Didatticarte founder Emanuela Pulvirenti on teaching art online before the pandemic

Emanuela Pulvirenti, architect and teacher, launched Didatticarte in 2011 as a website to upload slides for her art history lessons, later adding a blog in 2013. Initially created for her high school students, it evolved into a personal space for unorthodox teaching ideas. The blog now has over 200,000 Facebook followers. Pulvirenti criticizes social media profiles that use art for cheap jokes or superficial imitation of paintings, arguing such approaches are ignorant and damaging. She insists on the need for cultural knowledge to decode images, citing an example where followers mistook Zurbarán's 'Agnus Dei' for animal cruelty. Despite taking a break from teaching in 2020, she advocates for integrating digital tools into classroom education, not just in emergencies. Her manual 'Artemondo' is published by Zanichelli.