Forschungsinteressen
- Late-Medieval and
Renaissance artistic patronage
- Sacred space and
devotional practice
- Artistic and social networks
- Neighbourhood and urban space
Forschungsprojekt
A Tale of Two Cities: Mapping Florentine Identity in Early Modern Naples
Vita
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.