Name: Giuseppina Raggi
Professional Category: Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH; Researcher
Thematic areas: Early-Modern History of Art, Architecture and Music
Position within IHA: SC Member | RG Member [Pre-Modern Visual and Material Cultures]
Contact: giuseppinaraggi@fcsh.unl.pt
CIÊNCIA ID: D51C-C652-27F7
ORCiD: 0000-0002-8524-2943
Biography
Giuseppina Raggi is Assistant Professor at Art History Department of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She held her PhD in Art History (2005) from the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and the University of Bologna (Italy), and she has specialised in quadratura painting and in the artistic and cultural exchanges between Italy, Portugal, and colonial Brazil during the 17th and 18th centuries.
In more recent years, her research has focused on artistic circulation within both the European and Atlantic spaces, bringing to the light new protagonists. On one hand, starting from the study of the projects for Lisbon by the architect and scenographer Filippo Juvarra, she has examined the role of women in architecture and in the promotion of Italian opera and theatre in 18th-century Portugal. On the other hand, starting from her work on the overlooked role of women, she has developed research projects on the patronage and protagonism of Africans and Afro-descendants in the construction of Portugal’s early-modern tangible and intangible heritage (16th–18th centuries). She is currently Principal Investigator of the project Making Portugal – Challenging the past: Patronage and agency of people of African birth or descent in early modern arts and architecture in Portugal during the Transatlantic Slave Trade (1486–1836) (2023.12349.PEX), at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra and the IHA – NOVA FCSH.
In 2021, she published the book O projeto de D. João V. Lisboa ocidental, Mafra e o urbanismo cenográfico de Filippo Juvarra and co-edited the volume Filippo Juvarra, Domenico Scarlatti e il ruolo delle donne nella promozione dell’opera in Portogallo as outcome of a research project funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2019–2020). Most recently, she contributed the chapter Artistic patronage and agency of Black people in early-modern Brazil: two ceiling paintings in Salvador and Olinda, in Stephen John Campbell and Stephanie Porras (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Global Renaissance. New York: Routledge, 2024, pp. 624–639.
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Giuseppina Raggi é professor auxiliar do Departamento de História da Arte da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Doutorada em História da Arte (2005) pelas Universidades de Lisboa (Portugal) e de Bolonha (Itália), especializou-se na pintura de quadratura e nos intercâmbios artísticos e culturais entre Itália, Portugal e o Brasil colonial (sécs. XVII e XVIII). Em seguida, dedicou-se à circulação artística no espaço europeu e no espaço atlântico, destacando novos protagonistas. Por um lado, a partir do estudo dos projetos para Lisboa do arquiteto-cenógrafo Filippo Juvarra, aprofundou o papel das mulheres na arquitetura e na promoção da ópera e do teatro em Portugal (séc. XVIII). Por outro lado, a partir do estudo sobre a invisibilização do protagonismo das mulheres, implementou projetos de pesquisa sobre o mecenato e o protagonismo artístico de Africanos e Afrodescendentes na construção do património material e imaterial de Portugal durante a época moderna (sécs. XVI-XVIII). Atualmente, é Investigador Responsável do projeto «Making Portugal – Challenging the past: Patronage and agency of people of African birth or descent in early modern arts and architecture in Portugal during the Transatlantic Slave Trade (1486-1836)» (2023.12349.PEX), sediado no Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra em coligação com o IHA-NOVA FCSH.
Em 2021 publicou o livro O projeto de D. João V. Lisboa ocidental, Mafra e o urbanismo cenográfico de Filippo Juvarra e coeditou o volume Filippo Juvarra, Domenico Scarlatti e il ruolo delle donne nella promozione dell’opera in Portogallo, como resultado de um projeto financiado pela Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (2019-2020). Recentemente, publicou o texto Artistic patronage and agency of Black people in early-modern Brazil: two ceiling paintings in Salvador and Olinda, in Stephen John Campbell, Stephanie Porras (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Global Renaissance. New York: Routledge 2024, 624-639.
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Abbreviations:
SC – Scientific Council; RG – Research Group