Profile:
Art expert and historian
Functions:
Graduates in History of Art will be able to perform advisory functions for individuals, organizations, institutions, agencies institutions (not only for strictly cultural purposes) in relation to their own educational path and field studied. They will therefore be able to act, in public or private contexts as a reference for cultural policies and for the enhancement of the typical field of study. During the course they will acquire the following skills to spend in the professional field:
- Mastery of the main historical-artistic areas for the correct placement of works of art in space and time.
- Evaluation and contextualization of artistic phenomena.
- Correct planning capacity for museum education.
- Ability to plan and manage the internal and external communication (cultural and informational) of museum and cultural institutions in the historical-artistic area.
Skills:
Cultural mediator in the historical-artistic field in a dissemination, tourism and/or educational sense: ability to analyse and synthesize data and information in a critical and effective way for the purposes of scientific promotion and dissemination in the territory, with the support of updated bibliographic tools, using communication tools consistent with the target audience of potential users.
Curator of private and/or museum collections: acquisition of skills as a connoisseur useful for the critical selection and cataloguing of artistic artefacts for consultancy aimed at the composition or growth of art collections, or for curatorial activity, for in depth study, enhancement and communication of the collections themselves.
Creator and organizer of historical-artistic cultural events:
Acquisition of skills in ideation, also economic management and promotion of artistic-cultural opportunities targeted to different types of public, through the mastery of artistic knowledge related to a wide range of historical periods and phases.
Scientific referent in the field of antiques or forensics:
Expertise in supporting buyers, merchants and operators as a consultant in transactions or assessments within the art market and in controversial judicial matters.
Historical-artistic scholar:
Experience in the reconstruction of the historical-stylistic path of artistic works and phenomena, with specific reference to attributive issues, to the definition of the context of occurrence and the specific cultural function.
Art criticist:
Competence in recognizing even contemporary artistic phenomena and in interpreting and contextualizing them to provide specialist advice and communication on mainstream media.
Editorial consultant:
Up-to-date expertise in the field of historical-artistic studies, combined with knowledge concerning the organization of scientific, informative and promotional publications.
Expert in digital communication of Cultural Heritage
In-depth knowledge of the History of Art, collecting and museology enriched by technical skills related to the digitization of Cultural Heritage for the realization of integrated communication solutions, oriented to the promotion and enhancement of Cultural Heritage.
Professional opportunities:
- Art experts - (2.5.3.4.2).
- Curators and museum curators - (2.5.4.5.3), subject to the acquisition of any additional qualifications (as a 2nd level master's degree), according to the provisions of current legislation.
- Private practice.
- Public bodies employing professionals figure in possession of the specific 2nd cycle degree (Cultural Heritage Superintendence., etc.)
- Private profit and non-profit cultural associations needing organizers of cultural events and/or cultural mediators.
- Teaching of historical-artistic subjects in the schools (subject to the acquisition of all the indispensable requisites for access to the former class A/61 today A-54 (History of Art) and the subsequent competition for qualification according to the national law in force.
- Researchers and graduated technicians in antiquity, philological-literary and historical-artistic sciences - (2.6.2.4.0) (in the case of Researchers, after acquiring the PhD as per ministerial regulations)
- Category of tourist guides (subject to acquisition of the necessary qualification according to current legislation)