FACCHIN LAURA

Art historian, she began teaching at the University of Insubria in Varese and Como in the academic year 2005/2006. She graduated in Modern Literature in Turin, specialized in Milan, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, and obtained her PhD from the University of Verona.
She deals with collecting and artistic relations from the 17th to the 19th century, a field in which she has published, among others, studies on the patronage of the House of Savoy and the Habsburg-Este dynasty (note the monograph on the Duke of Modena Francesco III d'Este, governor of Milan and lord of Varese), as well as several essays on the painter Angelica Kauffmann and contributions relating to the visual arts in the Napoleonic and Restoration eras. In this latest area of research, she recently investigated the relationship between Antonio Canova and the cultural environment of Piedmont, first Savoyard and then Napoleonic.
Since 2009, she has been studying the artistic history of the Congregation of the Oratory of San Filippo Neri in northern Italy, with in-depth insights into the houses of Turin, Mondovì, Brescia, Verona, and Padua.
For over twenty years, she has studied the Italian and European activities of artists from the Lombardy-Ticino lake valleys, participating in interdisciplinary projects for cross-border cooperation between Italy and Switzerland, collaborating on scientific publications, and as a speaker at international conferences. In October 2014 she held the seminar “Lake Artists' works: Italian interior decoration from late Mannerism to early Rococo”, at the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Dublin.
She has several decades of experience in organizing exhibitions in Piedmont and Lombardy, including working on initiatives for the Centro di Ricerca sulla Storia dell’Art Contemporanea (CRiSAC) of the Inusbria University. Among the non-university exhibition events in which he collaborated we can mention: “Il Tesoro della Sindone” ("The Treasure of the Shroud”, Turin, Palazzo Reale, 2010) with the re-edition “Tesori preziosi e luoghi sacri al tempo di Guarini, Juvarra e Alfieri” (“Precious Treasures and Sacred Places in the Time of Guarini, Juvarra and Alfieri”, 2015). In 2014 he conceived and curated the exhibition “Giardini d’Autore. I progetti di Leopold Pollack per Faustina Mazzetti a Riva presso Chieri” (on Leopold Pollack's designs for countess Faustina Mazzetti in Riva near Chieri, Turin). In 2015 she was curator of the exhibition “Mazzonis e gli altri. Le opere del Maestro e i tesori della sua collezione” (“Mazzonis and the Others. The Master's works and the treasures of his collection”) at the Accorsi-Ometto Foundation Museum in Turin and, for the same location, co-curated the exhibition “Venezia nel Settecento. Una città cosmopolita e il suo mito” ("Venice in the Eighteenth Century. A cosmopolitan city and its myth”) in 2023. In Lodi, at the BPL headquarters, she co-curated the exhibition “Napoleone Bonaparte e Lodi «A Lodi scoccò la prima scintilla della più alta ambizione»” (“Napoleon Bonaparte and Lodi «In Lodi the first spark of the highest ambition struck»”, 2021) and at the Maria Hadfield Cosway Foundation the exhibition dedicated to the Anglo-Florentine artist and philanthropist (2023).
She is working on the creation of an exhibition for the bicentenary of the painter Andrea Gastaldi (1826-1889) at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Turin.