Coppolaro, Marco

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MARCO COPPOLARO (Benevento, 1991) is an Art Historian Officer at the Italian Ministry of Culture, currently serving at the Regional Directorate of National Museums of Abruzzo. He completed his academic studies at the University of Naples “Federico II” and later at Sapienza University of Rome, where he earned a PhD in Art History with a dissertation titled Gli interventi di fine Seicento in San Silvestro in Capite (1680-1696): un cantiere romano nella confluenza tardobarocca. From 2017 to 2020, he was awarded a research fellowship by the Catholic University Centre (Italian Episcopal Conference) for a project exploring contemperazione delle esigenze di culto e di quelle di tutela e conservazione negli edifici sacri di interesse storico-artistico. In 2022, he completed a second-level Master’s degree in Cultural Heritage Management at the University of Siena.

Between 2022 and 2023, he contributed to scientific coordination and collaborative efforts at the Italy–ASEAN Foundation, within the framework of a project dedicated to UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the ASEAN countries (Association of Southeast Asian Nations). From 2024 to 2025, he held a research fellowship in Modern Art History at Sapienza University of Rome, as part of the PRIN project in the Nordic Countries. Images of Ancient and Modern Architecture (17th–19th Century) . He maintains a broad network of institutional collaborations, including with the Vatican Museums, the American Academy in Rome, the Pontifical Gregorian University, and the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome. In 2022, he founded the monographic series Ecclesiae Urbis, dedicated to the churches of Rome, which he coordinates under the scholarly direction of Mario Bevilacqua. He also serves as the editorial coordinator, alongside Giulia Daniele, for the series Inchiostri di Storia dell’Arte e dell’Architettura. Since 2023, he has overseen the biennial Erminia Bretschneider Prize for Art and Architectural History.

Additionally, he is a scientific collaborator at the Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l’Immagine di Roma, founded by Giulio Carlo Argan and currently chaired by Marcello Fagiolo. He also serves on the editorial board of the scholarly journal Studi sul Settecento Romano, founded by Elisa Debenedetti. His research primarily focuses on Roman artistic production between the 17th and 18th centuries, with particular attention to religious patronage and iconography—topics on which he has published extensively and presented at numerous academic conferences