Abstract

The article analyzes the period when Giorgio de Marchis was a lecturer at the newly established Academy of Fine Arts in L’Aquila, namely the years between 1969 and 1974. After being appointed by the director of the Academy, Piero Sadun, who awarded him the highest score in the seleciton process, de Marchis was entrusted with teaching Historical Methodology. His participation in the life of the Academy was not limited to teaching, as he was involved by Sadun in the design of classes and programs in order to offer students an up-to-date and innovative course of instruction. However, de Marchis’s teaching activities overlapped with his work as an Art Historian at the National Gallery of Modern Art, and this was to be the main reason for his resignation from teaching in 1974, just before his departure for Japan, where he was to head the Italian Cultural Institute.