Giulia ZACCARIOTTO

Giulia Zaccariotto is currently curator of sculpture and decorative arts at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, where she takes care of art collections, restoration campaigns, exhibitions and educational projects. She was member of the scientific commission for the new display of the museum and author of the catalogue of the Mario Scaglia collection of Renaissance and Baroque medals donated to the museum in 2022.

After first education at the University of Milan (degrees in Historical Sciences and in Cultural Heritage Sciences, master's degree in History and Criticism of Art), she obtained the PhD at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (2018).
During the PhD years she won some Italian and foreign scholarships and awards, such as a scholarship from the Fondazione Federico Zeri in Bologna and a Library Grant from the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. At the Scuola Normale di Pisa she also had a post-doctoral research fellowship (2020), followed by one other 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 museographic and collecting studies) and the coordination of the project to reorder the medals collection of the Galleria Estense in Modena, thanks to a scholarship from the Fondazione Memofonte in Florence (2017-2019). She currently collaborates with the VIVE museum in Rome (Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia) within the heritage cataloging project and with the Frick Collection in New York for an upcoming exhibition.

Her research topics are mainly linked to Venetian Renaissance and sculpture, with particular attention to serial-produced metal objects. Medals studies, argument also of her doctoral thesis, led her to develop different lines of study in terms of geography and chronology and to read metal portraits in their function as a vehicle of images and meanings, as well as in their relationship with painting and sculpture. Regarding the field of medals, she also explored issues relating to the use of alphabetical characters, but also to market, collecting and forgery.

She has recently written about military architecture of the Serenissima (Antonio Gambello), about the antiquities trade in sixteenth-century Venice (Rocco Scarizza and the Savoys) and about eighteenth-century Lombard wooden sculpture, both from the point of view of drawings, sacred and secular production, and also of collecting (the Fantoni workshop).

She is currently working on the critical edition of a manuscript by Marin Sanudo, a documentary source for Renaissance painting and sculpture in Venice.

She obtained the Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale for second level teaching for the sector 10/B1 (valid until 2034).