Writing: what for and for whom
The joys and travails of the artist

Rome, April 27-28, 2015

Msgr. Timothy Verdon, born in the United States, is an art historian formed at Yale University. He has lived in Italy for 47 years and since 1994 he is a Roman Catholic priest in Florence, where he directs both the Diocesan Office of Sacred Art and Church Cultural Heritage and the Cathedral Foundation Museum (Museo dell’Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore). Author of several books and articles on sacred art in Italian and English, he has been a Consultant of the Pontifical Commission for Church Cultural Heritage and a Fellow of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. He is currently teaching at Stanford University (Florence section). He writes regularly for the cultural page of the Osservatorio Romano. Timothy Verdon is also Director of the Centre for Ecumenism of the Archdiocese of Florence. He lives in Florence where he is a Canon of the Cathedral.