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Francesca Cappelletti
Francesca Cappelletti (born 1964) is an Italian art history professor known for verifying the authenticity of the Caravaggio painting '' The Taking of Christ'' with Laura Testa while they were students at the University of Rome. Education Cappelletti graduated from the University of Rome and studied at the Warburg Institute in London and the Collège de France in Paris. She is a Professor of Art History at the University of Ferrara. Career Cappelletti, along with Laura Testa, found the first recorded mention of ''The Taking of Christ'' in an ancient and decaying account book documenting the original commission and payments to Caravaggio, in the archives of the Mattei family, kept in the cellar of a palazzo in the small town of Recanati, an archive that is no longer accessible to the public. Testa and Cappelletti were working on a hunch by Caravaggio scholar Roberto Longhi that a painting attributed to Gerard van Honthorst might, in fact, be by Caravaggio. Cappelletti di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Lady Jill Biden
Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden (born June 3, 1951) is an American educator and the current first lady of the United States since 2021, as the wife of President Joe Biden. She was the second lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017 when her husband was vice president. Since 2009, Biden has been a professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College. She has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Delaware, master's degrees in education and English from West Chester University and Villanova University, and returned to the University of Delaware for a doctoral degree in education. She taught English and reading in high schools for thirteen years and instructed adolescents with emotional disabilities at a psychiatric hospital. From 1993 to 2008, Biden was an English and writing instructor at Delaware Technical & Community College. Biden is thought to be the first wife of a vice president or president to hold a paying job during her husband's tenure. Born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
