Art of the Gesù: Bernini and His Age, at the Fairfield University Art Museum, featuring the first appearance outside of Rome of Bernini’s marble portrait bust of Roberto Bellarmino. Most recently, he was a member of the organizing committee (and catalog contributor) of the exhibit of Roman Baroque art, The Holy Name. He was also originator and co-curator of the 2005 exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum entitled Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800 and co-edited a companion volume entitled, Piety and Plague in Europe: From Byzantium to the Baroque, published in 2007. In 1999 he was principal curator and catalogue editor of the Boston Caravaggio exhibition, Saints and Sinners: Caravaggio and the Baroque Image. He holds as well a licentiate (Master’s degree) in church history from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, having also completed the Biennio di Filosofia program at the Gregorian University in Rome. His two graduate degrees in Italian (M.A. Born and raised in Manhattan, he did his undergraduate degree (B.A.) at Columbia University. of Romance Languages and Literatures at Boston College, where he has taught since 1994.

FRANCO MORMANDO is Professor of Italian, affiliate Professor in the Department of History, and chairperson of the Dept.

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