Esther Giachetti

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).