Fernando Loffredo

Assistant Professor

Humanities Building,room# 1145:
Fernando.Loffredo@stonybrook.edu

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Fernando Loffredo is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Mediterranean and Colonial Visual
Culture and Principal Investigator of the Max-Planck Partner Group Grant 2022-2027
"Empires, Environments, Objects" in collaboration with the Pontificia Universidad Católica
del Perú, Lima, and the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence. His primary research interests
are trans-Mediterranean artistic relations, sculpture and the urban space, and the dialogues
between art and poetry in the early modern world, with a particular focus on the global
Spanish Empire. His first book project entitled “A Sea of Marble: Traveling Fountains in the
Early Modern Mediterranean,” explores the notion of early modern transcultural identity by
studying the mobility of sculpture throughout the Mediterranean and beyond. He is one of the
authors of the catalogue Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art (New York: 2022), and co-editor of Pirro Ligorio’s Worlds. Antiquarianism,
Classical Erudition and the Visual Arts in the Late Renaissance, with Ginette Vagenheim
(Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, Leiden/Boston: 2019). Besides his academic activity, he
has collaborated with different museums such as the Met, the Louvre, the Museo del
Bargello, the Museo di Capodimonte, and the North Carolina Museum of Art. 
Before coming to Stony Brook as assistant professor, he was a visiting professor in 2014-
2015, then the Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow (2015-2017) at the Center for
Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC), and assistant
professor at the University of Colorado Boulder (2019-2020). Furthermore, he has taught
Mediterranean and Colonial Latin American visual culture at Johns Hopkins University, NYU,
The Cooper Union, and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
In 2020-2021, Professor Loffredo was the recipient of I Tatti/Museo Nacional del Prado
Inaugural Fellowship, and previousely received fellowships from Deutsche Forum für
Kunstgeschichte - Max Weber Stiftung (Paris), the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck
Institute for Art History (Rome), the European Research Council (ERC), the
Kunsthistorisches Institut (Florence), among others. 
In the spring 2025, he will be on leave with an Alexander von Humboldt Experienced
Research Fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich.

Courses Taught at Stony Brook University:
HUS 201. The Hispanic World through Visual Cultures
SPN 312. The Word and the City
SPN 388. Spanish Modernity
SPN 405. Traveling Objects
SPN 415. Art and Culture of Spain and Colonial Latin America”
SPN 405/SPN 532. Radical Goya
SPN 523. Spain and Mediterranean Art
SPN 645. Trans-Mediterranean Visual Culture and the Spanish Empire
ARH 310/HUI 310. Splendors of Renaissance Art in Venice
ARH 307/HUI 307. The Age of Michelangelo in Central Italy

Prof. Loffredo and his students of SPN 405 at The Metroplitan Museum of Art in New York City.