Lucas De Francesco
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Lucas De Francesco

Curator and art historianLondon, United Kingdom
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Lucas De Francesco
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Lucas De Francesco

Curator and art historianLondon, United Kingdom
About me
Graduate in Art History and museology, specialising in western painting, aesthetic theory and curatorship.
Work history
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    Co-curatorIndependent
     - Paris, FranceFreelance
    Tasks : - Preparing for a forthcoming exhibition of paintings and drawings by Oskar Rabin, Alexander Rabin and Valentina Kropivnitskaya Projecting expenses for the exhibition - Requesting for tenders from insurance companies in order to insure works of art on display - Researching material in order to develop a scientific and didactic discourse on Oskar Rabin, his circle and Russian nonconformist art
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    Assistant CuratorMusee du Louvre
     - Paris, FranceInternship
    Internship, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Paintings Under the direction of Vincent Delieuvin, Curator Tasks: - Writing a new catalogue raisonné of Leonardo da Vinci’s grotesque heads (including followers, imitators and prints) and providing a comprehensive bibliography on the topic - 
Researching artworks to determine provenance and condition for major forthcoming exhibition on Leonardo da Vinci - Assisting the curator during condition report of Leonardo da Vinci’s Belle Ferronière on loan to the Louvre Abu Dhabi and during the annual scientific examination of the Gioconda - Assisting the curator during the removal of Titian’s Supper at Emmaus on loan to the Royal Academy of Arts and coming up with ideas during the new hanging of the sixteenth-century Italian painting rooms - Selecting artworks to put on display and taking into account all presentation constraints, creating pictures database and digital model in order to visualize a new display and supervising the hanging of artworks in collaboration with curatorial staff for the opening of two rooms dedicated to Nazi-looted art (MNR)
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Skills
  • Academic Research
  • Archival Research
  • Art Criticism
  • Curating
Education
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    Research Master Arts & CultureEcole du Louvre
     - Paris, France
    Master Applied Research in Art History, with Honors Thesis: Guercino’s reception in France through artistic inventories and sales catalogue Including a comprehensive catalogue of French engravings after Guercino and tables of Guercino paintings and drawings on the French art market in the 18th century
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    Curating, Collection Management, Writing and Museum StudiesEcole du Louvre
     - Paris, France
    Master in Museology Thesis: Guercino’s early works Relevant Coursework : Art Law and Administrative management, Acquisition policy-curatorial collecting, Sociology of culture, Cultural mediation, Conservation-restoration, Museology, Historiography
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