Research: The taste for furnishing noble residences: function, production, and fortune of Roman fireplaces in the European market and collecting from the 17th to the 19th century
Romana Mastrella (Rome, 1995) earned her bachelor's degree in Historical-Artistic Studies in 2018, defending a thesis in Modern Art History titled "Istoriata Ceramics of the Seventeenth Century in Rome" (supervisor: Prof. Massimo Moretti). In 2021, she graduated with honors from the same university, obtaining a master's degree in Art History. Her master's thesis focused on the collection of pharmacy maiolica of the Monumental Complex of Santo Spirito in Sassia (supervisor: Prof. Massimo Moretti, co-supervisor: Prof. Caterina Volpi). Simultaneously with her university education, from 2018 to 2022, she worked at a prominent antique gallery in Rome. Between March and April 2023, she served as an external consultant at the Hallwyska Museum in Stockholm, contributing to the study and cataloging of the maiolica collection. In May 2023, she was awarded a scholarship from the C.M. Lerici Foundation in Stockholm, allowing her to develop a project on "Italian Renaissance Maiolica in the collection of The Nationalmuseum of Stockholm”. She is currently enrolled in the XXXIX cycle of the Ph.D. program in Art History with a research project titled "The Taste of Furnishing Noble Residences: Function, Production, and Fortune of Roman Fireplaces in the European Market and Collecting from the 17th to the 19th Century".