Anna Magnago Lampugnani

Dr. Anna Magnago Lampugnani is a Scientific Assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, working under Prof. Dr. Tanja Michalsky since April 2023. She specializes in Art Theory, frame and ornament phenomena, and transcultural artistic exchanges between Spain and Southern Italy during the Early Modern Period. Her research focuses on aristocratic tombs in Naples under Spanish Viceroyalty, exploring their role in constructing cultural identities and memory.

• Education: Studied Art History and Literature in Constance, Rome, and Berlin; earned her PhD at Humboldt-Universität Berlin (2018) with a dissertation on 'Furor' and artistic inspiration in Early Modern Art.
• Awards: Recipient of the Hans-Janssen Prize (2020) for her monograph 'Furor. Vorstellungen künstlerischer Eingebung in der Kunst der Frühen Neuzeit' (Hirmer).
• Academic Roles: Former Lecturer in Early Modern Art History at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf; held a Junior Fellowship at the Kolleg-Forschergruppe BildEvidenz in Berlin.

Her work emphasizes transcultural dynamics in art history, challenging simplistic narratives of cultural hegemony. She contributes to the Transcultural Negotiations project, analyzing Neapolitan aristocratic tombs (1503–1550) as sites of identity formation.