Katie Rabogliatti

Katherine (Katie) Rabogliatti is a first year PhD student studying early modern Italian art with Professor Anthony Colantuono. She received her BA in Medieval & Renaissance Studies from Wellesley College in 2021 and her MA from Syracuse University in 2022. Her master’s thesis focused on visual gameplay as self-fashioning in Sofonisba Anguissola’s (ca. 1532-1624) miniature Self-Portrait (ca. 1556). Katherine will continue examining Sofonisba and self-fashioning as a doctoral student. She hopes to conduct archival research that will expand our knowledge of Sofonisba’s later life and career, as well as shedding a critical light on gender and self-presentation in southern Italy.   

Katherine is particularly interested in combining her art historical analyses with archival research. She has worked closely with members of the Medici Archive Project where she initiated the digitization and transcription of Cristofano Bronzini’s Della dignità et nobilità delle donne (ca. 1622). This multivolume manuscript documenting the lives of famous European, Asian, and African women is a striking testament to the profound interest in women’s history and the querelle des femmes in seventeenth-century Italy. Katherine continues to serve as a member of The Digital Bronzini advisory committee, working alongside MAP fellows and staff using digital transcript (HTR) technologies to make the 12,000-page manuscript widely accessible.