Camilla PIETRABISSA

Camilla Pietrabissa is an art historian of early modern Italy and France with a specialization in eighteenth-century art and theory. Before obtaining her PhD from The Courtauld Institute of Art in 2019 with a thesis on Rococo landscape painting in relation to urban development in Paris, she studied Art History and Social Sciences in Milan, Venice and London. She held a State-funded postdoctoral fellowship at IUAV University (2020–23), and fellowships at the Getty Research Institute (2024), the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich (2021), the Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura in Turin (2019–20), and the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris (2017–18). Her research and publications concern the intersection between art history and environmental studies, the representation of landscape, and the theory of painting and drawing. Her first book on landscape drawing in early 18th-century Paris was published in 2021 as Disegni di Natura Urbana. L'Immagine dei Dintorni di Parigi nel Primo Settecento. She is currently finishing the manuscript of her book Rococo landscapes. Painting urban nature in 18th-century Paris. She is also at work on a volume co-edited with Dr Elisa Spataro and entitled Landscape drawing 1500–1800: The Experience of Place, to be published in 2026. As a member of the ENCCRE, Collaborative Digital Edition of the Encyclopédie de Diderot et D’Alembert, based at Sorbonne Université, she contributes to the collective critical study of the Encyclopédie, particularly the volumes of plates.