Antonio Aimi | Università degli Studi di Milano - State University of Milan (Italy) (original) (raw)

Graduated in Philosophy, Antonio Aimi is an americanist, who works on the interpretation of sources (texts and archaeological items) of Pre-Columbian Cultures with an interdisciplinary approach.
He studied the Amerindian items of some Northern Italian collections of the XVI-XIX centuries and the figurative language of the sculptures of the Proto-Classical cultures of West Mexico.
He has been curator or co-curator of important exhibitions of Pre-Columbian Art and has been following the issues raised in Europe by the opening or the transformation of ethnographical museums.
Furthermore, his research on the ethno-historical sources clarified that the “official” version of the Aztec interpretation of the conquest of Mexico is an invention of Cortés himself.
Studying the Maya vases of the Late Classic Period, with Raphael Tunesi he discovered eight new Maya painters.
From 2003 he is Adjunct Professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano.
From 2006 he is co-director of the activities of the Università degli Studi di Milano in the Prodesipán and Propómac Projects (North Coast of Perú), that, inter alia, brought to new archaeological researches and to the creation of Museo de Sitio de Sipán

Main exhibitions organized as curator or co-curator:
L'or des Incas: origines et mystères, Pinacothèque de Paris, Paris, 2010
Inca: origine e misteri delle civiltà dell’oro, Santa Giulia, Brescia; 2009
L’oro del Perù, Palazzo Chiericati, Vicenza, 2007
Perù, tremila anni di capolavori, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2003
Civiltà dell’Amazzonia, Castello di Lerici, Lerici, 1992
Musaeum Septalianum, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, 1984

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