Barbara Jatta | |
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 The Director of the Vatican Museums Barbara Jatta | |
| Born | October 6, 1962 |
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| Alma mater | Sapienza University of Rome |
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| Discipline | Art history |
| Institutions | Vatican Library Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples Vatican Museum |
Barbara Jatta (born 6 October 1962) is an Italian art historian who has been the director of the Vatican Museums since June 2016.
Jatta has joked that she was born among the smell of solvents. [1] Her mother was a painter and conservator,and her sister a conservator. [2]
She often visited her grandparents on Via Giulia in Rome,or at Fregene on the outskirts of the city,where her grandmother,Assia Busiri Vici,a portrait painter,would paint her. Her grandfather Andrea was an architect. She has studied conservation at Istituto centrale per la patologia del libro,today Istituto centrale per il restauro e la conservazione del patrimonio archivistico e librario. [3] Despite her family background,she only determined on a career in art history when she was living in an artists commune in Rome and went with one of the artists to an art history lesson. [4]
She studied literature at the University of Rome (Universitàdegli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"),completing her thesis,The History of Drawing,Engraving and Graphics,in 1986. [5] She later went on to earn degrees in Archive Administration and Art History. [6] After her studies in Italy,she studied in England,Portugal,and the United States. [7] Since 1994 she has taught at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples. [8]
In 1996 she joined and led the prints section of the Vatican Library. She became the vice-director of the Vatican Museums under Antonio Paolucci in June 2016. [6] On 20 December 2016,Pope Francis appointed her the director of the Vatican Museums, [6] effective 1 January 2017. Jatta became the first female director of the Vatican Museums. [9] She is responsible for artworks that includes the iconic ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The Vatican museums earns more than $300m with profits of $40m from visitors to their museums. [10] Jatta has recognised the work done by her predecessors. She says that she will eliminate the unsightly queue of visitors who stand to await entry. She will encourage visitors to enjoy the lesser known sections of the museum which should reduce crowding of the Sistine Chapel. She planned to utilize the "new media" to both publicize and educate. All this must be done,she said,while "paying special attention to the ‘Vatican tradition’." [11] In March 2017,Jatta presided over the opening of a show at the Vatican Museums for the first time:Dilectissimo fratri Caesario Symmachus». From Arles to Rome,the relics of St. Caesarius,treasure of Paleo-Christian Gaul. [12]
In March 2018,Jatta attended meetings in Rome that marked the UN's International Day of Women and she represented the Vatican at a conference sponsored by the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW),the first time the Vatican had participated in a meeting sponsored by the CSW. [13]
Since 1988 Jatta has been married to Fabio Midulla,a medical educator;they have three children. [14]
Vatican City,officially the Vatican City State,is a landlocked independent country,city-state,microstate,and enclave within Rome,Italy. It became independent from Italy in 1929 with the Lateran Treaty,and it is a distinct territory under "full ownership,exclusive dominion,and sovereign authority and jurisdiction" of the Holy See,itself a sovereign entity under international law,which maintains the city-state's temporal power and governance,diplomatic,and spiritual independence. With an area of 49 hectares and as of 2023 a population of about 764,it is the smallest state in the world both by area and by population. As governed by the Holy See,Vatican City State is an ecclesiastical or sacerdotal-monarchical state ruled by the Pope,who is the bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church. The highest state functionaries are all Catholic clergy of various origins. After the Avignon Papacy (1309–1377) the popes have mainly resided at the Apostolic Palace within what is now Vatican City,although at times residing instead in the Quirinal Palace in Rome or elsewhere. The Vatican is also a metonym for the Holy See.
The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace,the pope's official residence in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna,the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV,who had it built between 1473 and 1481. Since that time,the chapel has served as a place of both religious and functionary papal activity. Today,it is the site of the papal conclave,the process by which a new pope is selected. The fame of the Sistine Chapel lies mainly in the frescoes that decorate the interior,most particularly the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment,both by Michelangelo.
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