Barbara Aniello is an art historian, curator, musicologist, and musician. Alongside her degree in cello from the Conservatory of L’Aquila, she graduated cum laude in Contemporary Art History at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome, with a thesis on Erik Satie and the painters of his circle, published in 2001. While maintaining an intense musical activity in orchestras and chamber ensembles, she earned a PhD in Artistic and Musical Heritage Studies at the University of Padua, with a thesis on Aleksandr Scriabin and the dialogue between music, sculpture, and painting, which received the distinction Excellent and the recognition Doctor Europaeus. Between 2007 and 2010, she was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship for the project O diálogo inter-artes em Portugal no século XX (literature, music, and painting), and from 2010 to 2013 she won a second Postdoc on O diálogo inter-artes em Portugal no século XX (music and painting), both funded by the Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia and hosted by the University of Lisbon, the Catholic University of Lisbon, and the Nova University of Lisbon. In 2009, her book A Casa da rua de Alcolena won 1st prize from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Fine Arts Service of Lisbon. Since 2014, she has been associate adjunct professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where she teaches Christian and musical iconography. In 2022, she founded Spazio Inter Artes, a Cultural Association and Creative Hub located in the disadvantaged neighborhood of Via Mazzini in Viterbo, organizing 150 events over two years. In 2023, she launched Sonus, the first multimedia journal of Musical Iconography, narrating the stories of musical angels from Italy’s major museums and galleries. She has curated 15 national and international exhibitions, including Beethoven e os seus amigos at the Belém Cultural Center in Lisbon in 2007, which welcomed 3,500 visitors. She is frequently invited to speak at international symposia in Italy, Europe, Brazil, and the United States. Her work has been published in national and international journals and exhibition catalogs, focusing on synesthesia and, specifically, the correspondence between sound and color, music and image, poetry and painting. She has given over 400 lectures and authored 150 publications on the dialogue between the arts, synesthesia, iconography, and comparative aesthetics.
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