Elisa Martini

Elisa Martini graduated at the Sapienza University of Rome in 2019 with a thesis on Michelangelo Cerquozzi collecting history and critical reception during the seventeenth century. Previously she completed a Master I in Museology at the École du Louvre of Paris, working on communities of Dutch and Flemish painters active in Rome.. She is currently enrolled in the postgraduate School of cultural heritage at the University of Florence and a fellow of the Fondazione Ermitage Italia. During her fellowship at the Medici Archive Project she aims to focus on the biography, career and artistic interests of Count Torquato Barbolani di Montauto, resident ambassador to the Holy See for the Grand Dukes Ferdinando II and Cosimo III de’ Medici, and one of Leopoldo de’ Medici’s art advisors in Rome, in the attempt to paint a more cohesive picture of the exchanges between Roman art market and Florence and particularly of the Medici’s collecting and commissioning prerogatives in the seventeenth century.