1987 Degree in the History of Modern Art at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, dissertation: Il catino absidale nella chiesa di S. Croce in Gerusalemme. Studio del tema, datazione, ipotesi attributiva. Mark: 110/110 e la lode, tutor: prof. Maurizio Calvesi.
1988 Grant of the Accademia di S. Luca (Rome), for research at the Warburg Institute (London)
Editing of the series of art-historical guides “A Roma”, Rotundo Editore.
Cooperation with the Soprintendenza ai Beni Artistici e Storici di Roma
1988-89 Studies at the “Scuola di Specializzazione in Storia dell’Arte Medioevale e Moderna”, University of Rome La Sapienza.
Cooperation to a project for the cataloguing of ovidian myths, directed by the Prof. Claudia Cieri Via (University of Rome) “La Sapienza”, and financed by the CNR.
1989-90 Visiting student at the Warburg Institute (London), with a grant financed by the Accademia dei Lincei and the British Academy. Research results publicated in papers held at following international conferences: Die rezeption der Metamorphosen des Ovid in der Neuzeit, Bad Homburg 22-25 april 1991; Die Allegorese des antiken Mythos in der Literatur, Wissenschaft und Kunst Europas, 31. Wolfenbütteler Symposion, 28 september -1 october 1991; Il mito antico e le letterature europee, Villa Vigoni, 2-5 march 1992.
1990 Grant of the Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione, for studying at the chair of prof. Marc Fumaroli, Collège de France, Paris.
Essay in the catalogue Identificazione di un Caravaggio, Rome, Musei Capitolini.
1991 Seminar for the chair of History of Modern Art at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” on the presence of Caravaggio’s and caravaggesque paintings in roman collections, in relationship with the art literature (Title: Committenza e collezionismo a Roma nei primi trent’anni del Seicento).
Research at the Warburg Institute and at the Courtauld Institute of the London University, with a travel grant given by the CNR for the period 1991-1992.
Editing of the catalogue Fasto romano. Dipinti, sculture e arredi dai palazzi di Roma, Roma, palazzo Sacchetti.
1992 Specialization degree in The History of Medieval and Modern Art at the University of Rome La Sapienza, with the dissertation: Il collezionismo di Asdrubale Mattei: un esempio di committenza romana nel primo trentennio del Seicento. mark: 70/70 e la lode, tutor prof. Maurizio Calvesi.
Starting PhD research, with a dissertation on Paul Bril and his role for the beginning of landscape painting also in the building decoration and exhibiting patterns.
1993 Travel grant at the Bildarchiv of the Marburg University and at the Seminar für Klassische Philologie of the Mannheim University, financed by the CNR and the Rheimers Stiftung, in order to editing the proceedings of the conference Il mito antico e le letterature europee, Villa Vigoni, 2-5 march 1992.
Lectures at conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad (Caravaggio rediscovered, Dublino, National Gallery of Ireland, 1993; Musica e poesia in galleria, Roma, Galleria Doria Pamphilj, 1993-94).
Publication of several essays on the Mattei and Aldobrandini collections.
1994 Travel grant of the Accademia dei Lincei for a research journey at the Courtauld Institute of the London University.
Travel grant of the CNR for a journey at Paris, Collège de France e Centre de documentation du Louvre. Journey in the Netherland, Leiden, Lakenhal e the Hague, R.K.D.
Publication of a book on the Mattei collection.
1995 Ph.D. Degree, with the dissertation: Paul Bril e la pittura di paesaggio a Roma 1580-1626.
Scientific Board for the exhibition Caravaggio e la collezione Mattei, Roma, Palazzo Barberini.
Stay as Frances Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute, in May and June, by taking part at the Director’s seminars.
Collaboration for the catalogue Pinacoteca di Brera. Le scuole straniere.
1995-1996 “Professore a contratto” art. 25 (Adjunct Professor), chair “ Storia dell’Arte Fiamminga e Olandese”, at “Università di Roma La Sapienza”, on the landascape painting in Rome at the beginning of 17th century: Flemish painters in Rome.
1996 Conferences and seminars (Londra, National Gallery, 27 e 29 aprile: Criteri di scelta e di allestimento delle opere nella storia della Galleria Doria Pamphilj; Rome, “Scuola di Specializzazione in Storia dell’Arte Medievale e Moderna”, 17 maggio: Francesco Nicoletti fra progetto e catalogo figurato).
Members of the Scientific Board for the exhibition: Dipinti fiamminghi e olandesi della Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Genova 1996.
Post-doc Scholarship in the field: “Pittura e scultura dal Medioevo al XX secolo” (Painting and Sculpture from the Medieval Age to the 20th century), “Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Roma La Sapienza”.
Organisation of the new settlement of the Galleria Doria Pamphilj di Roma.
1997 “Professore a contratto” ex art. 100 (Adjunct Professor), course “Iconografia e Iconologia”, “Dams, Università della Calabria”. In the same year: course of “Iconografia e Iconologia” at the “Scuola dell’Istituto Centrale per il Restauro”.
1997-1998 “Professore a contratto” ex art. 100 (Adjunct Professor), course “Iconografia e Iconologia”, “Dams, Università della Calabria”, for the second year.
Conferences and seminars: Malta, Museum of Fine Arts; Università di Roma III, Dipartimento di Studi Storici; Università di Genova, Scuola di Specializzazione in Storia dell’Arte; Torino, Unione Industriali; Firenze, Villa Spelman, Convegno Internazionale The Art of Diplomacy.
Course at the Laboratorio di Restauro, Provincia di Viterbo on La pittura del Sei e del Settecento nel territorio viterbese.
Holder of the permanent position as “ funzionario storico dell’arte”, “Soprintendenze ai Beni Artistici e Storici”.
Member of the Scientific Board for the exhibition: Le virtù e i piaceri in villa, Roma, ottobre-dicembre 1998.
Holder of the research scholarship” “Artisti attivi in Piemonte”, 1998, Compagnia di San Paolo, Torino. Project: Daniel Seiter fra Roma e Torino.
1998-1999 “Professore a contratto” ex art. 100 (Adjunct Professor), course “Iconografia e Iconologia”, “Dams, Università della Calabria”, for the third year.
Participation in the catalogues for the exhibitions on Alessandro Algardi (Rome) and Mattia Preti (Catanzaro).
1999-2000 Member of the Scientific Board of the “ Comitato Nazionale per le Celebrazioni del Quadricentenario della Cappella Contarelli”, with the position of “funzionario tesoriere”.
2000 Holder of the “Idoneità di professore associato” (Associate Professor) at Università della Calabria, field L ART 02 (Storia dell’Arte Moderna). Associate Professor (Storia dell’Arte Moderna) the same year at’Università degli Studi di Ferrara (A. Y. 2000/2001).
2001 Participation as a Member of the Scientific Board and to the catalogues of the following eshibition: The Genius of Rome, Royal Academy di Londra, 2001 and Caravaggio e i Giustiniani. Toccar con mano una collezione del Seicento, Roma-Berlino; conferences for the following congresses: Dosso Dossi e i Camerini di Alfonso I, Università di Padova, May 2001; Caravaggio nel quarto centenario della Cappella Contarelli, Roma, Accademia dei Lincei.
2002 Member of the Scientific Board for the restoration of the Este Castle, Ferrara; head of the unit “Arti, Musica e Spettacolo”, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Università di Ferrara; promotor of the research scholarships (“assegni di ricerca”) in the same Department. Publication of the book on Daniel Seiter.
2003 Participation at the congress Cultura nell’età delle Legazioni, Ferrara, March 2003; editor of the book Decorazione e collezionismo a Roma nel Seicento.
2004 Participation at the congress on the Age of Gregorio XIII organized by the American Academy and the Università La Sapienza, Rome; lecture at the British School of Rome on the naturalism in the landscape painting of 17th century; participation at the congress on the Age of Rubens organised by the Accademia Belgica of Rome; organisation of the international congress Alle origini del paesaggio italiano, Ferrara, October 2004; in the same year member of the Scientific Board for the exhibitions on the Este Court, Ferrara.
2005 Member of the Scientific Board for the exhibition Siena e Roma, da Raffaello a Caravaggio; member of the editorial board of the review “Annali dell’Università di Ferrara”; Conference in Madrid, Museo del Prado, on La pittura di paesaggio nell’opera di Annibale Carracci.
2006 Publication of the monograph on Paul Bril.
2007 She is the co-director of the Scientific Board of the “Fondazione Ermitage Italia”; publication of an essay in the catalogue of the exhibition La collezione di Mario Scaglia, Milano, Museo Poldi Pezzoli.
2007 She is co-director of the Fondazione Ermitage Italia.
2008 she participates with a paper to the International Conference Simon Vouet, Université de Nantes.
She organizes in Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, the international Conference Le tentazioni dell'Ermitage.
2009 She is invitated to give papers to the following international conferences: Paris, Ecole du Louvre; Paris, Istituto Italiano di Cultura; American Academy of Rome.
2010 She is member of the Comitato Scientifico dell'Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali, Ferrara; she is member of the Scientific Committee of the Laboratorio Teknehub dell'Università di Ferrara; she is invited to give a paper at the International Conference Display in Roman Baroque Palaces, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
She is invited to lecture at Roma, La Sapienza; Roma, Università di Roma Tor Vergata; Genova, Museo di Palazzo Rosso e università degli Studi; Paris, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Stockolm, istituto Italiano di Cultura.
She coordinates the Università di Ferrara unit research, in the funded Prin 2009.
2011 She is curator of the exhibition Nature et Idéal. Le paysage a Rome 1600-1650, Paris, Grand Palais-Madrid, Prado.
Partecipates with a paper at the panel Display in Baroque Ages at the RSA Annual Meeting at Montreal.
She is Project Researcher at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. She partecipates at the first edition of the Festival de l'Histoire de l'Art de Fontainebleau, organized by INHA (Institut National de l'Histoire de l'Art)
2012 She is Project Researcher at the Getty Research Institute di Los Angeles, for the construction of the scholars' web workspace The inventory of Pietro Mellini.
She is elected member of the Italian Consiglio Superiore dei Beni Culturali at the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiBACT).
2013 She is project researcher at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; she is invited to lecture at London, Istituto italiano di cultura, Caravaggio and his Roman patrons.
She attends the publication of the results of the research project on Collecting in ferrara in the XVII century
2014 She is co-curator of the exhibition Bassifondi del Barocco, Accademia di Francia a Roma-Villa Medici Petit Palais, Paris. She is the president of the International Conference La storia e le immagini della storia, Ferrara 2014. She contributes to the book Display in Roman Baroque Palaces, ed. Gail Feigenbaum, Getty Research Institute 2014.
She is panel organizer at RSA New York, title: Le Belle: portraits of beautiful women: origins, places, and implications I; Le Belle: portraits of beautiful women: origins, places, and implications II; organizzatori: Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli, Rutgers University; Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara; paper title: Rooms of Venuses in Roman Baroque Collections: The Beautiful Goddesses and the Beautiful Women, in Le Belle: portraits of beautiful women: origins, places, and implications II; organisers: Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli, Rutgers University; Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
2014 key personnel in the european project "INCEPTION. Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling” funded Horizon 2020 - Work Programme Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective societies, della Reflective-7-2014, Advanced 3D modelling for accessing and understanding European cultural assets.
2015 Panel organizer at RSA Berlin Ferrara I: People and Places in Renaissance Ferrara; organizzatori: Maddalena Bellavitis, Università di Padova; Francesca Cappelletti, Universita degli Studi di Ferrara
Ferrara II: Cultural Life and the Image of the Court: Artists, Collectors, Art Theory; organizzatori: Maddalena Bellavitis, Università di Padova; Francesca Cappelletti, Universita degli Studi di Ferrara
2015 She is invited to give a paper at the International Conference “Caravaggio and the Northern European Painting” organized by Niki Florence.
She is guest researcher at the GRI (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Digital Humanities study group).
She lectures at the INHA, Paris, on Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi.
2015 She is part of the Scientific Commitee of the Galleria Borghese
2016 She participates at the Conference RSA– Boston, 31 marzo – 2 aprile 2016, panel title:Making Copies I; organizers: Maddalena Bellavitis, University of Pennsylvania; Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
o Making Copies II; organisers: Maddalena Bellavitis, University of Pennsylvania; Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
o Making Copies III; organisers: Maddalena Bellavitis, University of Pennsylvania; Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
She contributes to the catalogue Caravaggio y los pintores del Norte, Madrid, Fondazione Thyssen.
She is invited to lecture at the International Conference BEYOND CARAVAGGIO. AN ACADEMIC CONFERENCE ABOUT CARAVAGGIO AND HIS LEGACY, Sainsbury Wing Lecture Theatre, National Gallery, London17-18 novembre. Titolo dell’intervento: ‘Caravaggio's Patrons in Rome: Friends and Collectors of a Painter “stravagantissimo”.
MUSE Award, American Alliance of Museums, for the project “Pietro Mellini’s Digital inventory in verse, 1681” published by the Getty Research Institute.
2017 She organizes a panel at RSA Chicago, 31 march – 1 april 2017, panel title:
Atlante’s Palace: Culture, Enchantment, and Politics in European Palaces, 1600–1700 I: Images and Materials; organizers: Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara; Francesco Freddolini, Luther College, University of Regina
Atlante’s Palace: Culture, Enchantment, and Politics in European Palaces, 1600–1700 II: Madrid, Lisbon, and Naples; organizers: Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara; Francesco Freddolini, Luther College, University of Regina
Atlante’s Palace: Culture, Enchantment, and Politics in European Palaces, 1600–1700 III: Rome and London; organizers: Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara; Francesco Freddolini, Luther College, University of Regina
-paper: Looking at Paintings and Talking about Them: The Art of Conversation in Baroque Rome all’interno del panel Atlante’s Palace: Culture, Enchantment, and Politics in European Palaces, 1600–1700 III: Rome and London; organizers: Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara; Francesco Freddolini, Luther College, University of Regina
She is co-curator of the exhibition: Carlo Bononi. L'ultimo sognatore dell'Officina ferrarese, Ferrara, October 2017-January2018.
1988 Grant of the Accademia di S. Luca (Rome), for research at the Warburg Institute (London)
Editing of the series of art-historical guides “A Roma”, Rotundo Editore.
Cooperation with the Soprintendenza ai Beni Artistici e Storici di Roma
1988-89 Studies at the “Scuola di Specializzazione in Storia dell’Arte Medioevale e Moderna”, University of Rome La Sapienza.
Cooperation to a project for the cataloguing of ovidian myths, directed by the Prof. Claudia Cieri Via (University of Rome) “La Sapienza”, and financed by the CNR.
1989-90 Visiting student at the Warburg Institute (London), with a grant financed by the Accademia dei Lincei and the British Academy. Research results publicated in papers held at following international conferences: Die rezeption der Metamorphosen des Ovid in der Neuzeit, Bad Homburg 22-25 april 1991; Die Allegorese des antiken Mythos in der Literatur, Wissenschaft und Kunst Europas, 31. Wolfenbütteler Symposion, 28 september -1 october 1991; Il mito antico e le letterature europee, Villa Vigoni, 2-5 march 1992.
1990 Grant of the Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione, for studying at the chair of prof. Marc Fumaroli, Collège de France, Paris.
Essay in the catalogue Identificazione di un Caravaggio, Rome, Musei Capitolini.
1991 Seminar for the chair of History of Modern Art at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” on the presence of Caravaggio’s and caravaggesque paintings in roman collections, in relationship with the art literature (Title: Committenza e collezionismo a Roma nei primi trent’anni del Seicento).
Research at the Warburg Institute and at the Courtauld Institute of the London University, with a travel grant given by the CNR for the period 1991-1992.
Editing of the catalogue Fasto romano. Dipinti, sculture e arredi dai palazzi di Roma, Roma, palazzo Sacchetti.
1992 Specialization degree in The History of Medieval and Modern Art at the University of Rome La Sapienza, with the dissertation: Il collezionismo di Asdrubale Mattei: un esempio di committenza romana nel primo trentennio del Seicento. mark: 70/70 e la lode, tutor prof. Maurizio Calvesi.
Starting PhD research, with a dissertation on Paul Bril and his role for the beginning of landscape painting also in the building decoration and exhibiting patterns.
1993 Travel grant at the Bildarchiv of the Marburg University and at the Seminar für Klassische Philologie of the Mannheim University, financed by the CNR and the Rheimers Stiftung, in order to editing the proceedings of the conference Il mito antico e le letterature europee, Villa Vigoni, 2-5 march 1992.
Lectures at conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad (Caravaggio rediscovered, Dublino, National Gallery of Ireland, 1993; Musica e poesia in galleria, Roma, Galleria Doria Pamphilj, 1993-94).
Publication of several essays on the Mattei and Aldobrandini collections.
1994 Travel grant of the Accademia dei Lincei for a research journey at the Courtauld Institute of the London University.
Travel grant of the CNR for a journey at Paris, Collège de France e Centre de documentation du Louvre. Journey in the Netherland, Leiden, Lakenhal e the Hague, R.K.D.
Publication of a book on the Mattei collection.
1995 Ph.D. Degree, with the dissertation: Paul Bril e la pittura di paesaggio a Roma 1580-1626.
Scientific Board for the exhibition Caravaggio e la collezione Mattei, Roma, Palazzo Barberini.
Stay as Frances Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute, in May and June, by taking part at the Director’s seminars.
Collaboration for the catalogue Pinacoteca di Brera. Le scuole straniere.
1995-1996 “Professore a contratto” art. 25 (Adjunct Professor), chair “ Storia dell’Arte Fiamminga e Olandese”, at “Università di Roma La Sapienza”, on the landascape painting in Rome at the beginning of 17th century: Flemish painters in Rome.
1996 Conferences and seminars (Londra, National Gallery, 27 e 29 aprile: Criteri di scelta e di allestimento delle opere nella storia della Galleria Doria Pamphilj; Rome, “Scuola di Specializzazione in Storia dell’Arte Medievale e Moderna”, 17 maggio: Francesco Nicoletti fra progetto e catalogo figurato).
Members of the Scientific Board for the exhibition: Dipinti fiamminghi e olandesi della Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Genova 1996.
Post-doc Scholarship in the field: “Pittura e scultura dal Medioevo al XX secolo” (Painting and Sculpture from the Medieval Age to the 20th century), “Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Roma La Sapienza”.
Organisation of the new settlement of the Galleria Doria Pamphilj di Roma.
1997 “Professore a contratto” ex art. 100 (Adjunct Professor), course “Iconografia e Iconologia”, “Dams, Università della Calabria”. In the same year: course of “Iconografia e Iconologia” at the “Scuola dell’Istituto Centrale per il Restauro”.
1997-1998 “Professore a contratto” ex art. 100 (Adjunct Professor), course “Iconografia e Iconologia”, “Dams, Università della Calabria”, for the second year.
Conferences and seminars: Malta, Museum of Fine Arts; Università di Roma III, Dipartimento di Studi Storici; Università di Genova, Scuola di Specializzazione in Storia dell’Arte; Torino, Unione Industriali; Firenze, Villa Spelman, Convegno Internazionale The Art of Diplomacy.
Course at the Laboratorio di Restauro, Provincia di Viterbo on La pittura del Sei e del Settecento nel territorio viterbese.
Holder of the permanent position as “ funzionario storico dell’arte”, “Soprintendenze ai Beni Artistici e Storici”.
Member of the Scientific Board for the exhibition: Le virtù e i piaceri in villa, Roma, ottobre-dicembre 1998.
Holder of the research scholarship” “Artisti attivi in Piemonte”, 1998, Compagnia di San Paolo, Torino. Project: Daniel Seiter fra Roma e Torino.
1998-1999 “Professore a contratto” ex art. 100 (Adjunct Professor), course “Iconografia e Iconologia”, “Dams, Università della Calabria”, for the third year.
Participation in the catalogues for the exhibitions on Alessandro Algardi (Rome) and Mattia Preti (Catanzaro).
1999-2000 Member of the Scientific Board of the “ Comitato Nazionale per le Celebrazioni del Quadricentenario della Cappella Contarelli”, with the position of “funzionario tesoriere”.
2000 Holder of the “Idoneità di professore associato” (Associate Professor) at Università della Calabria, field L ART 02 (Storia dell’Arte Moderna). Associate Professor (Storia dell’Arte Moderna) the same year at’Università degli Studi di Ferrara (A. Y. 2000/2001).
2001 Participation as a Member of the Scientific Board and to the catalogues of the following eshibition: The Genius of Rome, Royal Academy di Londra, 2001 and Caravaggio e i Giustiniani. Toccar con mano una collezione del Seicento, Roma-Berlino; conferences for the following congresses: Dosso Dossi e i Camerini di Alfonso I, Università di Padova, May 2001; Caravaggio nel quarto centenario della Cappella Contarelli, Roma, Accademia dei Lincei.
2002 Member of the Scientific Board for the restoration of the Este Castle, Ferrara; head of the unit “Arti, Musica e Spettacolo”, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Università di Ferrara; promotor of the research scholarships (“assegni di ricerca”) in the same Department. Publication of the book on Daniel Seiter.
2003 Participation at the congress Cultura nell’età delle Legazioni, Ferrara, March 2003; editor of the book Decorazione e collezionismo a Roma nel Seicento.
2004 Participation at the congress on the Age of Gregorio XIII organized by the American Academy and the Università La Sapienza, Rome; lecture at the British School of Rome on the naturalism in the landscape painting of 17th century; participation at the congress on the Age of Rubens organised by the Accademia Belgica of Rome; organisation of the international congress Alle origini del paesaggio italiano, Ferrara, October 2004; in the same year member of the Scientific Board for the exhibitions on the Este Court, Ferrara.
2005 Member of the Scientific Board for the exhibition Siena e Roma, da Raffaello a Caravaggio; member of the editorial board of the review “Annali dell’Università di Ferrara”; Conference in Madrid, Museo del Prado, on La pittura di paesaggio nell’opera di Annibale Carracci.
2006 Publication of the monograph on Paul Bril.
2007 She is the co-director of the Scientific Board of the “Fondazione Ermitage Italia”; publication of an essay in the catalogue of the exhibition La collezione di Mario Scaglia, Milano, Museo Poldi Pezzoli.
2007 She is co-director of the Fondazione Ermitage Italia.
2008 she participates with a paper to the International Conference Simon Vouet, Université de Nantes.
She organizes in Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, the international Conference Le tentazioni dell'Ermitage.
2009 She is invitated to give papers to the following international conferences: Paris, Ecole du Louvre; Paris, Istituto Italiano di Cultura; American Academy of Rome.
2010 She is member of the Comitato Scientifico dell'Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali, Ferrara; she is member of the Scientific Committee of the Laboratorio Teknehub dell'Università di Ferrara; she is invited to give a paper at the International Conference Display in Roman Baroque Palaces, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
She is invited to lecture at Roma, La Sapienza; Roma, Università di Roma Tor Vergata; Genova, Museo di Palazzo Rosso e università degli Studi; Paris, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Stockolm, istituto Italiano di Cultura.
She coordinates the Università di Ferrara unit research, in the funded Prin 2009.
2011 She is curator of the exhibition Nature et Idéal. Le paysage a Rome 1600-1650, Paris, Grand Palais-Madrid, Prado.
Partecipates with a paper at the panel Display in Baroque Ages at the RSA Annual Meeting at Montreal.
She is Project Researcher at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. She partecipates at the first edition of the Festival de l'Histoire de l'Art de Fontainebleau, organized by INHA (Institut National de l'Histoire de l'Art)
2012 She is Project Researcher at the Getty Research Institute di Los Angeles, for the construction of the scholars' web workspace The inventory of Pietro Mellini.
She is elected member of the Italian Consiglio Superiore dei Beni Culturali at the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiBACT).
2013 She is project researcher at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; she is invited to lecture at London, Istituto italiano di cultura, Caravaggio and his Roman patrons.
She attends the publication of the results of the research project on Collecting in ferrara in the XVII century
2014 She is co-curator of the exhibition Bassifondi del Barocco, Accademia di Francia a Roma-Villa Medici Petit Palais, Paris. She is the president of the International Conference La storia e le immagini della storia, Ferrara 2014. She contributes to the book Display in Roman Baroque Palaces, ed. Gail Feigenbaum, Getty Research Institute 2014.
She is panel organizer at RSA New York, title: Le Belle: portraits of beautiful women: origins, places, and implications I; Le Belle: portraits of beautiful women: origins, places, and implications II; organizzatori: Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli, Rutgers University; Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara; paper title: Rooms of Venuses in Roman Baroque Collections: The Beautiful Goddesses and the Beautiful Women, in Le Belle: portraits of beautiful women: origins, places, and implications II; organisers: Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli, Rutgers University; Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
2014 key personnel in the european project "INCEPTION. Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling” funded Horizon 2020 - Work Programme Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective societies, della Reflective-7-2014, Advanced 3D modelling for accessing and understanding European cultural assets.
2015 Panel organizer at RSA Berlin Ferrara I: People and Places in Renaissance Ferrara; organizzatori: Maddalena Bellavitis, Università di Padova; Francesca Cappelletti, Universita degli Studi di Ferrara
Ferrara II: Cultural Life and the Image of the Court: Artists, Collectors, Art Theory; organizzatori: Maddalena Bellavitis, Università di Padova; Francesca Cappelletti, Universita degli Studi di Ferrara
2015 She is invited to give a paper at the International Conference “Caravaggio and the Northern European Painting” organized by Niki Florence.
She is guest researcher at the GRI (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Digital Humanities study group).
She lectures at the INHA, Paris, on Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi.
2015 She is part of the Scientific Commitee of the Galleria Borghese
2016 She participates at the Conference RSA– Boston, 31 marzo – 2 aprile 2016, panel title:Making Copies I; organizers: Maddalena Bellavitis, University of Pennsylvania; Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
o Making Copies II; organisers: Maddalena Bellavitis, University of Pennsylvania; Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
o Making Copies III; organisers: Maddalena Bellavitis, University of Pennsylvania; Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
She contributes to the catalogue Caravaggio y los pintores del Norte, Madrid, Fondazione Thyssen.
She is invited to lecture at the International Conference BEYOND CARAVAGGIO. AN ACADEMIC CONFERENCE ABOUT CARAVAGGIO AND HIS LEGACY, Sainsbury Wing Lecture Theatre, National Gallery, London17-18 novembre. Titolo dell’intervento: ‘Caravaggio's Patrons in Rome: Friends and Collectors of a Painter “stravagantissimo”.
MUSE Award, American Alliance of Museums, for the project “Pietro Mellini’s Digital inventory in verse, 1681” published by the Getty Research Institute.
2017 She organizes a panel at RSA Chicago, 31 march – 1 april 2017, panel title:
Atlante’s Palace: Culture, Enchantment, and Politics in European Palaces, 1600–1700 I: Images and Materials; organizers: Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara; Francesco Freddolini, Luther College, University of Regina
Atlante’s Palace: Culture, Enchantment, and Politics in European Palaces, 1600–1700 II: Madrid, Lisbon, and Naples; organizers: Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara; Francesco Freddolini, Luther College, University of Regina
Atlante’s Palace: Culture, Enchantment, and Politics in European Palaces, 1600–1700 III: Rome and London; organizers: Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara; Francesco Freddolini, Luther College, University of Regina
-paper: Looking at Paintings and Talking about Them: The Art of Conversation in Baroque Rome all’interno del panel Atlante’s Palace: Culture, Enchantment, and Politics in European Palaces, 1600–1700 III: Rome and London; organizers: Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara; Francesco Freddolini, Luther College, University of Regina
She is co-curator of the exhibition: Carlo Bononi. L'ultimo sognatore dell'Officina ferrarese, Ferrara, October 2017-January2018.
