Chiara Guerzi

Chiara Guerzi serves as Professor of Art History at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, teaching across multiple degree programs including Graphic Art, Painting, Decoration – Art and Environment, and Restoration – Library and Archival Material. She offers specialized courses in History of Drawing and Graphic Art, History of Modern Art (Late Gothic to Rococo), and History of Ancient Art, each carrying 6 CFA credits as basic curriculum components.

Her research focuses on historical graphic techniques with particular expertise in Cennino Cennini's Libro dell'Arte, pastel technique evolution, and printmaking methods including xylography, intaglio, lithography, and silkscreen. She specializes in Italian Renaissance art with emphasis on the Ferrara school, as evidenced by her course connections to the Palazzo dei Diamanti exhibition Renaissance in Ferrara. Ercole de' Roberti and Lorenzo Costa. Her teaching methodology combines PowerPoint presentations with historical-critical text analysis and case studies, particularly examining Albrecht Dürer's connection to Italian art.

Professor Guerzi maintains Wednesday office hours from 11:30-12:30 by appointment at the Library or G1 Via del Guasto, n. 7. Her academic background includes a PhD and three-year specialization in Historical and Artistic Heritage from the University of Udine, with scholarship experience at the Zeri Foundation in Bologna, Ermitage Italia Foundation in Ferrara (2011), and Institut National de l'Histoire de l'Art (INHA) in Paris. She has collaborated extensively with the Superintendency of Bologna, Cultural Heritage Office of the Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio, and various exhibition initiatives where she contributed essays and catalog entries.