Lunarita Sterpetti

Lunarita Sterpetti obtained the Bachelor’s Degree in Historical and Artistic Studies in 2015 and then the Master’s Degree in Art History in January 2018 at La Sapienza in Rome. In the same year she won the post-graduate scholarship for a six-month research project at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and the Ph.D. in History of Art. During the years of university she carried out training activities at the Barberini and Corsini National Galleries and participated in the Iconos project for which she studied the textual and iconographic tradition of the myth of Leda and the swan. In 2017 she won the “Path of excellence”

 program for deserving students and then carried out a period of study and research at the State Archives of Florence, the results are collected in the Master’s degree Thesis, title “The hidden collection of Ottaviano de’ Medici (1482 – 1546)”. Currently, she studies the collection of Ottaviano de’ Medici (Florence 1482 – 1546) in relation to the contemporary political reality of Florence, to the history of the Medici and private Florentine collecting during the first half of the XVI century.