Flavia Barbarini

Flavia Barbarini is a PhD candidate in Art History at Temple University (supervisor Dr. Marcia B. Hall). She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Bologna and her postgraduate degree at the University of Padua where she specialized in early modern drawings with a dissertation on the profane drawings of Giuseppe Porta Salviati. As a Kress Fellow at MAP, Flavia is working on her doctoral dissertation dedicated to the market and the circulation of drawings in sixteenth-century Italy, with a special focus on Niccolò Gaddi’s network and collection. Before beginning her fellowship at MAP, Flavia conducted research in Rome thanks to the Temple Rome Fellowship. Her research has also been supported by the International PhD Fellowship at NIKI, the Summer Research Grant of the Graduate Board of Temple University, and the Art History Research Award of Temple University.