Carmelo Occhipinti trained under the direction of Paola Barocchi at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. He is a Full Professor at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where he teaches History of Art Criticism, Museology and History of Collecting, Philology and History of Artistic Enjoyment. At the same University, he is the Coordinator of the Master’s Degree Course in History of Art, Academic Senator and President of the II level University Master’s Degree in “New Technologies for Communication, Cultural Management and Teaching of Art History”. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Scientific Journal “Horti Hesperidum. Studies in the History of Collecting and Artistic Historiography”. He is the author of many books, including the recent Percorsi di storia artistica e storiografia. Rome, Italy and Europe between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Carocci 2021), and over a hundred scientific contributions, mostly dedicated to themes of artistic literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries, but his interests range as far as contemporary art.
