Giulia Simonini, Ph.D.

Giulia Simonini is Postdoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – MPI für Kunstgeschichte, in the Max Planck Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions” working on iridescence in natural history drawings. She is an historian of science (Ph.D. in Berlin) and art (M.A. in Berlin and Krakow) and a graduate conservator (B.A. in Bologna and Potsdam). She obtained her Ph.D. in the history of science in 2021 with a research project on color charts in eighteenth century at the Technische Universität Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle, which is now a book (arthistoricum.net, 2025). From 2021 until 2025, she has worked as a Postdoctoral research in the project Dimensions of techne in the fine arts led by Prof. Dr. Magdalena Bushart (TU Berlin, https://techne.hypotheses.org/ ).

Her research focuses on the intersection of art and science especially for what concerns the historical understanding of colour, the significance of natural history illustrations and the role that investigation of colour and nature had in the development of scientific and artistic knowledge during the early modern period.