Tancredi Maria BELLA
Tancredi BELLA since October 2020 is associate professor of Medieval Art History (Area 10/B1, s.s.d. L-Art/01) at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania.
From October 2017 to September 2020 he is a temporary researcher (tenure track) in History of Medieval Art at the same Department, where he also teaches History of Medieval and Modern Architecture. Since 2012 he is a member of the Center d’Études Supérieures de Civilization Médiévale (CÉSCM) of the University of Poitiers (France).
Teaching and Academic employment
since 02.10.2020 - Associate Professor in History of Medieval Art (L-ART/01 – 10/B1), University of Catania, Department of Humanities.
02.10.2017 – 01.10.2020 - Assistant Professor fixed-term RTD-B in the History of Medieval Art, University of Catania, Department of Humanities.
2017-2019 - Temporary Professor in the History of Medieval and Modern Architecture, University of Catania, Department of Humanities, Master's Degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage.
2016-2017 - Research Assistant in the History of Medieval Art, University of Catania, Department of Humanities.
2011-2015 - Research Assistant in the History of Medieval Art, University of Catania, Faculty of Literature and Philosophy.
since 2012 - Associated foreign researcher, Centre d’Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale di Poitiers – CESCM, Research Line: Axe 4. Territoires, monuments et technique – Programme A : Le monument religieux et son décor.
Education
25.11.2014 – 25.11.2020 - Italian National Scientific Qualification ASN 2013 of the MIUR for the role of Associate Professor, sector 10/B1 – History of Art.
29.01.2015 – 31.12.2019 - French qualification to “Maître de conférences” of the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research, Section 21 - History, Civilizations, Archeology and Art of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds.
2007-2008 - Research activity, during the PhD research grant, at: École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris; École Nationale des Chartes, Paris; Institut Nation d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris.
2006-2008 - University of Catania, Faculty of Architecture, Ph.D; Tutor: Prof. Giuseppe Pagnano. Foreign supervisor: Prof. Marie-Thérèse Camus (CESCM, Poitiers).
1999-2005 (October-July) - University of Catania, Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Bachelor's Degree in Modern Literature, Thesis in the History of Medieval Art. Tutor: Prof. Claudia Guastella. Vote: magna cum laude.
Fellowships
2010-2011 - Centre d’Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale, Poitiers. Tutor: Prof. Claude Andrault-Schmitt.
2009 - Centre d’Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale, Poitier. Tutor: Prof. Claude Andrault-Schmitt.
2006-2008 - Doctoral Fellowship, University of Catania, Faculty of Architecture.
Tancredi Bella worked on Lombard Romanesque art and Nineteenth-century historiography; he is currently studying Norman architecture and the historical-artistic emergencies of the medieval settlements of the Holy Land in eastern Sicily.
Academic Year 2021/2022
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Cultural Heritage - 1st Year
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ART - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage - 1st Year
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN ARCHITECTURE - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage - 1st Year
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ART - ADVANCED COURSE
Academic Year 2020/2021
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Cultural Heritage - 1st Year
HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage - 1st Year
DIDATTICA DELLA STORIA DELL'ARTE - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage - 1st Year
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN ARCHITECTURE - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Letters - 2nd Year
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ART
Academic Year 2019/2020
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Cultural Heritage - 1st Year
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ART - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage - 1st Year
DIDATTICA DELLA STORIA DELL'ARTE - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage - 1st Year
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN ARCHITECTURE
Academic Year 2018/2019
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage - 1st Year
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN ARCHITECTURE - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Letters - 2nd Year
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ART
Academic Year 2017/2018
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage - 1st Year
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN ARCHITECTURE
Academic Year 2016/2017
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage - 1st Year
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN ARCHITECTURE
Academic Year 2015/2016
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage - 1st Year
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN ARCHITECTURE
Research topics:
Tancredi Bella worked on Lombard Romanesque art and Nineteenth-century historiography; he is currently studying Norman architecture and the historical-artistic emergencies of the medieval settlements of the Holy Land in eastern Sicily.
Research projects:
2020-2021
University of Catania, Department of Humanities, PIACERI - Line 3 “Starting Grant”. Project: L’architettura della contea normanna in Sicilia e la cattedrale di Catania. PI.
University of Catania, Department of Humanities, PIACERI - Line 2, Audience, Remediation, Iconography, Environment in Contemporary Opera. PI: professor Stefania Rimini.
Congress Travel Awards for 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies (7-10 May 2020). Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo – USA.
Polytechnic of Turin, Department DIST. Project: Cistercian Cultural Heritage: knowledge and enhancement in a European framework (CCH). PI: professor Silvia Beltramo.
2019-2020
Director of work package 4: Archivi privati di Fernand de Dartein: corrispondenze internazionali (XIX-XX secolo). University of Catania, Department of Humanities. PROMETEO - Line 3. Project: Transnational Intellectual Networks between the Franco Prussian war (1870) and the end of cold war (1989). PI: professor Stefano Rapisarda.
Director of project: La cattedrale di Catania e l’architettura normanna in età di Contea. University of Catania, Department of Humanities. PROMETEO - Line 1.
Member of project: Patto per Catania – Fondo per lo Sviluppo e la Coesione (FSC 2014-2020) - Ordinamento scientifico e percorsi didattici del Museo civico Castello Ursino, nell'ambito del progetto Rifunzionalizzazione della rete museale della città di Catania - Intervento di riqualificazione integrata del Museo civico Castello Ursino. University of Catania, Department of Humanities.
2017-2018
Director of project: Emergenze monumentali d’età normanna nella Sicilia orientale. University of Catania, Department of Humanities. PROMETEO - Line 1.
Since 2012
Associated foreign researcher. Centre d’Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale di Poitiers – CESCM. Research Line: Axe 4. Territoires, monuments et technique – Programme A : Le monument religieux et son décor. Director of project: Encadrement scientifique de la base d’architecture lombarde De Dartein.
Member of project: Santuari d’Italia. Sicilia. International Association for Research on Shrines, Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities of the Italian Republic.