Giulia ZACCARIOTTO

Giulia Zaccariotto is currently Curator of the Sculpture and Applied Arts Collections at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, where she oversees the art collections, restoration campaigns, and the related exhibition and educational projects. She was a member of the scientific committee for the museum's reinstallation and edited the catalogue of the Mario Scaglia collection of Renaissance and Baroque medals, donated to the museum in 2022.

After studying at the Università degli Studi di Milano (bachelor's degrees in Historical Sciences and in Cultural Heritage Studies, master's degree in History and Criticism of Art), she earned her PhD at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (2018). During her doctoral studies she received several Italian and international grants and awards, including funding from the Fondazione Federico Zeri in Bologna and a Library Grant from the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. At the Scuola Normale in Pisa she also held a postdoctoral research fellowship (2020), followed by a fellowship at I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2021).

Her museum experience includes a collaboration with the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro in Venice (2014–2015, with studies on museography and collecting history); the coordination of the project to reorganize the medal collection of the Galleria Estense in Modena, made possible by a scholarship from the Fondazione Memofonte in Florence (2017–2019); and collaborations with the VIVE museum complex in Rome (Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia) on its heritage cataloguing project, and with the Frick Collection in New York on the exhibition Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500 (2026–2027).

Her research focuses mainly on Venetian Renaissance painting and sculpture. She is currently preparing a critical edition of a manuscript by Marin Sanudo, a documentary source for Renaissance painting and sculpture in Venice. She has already published excerpts from it concerning works by Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, and Giorgione, the last of whom is the subject of her book "Vivitur Ingenio". I Tre filosofi di Giorgione e Taddeo Contarini (2024).

With Neville Rowley, she is co-curating the exhibition Bellini, Antonello, Giorgione, Tiziano. L'origine del ritratto a Venezia (Accademia Carrara, September 2027–January 2028).

She holds the Italian National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Associate Professor in the field 10/B1, Art History (valid until 2034).