Lorenzo Pericolo

Lorenzo Pericolo serves as the Vincent V. and Agatha Thursby Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at Florida State University, Tallahassee, with research appointments at Humboldt Universität (Berlin), the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (Washington DC), the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles), and the Centro de Estudios del Prado (Madrid).

His education includes a BA from Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; MA and PhD degrees from Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, and École des Hautes Études en Sciences historique et Philologique, Paris.

Specializing in Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, Pericolo investigates the body as an oxymoron in baroque aesthetics (flatness-relief, horror-pleasure), Galenic humor theory in art, Carracci academy reforms, and paradoxical representations of blackness in early modern sculptures. His scholarship examines narrative dislocation in Caravaggio, Leibnizian baroque concepts, and intersections of medical theory with visual culture.

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