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Thanks to the generous support of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at UMass, Rachel Young, a second-year MA student, was able to travel to Berlin this January to conduct research on Botticelli’s Bardi Altarpiece, housed at the Gemäldegalerie. The Bardi Altarpiece is the subject of her year-long independent study under Professor Monika Schmitter, during which she is writing UMass’s version of a Master Thesis, the “publishable paper.” Besides the invaluable experience of examining the painting in-person, she also had the opportunity to meet with Curator Neville Rowley, the specialist in Italian painting pre-1500 at the Gemäldegalerie, and spent a day perusing the painting’s curatorial file in the museum’s library.

Rachel believes the trip was quite productive, and enormously beneficial to her project.