Bianca de Divitiis is Full Professor in History of Modern Art at the University of Naples Federico II. After receiving several research grants from national (IUAV) and international institutions (The Warburg Institute, Villa I Tatti-Harvard University, The Paul Mellon Centre), she was PI of the ERC project Historical Memory, Antiquarian Culture, Artistic Patronage in Renaissance Southern Italy (2011-2016) and of PRIN project Renaissance in Southern Italy and the Islands: Culutural Heritage and Technology (2018–2023). She has participated in several international projects, as The Quest of the Appropriate Past of KNAW, and Spanish Italy and Iberian Americas of the Columbia University - Getty Connected Art Histories. She is member of the scientific board of the Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florence, the Palladio Museum, the Center for the Art History of Port Cities La Capraia, the Pio Monte della Misericordia and the Museum of the Royal Palace in Naples. She is currently Deputy Director of the Department of Humanistic Studies and delegate member of the Research Commission of the University of Naples. She has published articles in international journals and a book on the patronage of the Carafa family in fifteenth century Naples (Marsilio 2007); among several volumes, she edited The Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy (Brill 2023) and is currently completing a monograph entitled The Renaissance and the Kingdom.
