the Adriatic figurative culture, promoted starting from the examination of Pietro Zampetti's private archives. The recent monographic work on the history of the "Francesco Podesti" civic art gallery in Ancona (Le Voci del Museo, 42, Edifir) can be referred to in the same vein, which returns the reasons for the choices made and the value of protecting the territory. As for the progression of critical studies and the consequent recognition of the form of the museum, the most recent investigations started from the re-examination of the work of Lionello Venturi and Luigi Serra in the Marches. The dynamics referring to private collecting and the art market have been investigated several times in relation to the museum-territory-city relationship and, more broadly, to the museum and its communities, returning to unpublished studies elements regarding trusts, patronages and legacies, among which the Rocchi Camerata bequest of Napoleonic ancestry. Member of the scientific committee of the journal «Il capitale culturale. Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage» directed by Pietro Petraroia and from the series Studies and historical-artistic itineraries, coordinated by Patrizia Dragoni and Andrea Leonardi (Edifir. Florence). In the various positions she held, she has supervised bachelor's (L-15), master's (LM-89) and the School of Specialization in Artistic Historical Heritage.

Education:

PhD in Human Sciences, curriculum Psychology, Communication and Social Sciences, obtained at the University of Macerata on 3 April 2017, final judgment with honors. Doctoral thesis in Museology, artistic criticism and restoration, ssd L-ART/04, entitled The capital of memory. Museums and digital resources in the knowledge economy: producing content to generate value, coordinator prof. Michele Corsi.

Diploma of Specialist in Historical and Artistic Heritage obtained on 27 June 2013 at the University of Macerata with 70\70 cum laude. Specialization thesis in Museology, artistic criticism and restoration, ssd L-ART/04, entitled The memory of the suburbs: the local historical and artistic heritage between protection and dispersion. An archival research, supervisor Prof. Patrizia Dragoni.

Master's degree, old system, in History and Conservation of Cultural Heritage, obtained at the University of Macerata on 16 April 2009 with 110\110 cum laude, (equivalent to degree classes 95/S History of art and LM-89), degree thesis in history of modern art, ssd L-ART/02, entitled "Maestro Durante pictor de Caldarola". An artist in the Marche region of the 16th century, supervisor Prof. Francesca Coltrinari.

Previous academic positions:

RTDA at the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, University of Macerata.
Four-year research fellow at the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, University of Macerata.