Curatorial Research Fellowship

The Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome offers Curatorial Research Fellowships with a duration of three months to museum curators for projects on Italian art history from Late Antiquity to the present day in the context of their respective museum activities (e.g. curatorial research for the preparation of an exhibition or the editing of an inventory catalogue). A correlation to the current research priorities of the Bibliotheca Hertziana is welcome.

Curatorial Research Fellows receive a monthly expense allowance of approximately 1.750 € and are granted full access to all research resources of the Bibliotheca Hertziana. They are expected to reside in Rome for the duration of the fellowship and to actively take part in the institute's scientific life.

Museum-employed researchers who do not reside in Rome or the surrounding area are eligible to apply. The call for applications is issued once a year in June for the following year and is published on the institute's website in the section Opportunities.

Curatorial Research Fellows

Milena Gallipoli, Ph.D. (2024)
Museo de la Cárcova, Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires
Project: Italian Copies of Italian Art: Producers, Consumption, and Circulation of Casts in Buenos Aires

Sarah Ganz Blythe, Ph.D. (2024)
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Project: French artist Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont (1790-1871)

Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Ph.D. (2024)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover
Project: Corrosive Thinking: Metals, Making, and Atmosphere in Early Modern Europe

Martina Tanga, Ph.D. (2024)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Project: Female artists working in urban spaces in 1970s Italy


Artur Badach, Ph.D. (2023)
Royal Castle, Warsaw
Project: Bernardo Bellotto. On the 300th Anniversary of the Painter’s Birth

Dr. Stefania Girometti (2023)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Project: Die italienischen Zeichnungen des 17. Jahrhunderts in der Graphischen Sammlung des Städel Museums

Victor Hundsbuckler (2023)
Department of Drawings and Prints, Louvre Museum, Paris
Project: Drawing within friends. European Artists in Rome in the Seventeenth Century

Dr. Angela Windholz (2023)
Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera italiana
Project: Die Grafiksammlungen der Architekten Augusto Guidini Sr. und Pietro Bianchi. Zur Funktion der Grafik in der Praxis der Architekten 


Mikołaj Baliszewski, Ph.D. (2022)
Royal Castle, Warsaw
Project: The Great Awakening. Ruins of Antiquity and the Dawn of the Italian Renaissance

Elise Boutsen, M.A. (2022)
Rubenianum, Antwerp
Project: Œuvre catalogue of Hendrick van Cleve III, with more specific research on his stay in Rome and the function and interpretation of his imaginary Italianate landscapes

Dr. Hans-Ulrich Kessler (2022)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Bode-Museum
Project: Der Antike auf der Spur – Martin van Heemskerck zeichnet Rom

Claire Van Cleave, Ph.D. (2022)
Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples
Project: The Farnese Drawings at Capodimonte/La Raccolta dei Disegni Farnese a Capodimonte


Andrea Alessi, Ph.D. (2021)
Museo civico e diocesano di Acquapendente
Project: Le commissioni francescane nella Gerusalemme d’Europa 

David Pullins, Ph.D. (2021)
The Metropolitan Museum, New York City
Project: The Italian Grand Tour of Enslaved Painter Juan de Pareja, 1649–1651


Elise Boutsen, M.A. (2020)
Rubenianum, Antwerp
Project: Œuvre catalogue of Hendrick van Cleve III, with more specific research on his stay in Rome and the function and interpretation of his imaginary Italianate landscapes 

Marina Vidas, Ph.D. (2020)
National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
Project: Paintings in Gold: Sight, Reflection and Experience, 1320–1440 


Dr. Mario Epifani (2019)
Soprintendenza archeologia belle arti e paesaggio, Torino
Project: Francesco De Mura tra Torino e Napoli 

Dr. Dorothee Hansen (2019)
Kunsthalle Bremen
Project: Untersuchungen zu einem frühen Hauptwerk von Friedrich Nerly: Landschaft der römischen Campagna mit Aqua Claudia 

Dr. des. Marion Heisterberg (2019)
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett
Project: Die italienischen Zeichnungen des Cinquecento im Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden

Prof. Dr. Ana Gonçalves Magalhães (2019)
Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo
Project: A Collection of Italian Modern Art in Brazil and the Roman Artistic Milieu in the 1930s 

Dr. Stefan Schweizer (2019)
Stiftung Schloss und Park Benrath, Düsseldorf
Project: "Giardini pensili" – Ideen-, Bild- und Baugeschichte zwischen dem 15. und 17. Jahrhundert 


Dr. Angelamaria Aceto (2018)
Ashmolean Museum Oxford
Project: Unveiling Raphael's drawing practice

Dr. Stefan Morét (2018)
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Project: Zeichnungen von Giovanni Battista Piranesi und seiner Werkstatt in der Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

Dr. Gudrun Swoboda (2018)
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie
Project: Caravaggio & Bernini. Entdeckung der Gefühle 


Dr. Ljerka Dulibić (2017)
Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters, Zagreb
Project: Italian Old Masters' Paintings in Zagreb's Strossmayer Gallery Acquired in Rome

Dr. Andreas Henning (2017)
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Project: Bologneser Malerei der Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden

Dr. Martin Hirsch (2017)
Staatliche Münzsammlung München, Munich
Project: Die silberne Stadt. Rom im Spiegel seiner Medaillen 

Dr. Zoltán Kárpáti (2017)
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Project: Leonardo da Vinci and the Budapest Horse and Rider

Dr. Antje Scherner (2017)
Sammlung Angewandte Kunst, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
Project: Die Terrakotta-Modelle von Pierre Etienne Monnot (1657–1733) für zwei Marmorstatuen im Kasseler Marmorbad

Dr. Vasily A. Rastorguev (2017)
State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Project: Italian Renaissance Sculpture

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