Members' Research Report Archive

My research project focuses on the Boncompagni Corcos family’s history of conversion from Judaism to Catholicism in Rome during the early modern period. It explores, through a multidisciplinary approach, the relationship between art and conversion, particularly as concerns neophytes who adopted patronage as a means to legitimize their new status and religious identity. At a conference at the University of Malta I presented the results of my preliminary research on the Boncompagni Corcos’ affiliation with the family of the Bolognese Pope Gregory XIII Boncompagni and their taste for Emilian art. In addition, I produced an article on the Bolognese painter Giovan Giacomo Sementi and took part in an international conference organized by the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa with a paper entitled “From Documents to Maps: New Digital Perspectives on the Early History of the Accademia di San Luca.”