Daniele
BENATI

Daniele Benati is graduated at the University of Bologna in 1979, discussing his thesis with Carlo Volpe. After having taught at the Universities of Udine (1991-1999) and Chieti (1999-2007), since 2007 he has been Full Professor at the University of Bologna. He is currently coordinator of the Doctorate in Media Performative Visual Arts and president of the School of Specialization in historical and artistic heritage of the University of Bologna. Since 1988 he has been collaborating with the ‘Roberto Longhi’ Foundation in Florence and since 1994 he has been called to join the Scientific Committee of the same Foundation. Since 2012 he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the ‘Federico Zeri’ Foundation of the University of Bologna. He deals with painting from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century mainly in the Emilia-Romagna area, with particular attention to the fourteenth century in Bologna and Rimini, the Late Gothic and Renaissance in Bologna, the late Manner and the reform of the Carracci. He is the author of numerous publications and has curated numerous exhibitions. In January 2014 he was Chercheur invited to the INHA, where he contributed cataloging the paintings kept in French museums on the Agorha database.