The Ragghianti Foundation announces a 10,500-euro scholarship

The Fondazione Centro Studi sull’Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti of Lucca, thanks to the contribution of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, is announcing for the fifth consecutive year a scholarship, worth 10,500 euros, aimed at an eight-month research project having as its subject the personality and work of Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti and Licia Collobi.

Applicants for this fifth cycle of the call will have to propose a research project on Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti or Licia Collobi that is preferably related to the archival and photographic fonds held by the Foundation, and dedicated to topics less probed by scholarly production, therefore liable to original discoveries and reflections. The fellowship is intended for Italian and foreign post-docs (provided they have excellent knowledge of the Italian language) who have earned a doctorate in the humanities after March 1, 2016, and who have not yet reached the age of 45 on April 30, 2021.

Applications must be submitted no later than June 21, 2021. The scholarship period is from October 1, 2021 to May 31, 2022. As a result of the Covid-19 outbreak, the start and end dates of the fellowship period are linked to and dependent on the progress of the health situation, on which the possibility of accessing or not accessing the Foundation’s archives depends, which is a prerequisite for the fulfillment of the research and duties of the fellows. The notice and application can be viewed and downloaded at www.fondazioneragghianti.it. Applicants may contact the Foundation’s Center for Art Studies’ archives officers Licia and Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti directly at archivi@fondazioneragghianti.it.

The best research projects completed by previous years’ scholarship winners have been published or will be forthcoming in the series of Quaderni della Fondazione Ragghianti, inaugurated by Giorgia Gastaldon’s (2017-2018 scholarship recipient) book “Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti and the Museo Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea di Firenze: History of a Vision for a City,” followed by Lorenzo Mingardi’s (2018-2019 fellow) “Against Architectural Illiteracy. Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti in the Cultural Debate of the 1950s,” recently edited. Research by two other fellows will be forthcoming: that of Francesco De Carolis, focusing on the cultural association between Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti and the publisher Neri Pozza, and Laura Violi’s monograph on Ragghianti’s contribution to the study of the history of the miniature in Italy. Meanwhile, the work of the current scholars, Manuel Barrese and Alberto Cibin, whose results will be published in 2022, is nearing completion.

As stated by the director of the Foundation, Paolo Bolpagni, and the president, Alberto Fontana, “one of the qualifying points of the Foundation’s activity is the promotion of in-depth initiatives dedicated to art and visual culture, and putting scholarships for deserving young people into competition fully complies with this vocation, especially in a difficult and particular moment such as the one we are living.”

Pictured: the Ragghianti Foundation Archives.

The Ragghianti Foundation announces a 10,500-euro scholarship

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