Temple University

Flavia Barbarini (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in the art of early modern Italy, with a specific focus on drawings and prints. Her research interests include collecting and display, museology, art markets, and fresco decorations. Her doctoral dissertation examines the circulation and the market of drawings in sixteenth-century Italy, with an emphasis on the collection of the Florentine senator Niccolò Gaddi.

Flavia received degrees from the University of Bologna and the University of Padua, where she wrote a dissertation on Giuseppe Porta Salviati’s drawings, and she has published essays on the lost painted façades executed by Porta Salviati in Venice.

Before joining Temple, Flavia worked in the drawings department at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. While studying in Italy, she held internships at numerous cultural institutions, including the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, where she worked in the Photo Library.

At Temple, Flavia has taught several courses, including a writing intensive class dedicated to the history of collecting in the early modern period. Her research has been supported by several Temple research grants, the Temple Rome Fellowship, the NIKI PhD International Fellowship, and the Kress Medici Archive Project Fellowship.

MA, Art History, University of Padua, 2017 BA, Arts, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, 2014

Dissertation Title: “Searching for Drawings in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Provenances and Networking in the Eye of the Collector”

Advisor: Marcia Hall, PhD