Dr. Chiara Capulli

Chiara Capulli is a postdoctoral fellow in the Lise Meitner Group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – MPI and an associate researcher in the Department Wolf and the DH Lab at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. She obtained her PhD in History of Art from the University of Cambridge in 2024, with an AHRC Lander Scholarship (2017–21) and a Bibliotheca Hertziana predoctoral fellowship (2022–24) supporting her research on the impact of the 1529 guasto of Florence on the city's artistic and architectural heritage. Prior to her doctoral studies, she earned her BA (2013) and MA (2015) from La Sapienza in Rome and an MPhil (2016) from Cambridge. She also served as a studentische Hilfskraft at the KHI (2015).

In addition to her primary research, Chiara has developed a keen interest in digital art history, offering training to students and professionals at the Universities of Exeter (2019–21), Cambridge (as a Cambridge Digital Humanities Data School Methods Fellow, 2020–21), the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Digital Art History Initiative, 2023–), UTIU (2023–) and the University of Düsseldorf (2025). Her work on the Getty-funded ‘Florence 4D’ project (2019–21) involved art-historical research, intern training, and the development of pipelines for research-based 3D modelling, historical data-mapping, and standardisation.

Chiara has also participated in initiatives that assess the effects of recent earthquakes on Central Italy's cultural heritage and the role of art historians in recovery efforts. She joined the AC(H)E project at the KHI to explore digital methodologies for evaluating and reinterpreting sources related to past earthquake damage in L'Aquila, Italy.