Arianna CANDEAGO

Arianna Candeago studied History of the Arts and Conservation of the Artistic Heritage at Ca' Foscari University, focusing on the artistic relations between Venice and the mainland between the 16th and 19th centuries, with particular attention to the province of Belluno.

At the same university she obtained her PhD in History of the Arts cum laude, defending a thesis on the Venetian collector Girolamo Ascanio Molin and the erudite debate in the Veneto area between the 18th and 19th centuries.

She acquired post-doctoral research experience at the Kunstgeschichte Institut of the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main and at the Department of Management of Ca' Foscari, where she developed, as a research fellow, a project on the antiquarian trade at the end of the ancient regimes and the identity values linked to the rediscovery of antiques.

She also worked as a cataloguer at the Fondazione Musei Civici in Venice, after obtaining specific training through courses activated by the Veneto Region and the Fondazione Federico Zeri in Bologna.

During this period, she has presented her research at specialised national and international conferences, organised by the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo Diciottesimo, and the Universities of Bologna, Trieste, Udine, Verona and Venice, among others; and she has shared the results through essays in miscellaneous volumes and articles in scientific journals.

Her main areas of research include Venetian collecting in the 18th and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on the art and antiques market at the time of the fall of the Serenissima; and the phenomena of secular and religious patronage in the Veneto area between the 16th and 18th centuries, examined from an interdisciplinary perspective, strongly indebted to social and economic history.

She is a member of MACLAB – Laboratory of Management of Arts and Culture – of Ca' Foscari University, as well as of the editorial board of the international scientific journal MDCCC1800, recognised by ANVUR as class A in the 10/B1 and 08/E2 areas.