Giorgio Tagliaferro (PhD, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice) is Reader in History of Art at the University of Warwick, where he is currently Head of the History of Art Department. A former scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute (2012), the recipient of a British Academy Small Grant (2015-16) and of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2016-17), he specialises in Renaissance and early modern European art, with a focus on Venice.
He has published widely on artists such as Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese, and on various other subjects, including: the self-representation of the Venetian Republic; painting and its viewers; religious visual culture; painters’ workshops and creative processes. He is the main author of Le botteghe di Tiziano (2009), a seminal book on Titian and his collaborators. Most recently, he co-edited the volume Tintoretto: Identity, Practice and Meaning (2022) and published articles in the Getty Research Journal (2020) and Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana (2024).
Email: G.Tagliaferro@warwick.ac.uk