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01.11.2024 - 30.11.2024
Medici Residency Daniel Arasse with the École française de Rome
Art history
Ester Giachetti is an art historian and doctoral student at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and the École normale supérieure in Paris (ED540). After obtaining her bachelor’s degree from the University of Padua and a double master’s degree from the University of Bologna and Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne, she worked on cataloguing the letters of 18th-century Italian artists held at the Fondation Custodia/Collection Frits Lugt. She then specialized in the study and conservation of 18th-century drawings and medium graphics, continuing her studies with a master’s degree at the École du Louvre and an internship at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (Graphic Arts department).
Entitled “Society, artistic mobility and graphic innovation: Nicolas Vleughels between Venice, Paris and Rome”, her thesis project focuses on the artistic practices and multifaceted activities of Nicolas Vleughels (1668-1737), through a methodological synergy of social history and the material study of works and their production. His residency project focuses on Vleughels’ activities as Director of the Académie de France in Rome (1726-1737), his relationship with 18th-century Roman antiquarians, his studio, and his translation of Ludovico Dolce’s “Dialogo sul colorito” (Florence, 1735).
with the École française de Rome
Since 2001, the French Academy in Rome and the École française de Rome have been awarding 8 Daniel Arasse fellowships each year for missions in art history. Starting in 2021, these fellowships are intended for French-speaking doctoral and post-doctoral researchers (for a 1st post-doctoral fellowship) in art history wishing to travel to Rome to carry out research in Roman institutions and/or elsewhere in Italy on the modern and contemporary period. There is no nationality requirement. The grant amounts to 1,000 euros per month.