Sesilia Decolli

Sesilia Decolli (1991, Albania) has been a doctoral student in Art History at the École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL since 2023, in cotutelle with Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. Her scientific interests focus on Venetian painting during the Renaissance. Her thesis project, entitled “De pictura in theatro et de theatro in pictura”: correspondence between painting and theater in Venice in the 15th and 16th centuries, explores the interactions between painting, humanist thought and theatrical scenes through an interdisciplinary approach. She has also been awarded a residency at the Maison Française d’Oxford, which she will join in April 2026.