Cecilia Goletti
Cecilia is an Art Historian who graduated with a 110 cum laude with the chair of Medieval Art History at La Sapienza University in Rome. During her time as a student, she did her training internship as a guide at the Quirinal Palace. Before finishing her university course, she won a six-month internship grant at the Max Plank Institute - Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. In 2022 she began her PhD in Art History with a fellowship at La Sapienza University in Rome.
Italian art: Raphael's Madonnas
Raphael Sanzio, the son of the painter Giovanni di Sante di Pietro, can be considered an enfant prodige given that already at the age of seventeen he is referred to as a "magister" in the contract submitted to him for the creation of the altarpiece for the Baronci Chapel in the church of Sant'Agostino in Città di Castello, Umbria. Beginning in 1505...
Italian art: The beginning of the Middle Ages in Rome. The Arch of Constantine
The long period of the Middle Ages is inscribed between two particularly important dates: 476 A.D., which coincides with the deposition of the last Western Roman emperor - Romulus Augustus - and 1492, the year of the discovery of America. The earliest considerations of this historical period are rooted in and take off from the Renaissance. From the...