Temple University

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

Flavia has received degrees from the University of Bologna and the University of Padua, where she wrote a thesis on Giuseppe Porta Salviati’s drawings. She presented her research at international conferences and symposia, 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 several cultural institutions, including the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, where she worked in the Photo Library.

Flavia has taught and designed numerous courses, including on the history of collecting and the organization of parties and festivities in the early modern period. Her research has been supported by several Temple research grants, the Temple Rome Fellowship, the NIKI Ph.D. International Fellowship, the Kress Medici Archive Project Fellowship, and a Notre Dame Library Research Award. She has presented her doctoral research at the Renaissance Society of America and at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. During summer 2024 Flavia held a graduate internship in the Prints and Drawings Collection at Princeton University Art Museum, where she focused on provenance research. Flavia is now the curatorial intern in the Drawings Department at the Getty Museum.

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