Her interests involve both modern Flemish painting, for which she has published the monograph Rubens e gli arciduchi delle Fiandre Meridionali (Ginevra Bentivoglio 2018), and contemporary art, dealing in particular with sculpture in the publication Le opere di Venanzo Crocetti a Roma. She has collaborated with the Hallie Ford Museum of the Willamette University of Salem (Oregon-USA) with a research project sponsored by the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaelogy (CASA). She was a member of the scientific committee of the exhibition Rubens e la Nascita del Barocco (Milan 2016-2017) and Rubens and the birth of the Baroque (Tokyo 2018-2019). For the Italian Ministry of the National Affair, he curated the collective exhibitions of contemporary art L’Aquila non si muove (Rome, Palazzo Ferdinando di Savoia, 2009) and Sfide e Speranze (Rome, Palazzo Ferdinando di Savoia – Turin, Palazzo della Regione Piemonte, 2010). For the Grande Napoli Arte exhibition (Naples, Castel Nuovo, 2012) she was the curator of the section of 19th and 20th century paintings. In 2019, she edited the catalog of Goya’s etchings taken from The Disasters of War series and Claudio Bonichi’s works, both from the Alfredo Paglione collection exhibited on permanent loan at the „Gabriele d ‚Annunzio“ University Museum in Chieti.
Bibliography
Cecilia Paolini, L’inventario post-mortem di Luigi Robutti (1807), The Getty Research Provenance Databases.
Cecilia Paolini, Il ritrovato ritratto dell’Arciduca Alberto VII di Peter Paul Rubens: confronto diagnostico e iconografico con la ritrattistica rubensiana, in: Kermes, n. 93, 2014.
Cecilia Paolini, Ricardo de Mambro Santos, “Ritratto di un Rubens Italiano”, Milano, 2014, Silvana Editore.
Ricardo de Mambro Santos, Cecilia Paolini, Due Proposte per un Rubens Inedito, in: “Ricerche di Storia dell’Arte, n. 110, 2013.
Cecilia Paolini (edited by…), “Il Cielo Svelato” (Art Catalogue), Napoli, 2013, Daphne Museum Edizioni.
Cecilia Paolini, “Derive” (Art Catalogue), Napoli, 2013, Daphne Museum Edizioni.
Cecilia Paolini, “Il Filo Continuo” (Art Catalogue), Napoli, 2013, Daphne Museum Edizioni.
Cecilia Paolini, “Caldo come il Deserto, Freddo come il Marmo” (Art Catalogue), Napoli, 2012, Daphne Museum Edizioni.
VV. (foreword by Cecilia Paolini), “Grande Napoli Arte” (Art Catalogue), Napoli, 2011, Daphne Museum Edizioni.
Cecilia Paolini, “Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense” (Art Catalogue), Roma – Napoli, 2011, Daphne Museum Edizioni.
Cecilia Paolini, “Bestiame Umano” (Art Catalogue), Roma, 2011, Calycanthus Edizioni.
Cecilia Paolini, “Verde Carne, Chioma Verde” (Art Catalogue), Roma – Napoli, 2011, Daphne Museum Edizioni.
Roberta di Chiara, Cecilia Paolini, “Sfide e Speranze” (Art Catalogue), Roma – Torino, 2010, Calycanthus Edizioni.
Cecilia Paolini (a cura di…), “L’Aquila Non Si Muove” (Art Catalogue), Roma, 2010, One Network Experience.
Cecilia Paolini (critical text edited by …), “Vae Victis”, Roma, 2009, Miligraf.
Exhibitions
December 2013 – Luigi Cervone, “Accinctio”, at Museo di Villa Vecchia – Villa Doria Pamphilj , Rome, Italy.
November 2013 – Lorena Peris, “Vertigine”, at Cripta Borromeo – Basilica dei Santi Ambrogio e Carlo, Rome, Italy.
May 2013 – exhibition of Italian Contemporary Art, “Il Cielo Svelato”, at Complesso Monumentale „Sant’Andrea al Quirinale – Teatro dei Dioscuri“, Rome, Italy.
January 2013 – Bruno Melappioni, “Il Filo Continuo”, at Complesso Monumentale „San Salvatore in Lauro“, Rome, Italy.
February/March 2012 – Brahim Achir, “Caldo come il Deserto, Freddo come il Marmo”, at Museo di Villa Vecchia – Villa Doria Pamphilj, Rome, Italy.
July 2011 – exhibition of French and Italian Contemporary Art, “Verde Carne, Chioma Verde”, at Museo di Cascina Farsetti, Rome, Italy.
June 2011 – exhibition of Italian Modern Art, “Grande Napoli Arte”, at Maschio Angioino, Naples, Italy.
October/November 2011 – Sergio Angeli, “Bestiame Umano”, at Museo di Villa Vecchia – Villa Doria Pamphilj, Rome, Italy.
May 2011 – exhibition of Contemporary Art, “Il Ritorno degli Dei”, at Casale dei Monaci, Ciampino, Italy.
January 2011 – exhibition of Contemporary Art, “No Canvas!”, at “Scuderie Estensi”, Tivoli, and “Torretta Valadier”, Rome, Italy.
October/December 2010 – exhibition of Contemporary Art, “Sfide e Speranze”, at Palazzo Ferdinando di Savoia, Rome, and Palazzo della Regione, Turin, Italy.
July 2010 – performing art, “Furor Morendi”, at Passover Art Gallery, Rome, Italy.
May 2010 – exhibition and workshop of Cultural Heritage in Abruzzo, “L’Aquila non si muove”, at Musei Capitolini, Rome, Italy.
August/September 2009 – exhibition of Contemporary Art, “Thalassa”, at Nettuno Club, Capri (Naples), Italy.
August 2009 – international performing expo, “EurMusicArte”, at Parco del Ninfeo, Rome, Italy.
June/July 2009 – exhibition of Contemporary Art, “Wunderka(v)er!”, at Rifugio Antiaereo E.U.R., Rome, Italy.
June/July 2008 – exhibition of Contemporary Art, “Homo Faber”, at Rifugio Antiaereo E.U.R., Rome, Italy.
October 2007, exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Art, “Inaugurazione a Roma”, at Artitalia Art Gallery, Rome, Italy
January 2003 – exhibition of Ancient Art, “La chiesa di S. Lucia. Un sito con duemila anni di storia”, at Museo Civico “U. Mastroianni”, Marino (Rome), Italy.
April 2002, educational exhibition and workshop, “Terzo congresso internazionale di Archeologia dell’Antico Oriente” (ICAANE), at “La Sorbonne” University, Paris.
November 2001 – exhibition of Ancient Art, “La Villa Romana”, at Museo Civico “U. Mastroianni”, Marino (Rome), Italy.