Piergicomo Petrioli, Ph.D.

Piergiacomo Petrioli, PhD, is an art historian residing in Bologna. His fields of interest include Renaissance Art, History of Restauration and Art criticism, Italian Women Artists, Food and Culture. He has published several articles and books, and recently, with Alden Smith (Baylor University), “The Eloquent Artist”, about Ancient Rhetoric and Italian Prot Renaissance Art. Petrioli has taught History of Art Criticism at the University of Florence, and Art History for many American Universities programs abroad in Italy, such as New York University/Florence, and Dartmouth College/Siena, Boston University in Padua and Venice, University of Oregon/Siena, Brown in Bologna. He is also collaborating with the Japanese Art Magazine Bun-Ten and, as a member of SlowFood in Bologna, lecturing on Art and History of Food. His awards include two scholarships from the Armstrong Browning Library of Baylor University and a fellowship from the Roberto Longhi Foundation of Art History in Florence.