The Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice offers 9 residential scholarships to PhD students and postdoc students – who must not be over 40 years old on June 30, 2025 – interested in spending two consecutive months in Venice at the Vittore Branca International Center for the Study of Italian Culture between January and December 2026.
Candidates shall propose a research topic preferably focused on the archives and documents at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice.
The Institute of Art History seeks to advance projects that pursue knowledge, research and the broadest possible communication of issues pertinent to the field of art history, with emphasis on the art of the Veneto.
Here follow some research guidelines of particular interest:
Vittorio Cini as art collector and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini art collectionsPrisco Bagni’s photographic collection: study, reorganization and inventory
Emilian drawings of architecture, perspective, quadratura and decorations: study and cataloguing of the Antonio Certani collection in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Drawings for the decorative arts in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini collections: study and cataloguing
Landscape drawings: study and cataloguing of the works in Fondazione Giorgio Cini collections
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Emilian and Bolognese figurative drawings: study and cataloguing of the works in the Antonio Certani collection in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Nicolò Cipriani’s “Italian Photo Library” in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: study, reordering, inventorying (and cataloguing) of a section of the photo library
Giuseppe Fiocco’s photographic collection in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: study, reordering, inventorying (and cataloguing) of a section of the collection
Rodolfo Pallucchini’s photo library: study and cataloguing of a section of the photo library
Please note that candidates are invited to contact the Institute (arte@cini.it) to view the collections and archives involved in their chosen research themes.
Download scholarship here
Application deadline: 30 June 2025
Info: centrobranca@cini.it