FACCHIN LAURA

Laura Facchin is associate professor of Modern Art History at the University of Insubria (Varese-Como), where she is president of the Communication Sciences degree course and scientific director of the International Research Center for Local Histories and Cultural Diversities. She specializes in collecting and artistic relations between Italian and European states from the 17th to the 19th century, a field in which she has published, among numerous contributions, the volume Francesco III d’Este “Serenissimo Signore” tra Modena, Milano e Varese (2017), various essays on the painter Angelica Kauffmann, and several works on the Savoy residences and ducal and later royal patronage. For approximately twenty years, she has studied the Italian and European activity of artists from the Lombardy-Ticino lake valleys, participating in interdisciplinary cross-border cooperation projects between Italy and Switzerland. She has curated several exhibitions in Piedmont and Lombardy.