Angelo Lo Conte is Associate Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. Before joining HKBU in 2019, he was Endeavour post-doctoral fellow at the Australian Institute of Art History, the University of Melbourne, and the inaugural ACIS Research Fellow at the David Rosand Library and Study Centre in Venice. He is the author of several studies on various aspects of Renaissance and Early Modern Art, including A Visual testament by Luca Riva: a deaf and mute pupil of the Procaccini, winner of the 2023 Renaissance Studies Article Prize, The Procaccini and the Business of Painting in Early Modern Milan (Routledge, 2021); and articles in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Source, Italian Studies, and the Journal of the History of Collections. His research has been supported by individual project grants, fellowships and residencies from institutions that include the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong; the Renaissance Society of America; the Australian Government; the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies; the Trustees of the Burlington Magazine Foundation; and the Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne. Angelo is Principal Investigator of two research projects funded by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong: The Colours of Silence: Untold Stories of Deaf Painters in Early Modern Europe (ECS 2020-2022) and Seeing the Invisible: Visual Representations of Disability in Early Modern Europe (1400-1700) (GRF 2022-2025). He is a former recipient of the Francis Haskell Award (2014) and an elected member of the Programme Committee of the Italian Art Society. 

• Early Modern Visual Culture
• Social History of Art
• Art and Disability
• Renaissance Art
• Creative Process and Workshop Practice
• Art Theory and Research Methodologies for the Arts