Martina A. D'Amato

CV

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (in progress), Bard Graduate Center, projected 2026

  • Dissertation: The Past Politicized: Medieval and Renaissance Art Collections and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century France and Italy; Advisor: Professor Deborah L. Krohn

Master of Philosophy, Bard Graduate Center, 2017

Master of Arts, Bard Graduate Center, 2012

  • Thesis: “Un veritable musée”: The Chabrières-Arlès Collection & French Renaissance Decorative Arts

Bachelor of Arts, New York University, 2009

Selected Experience

  • Managing Director, Cora Ginsburg LLC, 2015–present
  • Appraiser, US Antiques Roadshow, 2022–present
  • Curatorial Fellow, Bard Graduate Center, 2013–2016
  • Curatorial Intern, The Frick Collection, 2011–2012

Conferences

  • “From ‘bizarre’ bodice to book: Repurposing European dress silks in Ethiopian manuscripts,” Textiles in Ethiopian Manuscripts Colloquium, Massey College at the University of Toronto, October 3, 2025.
  • “‘Woven with a hand … of heavenly creatures’?: European silks in Ethiopia and their use in manuscripts, ca. 1400–1800,” New Directions in the Study of Historical Textiles, CIETA, in coordination with the Museo del Traje, Madrid, September 23–26, 2025.
  • Three Centuries of Europe’s ‘Clouded’ Ikat Textiles, ca. 1650–1950,” The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, in coordination with the Costume Society of America, Washington, D.C., May 23, 2024.
  • “Art by the Yard all’Italiana: Marketing Italy’s Modern and Postmodern Textiles in North America, ca. 1950–2020,” Promoting the Made in Italy Brand: 1948–1960. Histories of Italian craft and design for the 21st century, Politecnico di Milano, May 16–18, 2023.
  • “Novelties in Pigment and Thread: 18th-Century Chinoiserie Silks and Their Afterlives,” Across Time and Space: The Silk Road and the Silk City, William Paterson University Galleries, Wayne, New Jersey, October 26–27, 2022.
  • “Repurposing the Renaissance for the Third Republic: Interior Decoration, Patriotism, and the Marchioness Arconati-Visconti,” The Resonances of Renaissance Objects, Renaissance Society of America Virtual Conference, April 13, 2021 (as Co-Chair/Organizer and Speaker).
  • “Cultural Counterplay between Lyon and Florence : Louis Carrand, Renaissance Arts and the Bargello Bequest,” Florence, ville d’art, et les Français : la création d’un mythe, Centre André Chastel, Villa Finaly, Florence, Italy, September 18–20, 2019.
  • “The Italian ‘Coefficient’?: Challenging Italy’s Influence on France’s Artistic Past,” A Symposium on the History of Art, The Frick Collection, New York, April 5–6, 2019.
  • “A French Collection, a Collection of France: the Case of the Marquise Arconati-Visconti,” Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities, Euroacademia, Florence, June 22–23, 2017.
  • “La collectionneuse: Gendering Renaissance Art Collecting in Nineteenth-Century Paris: The Case of the Marquise Arconati-Visconti.” Gendering Museum Histories. Museums & Galleries History, Ashmolean, Oxford, September 7–8, 2016.
  • “Georges Hoentschel as a Collector of Asian Art.” Material Cultures / Material Worlds. Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. Boston, March 27, 2015.
  • “The Chabrières-Arlès Collection and Renaissance Furniture in France and America, 1875-1935.” British and Continental Furniture and Interiors, 1600-1930. Furniture History Society, hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, February 3, 2014.

Selected Exhibitions

  • Curator: Wild Parade: Grotesquerie since the Middle Ages, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, March 6–11, 2019; co-curated with Elizabeth Fodde-Reguer, Gemini G.E.L.
  • Curatorial Fellow: Design by the Book: Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli tu, curated by François Louis, Bard Graduate Center, New York, March 24–July 30, 2017.
  • Curator: Urformen: Archetypes in Graphite and Clay, Uh Huh, New York, September 18–October 4, 2015.
  • Curatorial Fellow: The Interface Experience: Forty Years of Personal Computing, curated by Kimon Keramidas, BGC, New York, April 3–July 19, 2015.
  • Curatorial Fellow: Visualizing 19th-Century New York, curated by David Jaffee, BGC, New York, September 19, 2014–January 11, 2015.
  • Student assistant: Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, curated by Deborah Krohn, Ulrich Leben, and Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, BGC, New York, April 4–August 11, 2013.
  • Intern (N-YHS): Dutch New York between East and West: The World of Margrieta Van Varick, curated by Deborah Krohn, Peter Miller, Marybeth De Filippis, BGC, New York, September 18, 2009–January 3, 2010.

Affiliations

  • Associaton of Dress Historians
  • CIETA
  • Costume Society of America
  • Decorative Arts Trust
  • Museums and Galleries History Group
  • New Antiquarians
  • Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
  • Renaissance Society of America
  • Society for French Historical Studies
  • Society for the History of Collecting
  • Textile Society (UK)
  • Textile Society of America