Phd in HISTORY OF ART

Research:

Giulia Zimei (Rome, 1998) holds a Bachelor’s degree in History, Anthropology, and Religions from the Sapienza University of Rome where she graduated with First-Class Honours in 2019. At the same university, in 2022, she obtained a Master’s degree in History of Art with First-Class Honours, defending her thesis “Art and diplomacy in the Papal State: a hypothesis on the iconography of the ambassador of the Kingdom of Kongo, Antonio Manuel Ne-Vunda” (supervisor: Prof. Francesco Freddolini; co-supervisor: Prof. Massimo Moretti).
In 2019, she collaborated with the Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum on the exhibition, “The Margherita di Savoia Professional Women’s School. The Art of Being a Woman” (November 2019–March 2020). Between 2021 and 2022, she completed a curricular internship at the Presidency of the Italian Republic – Quirinal Palace. In 2022, Zimei was awarded the Erasmus+ Traineeship Scholarship, which allowed her to work in Ghent at the Museum voor Schone Kunsten on the first monograph of “Theodoor Rombouts. Virtuoso of Flemish Caravaggism” (January–April 2023), and the forthcoming exhibition “Stephan Vanfleteren. Transcripts of a Sea” (autumn 2025). Between 2021 and 2023, she also worked at two renowned antique galleries in Rome.
She is currently enrolled in the 40th cycle of the History of Art Ph.D. Programme at the Sapienza University of Rome. Since November 2024, Zimei has been a teaching assistant for the courses of Early Modern Art History (L-ART/02) and European Art and the Global World 1400–1700 (ARTE-01/B).