Main Focus
- Late-Medieval and Renaissance artistic patronage
- Sacred space and devotional practice
- Artistic and social networks
- Neighbourhood and urban space
Research Project
A Tale of Two Cities: Mapping Florentine Identity in Early Modern Naples
Curriculum Vitae
Michela Young is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department Michalsky at the Biblioteca Hertziana. She obtained her PhD in History of Art at the University of Cambridge in 2025, supervised by Dr. Donal Cooper and supported by pre-doctoral fellowships at the Dutch Institute for Art History in Florence and the Medici Archive Project. She previously completed her BA in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art and her MPhil at Cambridge. Her doctoral thesis examined artistic patronage at the Florentine urban churches of the Vallombrosan congregation, Santa Trinita and San Pancrazio, during the Late-Medieval and Renaissance periods, exploring how social networks, neighbourhood, ritual, and identity shaped the devotional interior.