Il dialogo possibile tra arte e neuroscienze
David Freedberg in conversation with Dionigi Mattia Gagliardi


The editorial series Sinapsi [synapses] collects texts published in the journal Nodes since its foundation, as well as unpublished content. It delivers different writing forms: essays, interviews, scientific articles and of wide circulation.
The intention is to make accessible to readers, on the one hand, contents that are no longer available and, on the other hand, topics and writing never published before.


Abstract  Vol.11


David Freedberg is one of the pioneers of the scientific approach to art. Pierre Matisse Professor of Art History and Director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, he has long been a leading advocate for bringing art and neuroscience into dialogue. His research has been of fundamental importance across a range of disciplines, from art history to neuroaesthetics. He welcomed us into his office at the Italian Academy, where we had an invaluable conversation that, beginning with an account of his own research journey, offers an exceptionally lucid overview of the current state of the field and of how, and to what extent, the sciences and the humanities have drawn closer together in recent years.