Participant Info

First Name
Lisa
Last Name
Pieraccini
Country
United States
State
CA
Affiliation
Faculty History of Art; Director, Mario Del Chiaro Center for the Study of Ancient Italy
Website URL
https://arthistory.berkeley.edu/people/lisa-pieraccini
Keywords
Ancient Italy, Etruscan, Wall Painting, Food and Ritual, Decolonizing, Reception
Availability
1
Additional Contact Information
PhD
PhD

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About Me

Lisa C. Pieraccini works on the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean with special emphasis on ancient Italy. She taught and conducted research in Rome and southern Etruria for several years. Her interests in ancient Mediterranean art reflect global and cross disciplinary approaches to understanding the past. Issues related to decolonization and indigeneity as well as reception studies, digital humanities, cultural heritage and antiquity in film are just some of the subjects explored in her courses. Dr. Pieraccini has published a variety of articles and book chapters on a wide range of subject matter dedicated to the Etruscans, the historical and cultural impact of the Grand Tour, collection histories and the curious re-use of ancient art in modern media. She is co-editor of the series Cities and Communities of the Etruscans (with Nancy de Grummond) published by Texas University Press; co-editor of the book, Material Connections, Artistic Exchange: The Case of Etruria and Anatolia (2023) (with Elizabeth Baughan) published by Cambridge University Press; co-editor of the volume, Consumption, Ritual, Art and Society: Interpretive Approaches and Recent Discoveries of Food and Drink in Etruria (2023) (with Laurel Taylor) published by Brepols and consulting editor of the journal Etruscan and Italic Studies. She is an elected member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici in Florence, Italy. Dr. Pieraccini is the recipient of the 2023 United States Capitol Historical Society Fellowship and is conducting research on “Neoclassical Depictions of Native American Women and Early American Identity at the US Capitol.”She is currently the Interim Director of the Mario Del Chiaro Center for the Study of Ancient Italy as well as the President of the Archaeological Institute of America’s San Francisco Chapter and an Advisory Council Member for MAGPRA (Mediterranean Antiquities Provenance Research Alliance) which received an NEH Grant in 2024.

Recent Publications

2023  Consumption, Ritual, Art and Society: Interpretive Approaches and Recent Discoveries of Food and Drink in Etruria. Edited by L. C. Pieraccini and L. Taylor. Brepols (June 2023).

2023  Material Connections and Artistic Exchange: Etruria and Anatolia. Edited by L. Baughan and L. C. Pieraccini. Cambridge University Press.

2023  “Etruscans in Unexpected Places – Space, Temporality and Visual Agency,” in, Close Encounters with a Spectral Past, editors., M. Piperno, B. Van Den Bossche & C. Zampieri.

2021  R. Levitan, “Out of Etruria: Collecting and Context in California,” in Lo stronao caso di Francesco Mancinelli Scotti, edited by M. C. Biella and J. Tabolli, Fondazione Luigi Rovati, 527-535.

2018 “An Egyptian Tomb, an Etruscan Inscription and the Funerary Monument of an American Civil War Officer,” in An Etruscan Affair: The Impact of Early Etruscan Discoveries on European Culture, ed., J. Swaddling. The British Museum, 188-194.

2018 “Collecting Etruscans for California: The Story of Philanthropist, Phoebe A. Hearst and Archaeologist, Alfred Emerson,” in Etruscans in North America – Archaeological Institute of America Selected Papers on Ancient Art, eds., by A. Carpino and R. De Puma. Archaeological Institute of America, 45-58.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Italy
Expertise by Geography
Mediterranean
Expertise by Chronology
Ancient
Expertise by Topic
Art & Architectural History, Food History, Material Culture, Museums