ANGELAMARIA ACETO

Contact
Email: angelamaria.aceto@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

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Biography

Angelamaria Aceto is Senior Researcher in Italian Drawings at the Ashmolean Museum, where she serves as Principal Investigator on a research project dedicated to the publication of the first detailed catalogue of the drawings by Raphael and his school in the Museum’s collection Drawings by Raphael and his School at the Ashmolean Museum | Ashmolean Museum.

Since 2016, she has held a number of research positions at the Ashmolean Museum. She began as a Research Assistant on a Leverhulme Trust–funded project devoted to Raphael and eloquence in drawing, which culminated in the critically-acclaimed exhibition Raphael: The Drawings (2017). In 2018, she curated the exhibition In the Footsteps of Raphael: Drawings from the Royal Library of Turin (Biblioteca Reale, Musei Reali Torino). From 2018 to 2022, she worked as a Researcher on a major project leading to the online publication of a catalogue of the Museum’s outstanding collection of Italian drawings Italian drawings of the Museum.

Angelamaria is a member of the editorial committee of the international journal L’IDEA Home | L'IDEA

She regularly collaborates with national and international higher education institutions and museums, delivering lectures and talks and contributing to international exhibitions.

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Research

Angelamaria’s research focuses on the material culture of Early Modern Italy, and she has published widely in the field.

Her research and curatorial activities are object-led and address a wide-ranging set of topics, including the intersections between sculpture, painting, and architecture; the role of patronage in shaping works of art; the functions, uses, and materiality of works on paper; questions of connoisseurship and the history of collecting; the significance of early photography as documentary and archival evidence; and the application of non-invasive scientific methods in art-historical research.

Teaching

Angelamaria collaborates with the History Faculty, University of Oxford, in delivering curriculum teaching for 3^rd year BA history and art history students on the Art Special Subject dedicated to Florence and Venice in the Renaissance.