Main Focus
- Monastic spaces
- Medieval art and architecture
- Liturgical and ritual practices
- Landscape studies
- Medieval textiles and portable objects
Research Project
Beyond Cluny. Reconstructing Cluniac Monastic Spaces in Medieval Venice (11th–13th Centuries)Curriculum Vitae
Chiara Stombellini is a PhD candidate in Art History in a joint doctoral program between Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Université Lumière Lyon 2. Her doctoral research investigates the medieval monasteries of San Cipriano on Murano and Santa Croce in Venice, founded between the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries and linked by their adoption of the Cluniac liturgy.
She previously obtained an MA in Art History and Conservation of Artistic Heritage from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, with a thesis on the role of silk textiles in shaping Venetian cultural and artistic identity between 1250 and 1350, and a BA in Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Performing Arts Management from the same university, with research on the iconography and iconology of licking animals in the sculptural decoration of early medieval churches.
As a pre-doctoral researcher (Fondazione Ursula Nilgen – Hertziana fellowship) at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, she is working on the reconstruction of the architectural spaces of Venetian Cluniac monasteries through a multifocal approach, combining the study of in situ and ex situ remains with the analysis of written and figurative sources.