Fernando Loffredo

Fernando Loffredo is an Assistant Professor of Early Modern Mediterranean and Colonial Visual Culture at Stony Brook University. He leads the Max-Planck Partner Group Grant 2022-2027 “Empires, Environments, Objects” in collaboration with the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence. His research focuses on trans-Mediterranean artistic relations, sculpture in urban spaces, and interactions between art and poetry in the early modern global Spanish Empire.

He has held fellowships including the I Tatti/Museo Nacional del Prado Inaugural Fellowship (2020-2021), Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2015-2017), and Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Research Fellowship (2025). He has collaborated with institutions like the Met, Louvre, and Museo del Bargello. Courses taught include Trans-Mediterranean Visual Culture and the Spanish Empire and Art and Culture of Spain and Colonial Latin America.

• Previous Positions: Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University (2014-2015), Mellon Fellow at the National Gallery of Art (2015-2017), and Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder (2019-2020).
• Grants: Max-Planck Partner Group Grant, ERC-funded projects.

His research explores transcultural identity through sculpture mobility and Spanish Empire aesthetics, exemplified in his book project A Sea of Marble: Traveling Fountains in the Early Modern Mediterranean.