Anguissola , Anna

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Anna Anguissola teaches Classical Archaeology at the University of Pisa, where she serves as Director of the Plaster Casts and Antiquities Collection and the School of Specialization in Archaeology. She has been a researcher at Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where she earned her Habilitation (qualification for university teaching).

She has conducted research as a fellow at several international institutions and foundations, including the Getty Research Institute, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of Basel, Corpus Christi College at Oxford, the American Academy in Rome, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society.

Her research on Greek and Roman material culture primarily focuses on domestic and funerary architecture, the history and techniques of sculpture, and literary sources related to the figural arts. She leads survey and excavation projects in Pompeii’s Regio II and at Hierapolis of Phrygia, Turkey, as part of the Italian Archaeological Mission. She also coordinates a project on maritime villas along the coast of Regio I, Latium et Campania, as part of a collaboration between the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the University of Pisa, and the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per the Metropolitan Area of Naples.

Her recent publications include monographs on Roman sculpture (Supports in Roman Marble Sculpture: Workshop Practice and Modes of Viewing, Cambridge University Press, 2018) and on the role of materials and artistic techniques in Pliny the Elder’s encyclopedia (Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory: An Encyclopaedic Workshop, Routledge, 2022).