SebastianSchuetze

Professor Sebastian Schütze has held the chair in Early Modern Art History at the University of Vienna since 2009. He is a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a member of the academic advisory board of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples. His key research areas include: Italian art in the early modern period and its impact in Europe; art and art patronage in papal Rome; Naples as a center of art; Spanish art of the Siglo de Oro; the social history of the artist; the history of collecting and the art market; interrelations between art and literature from Dante, Petrarch, Tasso and Marino to Nietzsche, George, Rilke and Hofmannsthal. In addition to monographic publications on the art patronage of Urban VIII, on Caravaggio, Massimo Stanzione and William Blake, he has curated major international exhibitions.