Walter Cupperi is associate professor in the history and theory of objects, the history of art techniques, the history of collecting and museology.
He holds a Ph.D. in art history from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and was research fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut Rom (2007), the Ministère de la Communauté Française of Belgium (2003), the Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York (2009), the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich (2009-13) and the Museo Nacional del Prado (2016-17).
His research addresses issues of historiography and material culture from a postnational perspective. He is the author of the book Culture di scambio: medaglie e medaglisti italiani tra Milano, Bruxelles e Madrid (1535-1571), Pisa 2020, the editor of Multiples in Pre-Modern Art, Berlin-Zurich 2014, and the co-editor of Beyond “Art Collections”: Owning and Accumulating Objects from Greek Antiquity to the Early Modern Period, Berlin-Munich 2020.
Email: walter.cupperi@unive.it