Queen Mary, University of London

Research Assistant, English

Research Assistant for the project 'Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800'

Thesis Title: Consumption and Baronial Identity in Sixteenth-Century Rome: Paolo Giordano I Orsini, Duke of Bracciano (1541-1585)

About

In November 2011 the Gerda Henkel Foundation has awarded my research project 'Antiquities in Motion in Early Modern Rome: People, Objects and Practices' with a Marie Curie fellowship for the academic years 2012-2014. Starting from October 2012, my host institution will be the Warburg Institute in London.

Starting from September 2011, I am Research Assistant for the international research project 'Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800', sponsored by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area),www.fashioningtheearlymodern.ac.uk

I am collaborating in the research project 'Display of Art in Roman Palaces, 1550-1750', organized by The Getty Research Institute and directed by Dr. Gail Feigenbaum (http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/the-display-of-art-in-roman-palaces/).

My new book - A Renaissance Baron and His Possessions. Paolo Giordano I Orsini, Duke of Bracciano (1541-1585) - is forthcoming by Brepols in the UCLA series 'Cursor Mundi' in summer 2012.

Forthcoming conferences:
1. Oxford,15-16 June, 'Between collection and stock. The ambiguous role of merchants as collectors of antiquities in sixteenth-century Rome', at the conference ‘Early Merchants as Collectors’, organized by Dr. Christina Anderson at the Ashmolean Museum.
2. Nuremberg, 22-24 July,'Unexpected shifts. Thieves as mobilizers of art and objects in early-modern Europe', in the panel ‘Objects on the Move: Histories of Provenance and Preservation’, organized by Prof. Zhu Qingsheng LaoZhu and Prof. Ingo Herklotz at the meeting of the CIHA (Comité International d'histoire de l'Art).