Maria Raffaela Robustelli, M.A.
Project Collaborator, Department de Divitiis
Maria Raffaela Robustelli is a project collaborator in Department de Divitiis Contexts, Communities, Connections. New Narratives in History of Art.
She received her MA (Hons) degree in Art History and Archaeology from Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II in july 2025. Her thesis, The Expedition of Charles VIII (1470 – 1498) in Naples: Art, Architecture and Patronage between Naples and France, examined cultural exchanges and artistic patronage between Southern Italy and the Loire Valley. In the academic year 2024/2025 she was awarded an Erasmus scholarship to conduct research at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris.
Her research interests also extend to museology and were developed through internships at the Soprintendenza ABAP for the City of Naples and at the Museum of Capodimonte, and by participating in the seminar organized with the École du Louvre, Antiqua: Lire et transmettre le passé. Archéologie et Muséologie, held between Naples and Paris.
- Artistic and cultural exchanges between the Kingdom of Naples and European courts in the 15th century
- Art history and visual culture in southern Italy in the early modern period
- Late Medieval and Renaissance artistic patronage
- Reception of the classics and antiquarianism in the early modern period
- Art, architecture, and visual culture in the early modern period
- Transnational and transcultural art history
- Iconography and iconology
- Curatorial practices and museology
- Art historiography