Interessi di ricerca
- Religious Artistic Patronage in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
- Digital Art History
- Cultural Heritage in the Aftermath of Human-Made and Natural Disasters
Progetto di ricerca
The Afterlife of the Void: Addressing the Lacunae of guasti in Early Modern Italy
Curriculum vitae
Chiara Capulli is a postdoctoral researcher in the Lise Meitner Group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana and an associate of the AC(H)E project at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. She earned her PhD in History of Art from the University of Cambridge in 2024, supported by an AHRC Lander Schol-arship and a predoctoral fellowship at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. Her research examined the impact of the 1529 guasto of Florence on the city’s artistic and architectural heritage. Chiara completed her BA and MA at La Sapienza University in Rome and her MPhil at Cambridge, also working as a student assistant at the Kunsthistorisches Institut.
In addition to her primary research, Chiara has cultivated a strong interest in digital humanities. She contributed as a digital art historian to the Getty-funded “Florence 4D” project (2019–2021) and served as a postdoctoral fellow in the DH Lab at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence (2024), with projects exploring the potential of digital tools to reconstruct the lost urban fabric of Florence and L’Aquila, respectively.
Chiara has also taught digital art history at various institutions, including the University of Exeter, Cambridge (as a Cambridge Digital Humanities Data School Methods Fellow, 2020–2021), UTIU (2023–), and the University of Düsseldorf (2025). Since 2023, she has been leading the Digital Art History Initiative at the Bibliotheca Hertziana.