Sebastian Sagittarius

Sebastian Schütze (* 1961 in Düsseldorf ) is a German art historian and university professor .

Life

Sebastian Schütze studied art history, classical archeology and ancient history in Berlin, Bonn, Cologne and Rome. In 1989 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin . From 1992 to 1997 he was a research assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for Art History) in Rome. The habilitation took place in 1997 again at the Free University of Berlin . After substituting professorships at the Universities of Leipzig, Münster and Dresden, Schütze was Professor of Modern Art History at Queen's University (Kingston) Ontario (Canada) from 2003 to 2009, and has been Professor of Modern Art History at the University of Vienna since 2009 .

In 2013 Schütze was elected a corresponding member in Germany and in 2016 a real member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

His main research interests are Italian art of the early modern period and its European influence.

Fonts

Monographs

• Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII, and the emergence of the Roman high baroque , Munich 2007 (Roman research of the Bibliotheca Hertziana XXXII)
• Caravaggio. The complete work , Cologne 2009 (further editions in Italian, Spanish, French, English, Dutch, Polish and Japanese)
• "Massimo Stanzione. L`Opera Completa", Naples 1992 (together with T. Willette).
• "William Blake. The drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy" (together with Maria Antonietta Terzoli), Cologne 2014 (further editions in Italian, Spanish, French and English).

Exhibitions

• "Bernini Scultore e la nascita del barocco in Casa Borghese", catalog of the exhibition, ed. by A. Coliva and S. Schütze, Villa Borghese, Rome 1998.
• "Melchior Lechter's counter-worlds. Art around 1900 between Münster, India and Berlin", catalog of the exhibition, ed. by J. Krause and S. Schütze, Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster 2006.
• “Caravaggio and his Followers in Rome”, catalog of the exhibition in the National Gallery of Canada and the Kimbell Art Museum, ed. by D. Franklin and S. Schütze, Ottawa and Fort Worth 2011.
• "Bernini. Inventor of Baroque Rome", catalog of the exhibition, ed. by H.-W. Schmidt, S. Schütze and J. Stoschek, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig 2014.
• "The Divine. Hommage to Michelangelo", exhibition catalog, curated by G. Satzinger and S. Schütze, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn 2015.

Congress files and essay volumes

• "Ars naturam adiuvans. Festschrift for Matthias Winner on March 11, 1996", ed. by V. von Flemming and S. Schütze, Mainz 1996.
• "Poussin et Rome", files of the International Conference in Rome (Accademia di Francia and Bibliotheca Hertziana, 1994), ed. by O. Bonfait, CL Frommel, M. Hochmann and S. Schütze, Paris 1996.
• "Pietro da Cortona", files of the International Conference in Rome (Comitato Nazionale per le celebrazioni di Pietro da Cortona, Bernini, Borromini, 1997), ed. by CL Frommel and S. Schütze, Milan 1998.
• "Docere-Delectare-Movere. Affetti, devozione e retorica nel linguaggio artistico del primo barocco romano", files of the International Conference in Rome (Istituto Olandese and Bibliotheca Hertziana, 1996), ed. by S. De Blaauw, P.-M. Gijsbers, S. Schütze and B. Treffers, Rome 1998.
• "Palazzo Sacchetti", ed. by S. Schütze, Rome 2003.
• "Estetica Barocca", files of the International Conference in Rome (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Bibliotheca Hertziana and Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici), ed. by S. Schütze, Rome 2004.
• "The Collection of Antiquities from the Cabinet of Sir William Hamilton", with an introduction by S. Schütze (in English, German and French), Cologne 2004.
• "Art and its viewers in the early modern period. Views-Standpoints-Perspectives", ed. by S. Schütze, Berlin 2005.
• "I Barberini e la Cultura Europea del Seicento", files of the International Conference in Rome (Soprintendenza per il Polo Museale Romano, Bibliotheca Hertziana and Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici), ed. by L. Mochi Onori, S. Schütze and F. Solinas, Rome 2007.
• "Napoli, è tutto il mondo. Arte Napoletana e Cultura Europea tra Umanesimo ed Illuminismo", files of the International Conference in Rome (American Academy), ed. by L. Pestilli, I. Rowland and S. Schütze, Rome 2008.
• "St. Peter in Rome 1506-2006", files of the international conference in Bonn (Bundeskunsthalle), ed. by G. Satzinger and S. Schütze, Munich 2008.
• "Le Dessin Napolitain", files from the International Conference in Paris (Ecole Normale Supérieure), ed. by S. Schütze and F. Solinas, Rome 2010.
• "Dimore signorili a Napoli. Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano e il mecenatismo aristocratico dal XVI al XX secolo", ed. by AE Denunzio, L. Di Mauro, G. Muto, S. Schütze and A. Zezza, Fondazione del Banco San Paolo / IMI, Naples 2013.
• “Carlo Maratti e l'Europa”, files from the international conference (Università Roma Tre, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, University of Vienna, Palazzo Altieri and Accademia di San Luca), ed. by L. Barroero, S. Prosperi Valenti Rodinò and S. Schütze, Rome 2015.
• "Fausto and Felice Niccolini, Houses and monuments of Pompeii", with introductory essays by V. Kockel and S. Schütze (in English, German and French), Cologne 2016.
• "Dante and the Fine Arts. Dialogues - Reflections - Transformations", ed. by MA Terzoli and S. Schütze, Berlin / Boston 2016.
• "Bernini disegnatore. Nuove prospettive di ricerca", files of the international conference, organized by the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for Art History) and the Institute for Art History of the University of Vienna (Austrian Historical Institute in Rome, 2015), ed. by S. Ebert-Schifferer, T. Marder and S. Schütze, Rome 2017.
• Tasso and the fine arts. Dialogues - Reflections - Transformations, files of the international conference, organized by the Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna and the Seminar for Italian Studies at the University of Basel, ed. by Sebastian Schütze and Maria Antonietta Terzoli, Berlin and Boston 2018 (434 pages).

Web links

• Literature by and about Sebastian Schütze in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personnel page at the University of Vienna