Martina D’Amato’s research interests include the intersection of revivalism and modernism in decorative arts and design, national artistic traditions and transnationalism, and the history and theory of collecting and museums. Her dissertation examines the political motivations behind collecting medieval and Renaissance art in nineteenth-century France and Italy, with a focus on the collections of Louis Carrand (1827-1888) and the Marquise Arconati-Visconti (1840-1923). She holds a BA from New York University (2009) and an MA from the BGC (2012). She has contributed to publications including Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2013) and The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design (2015). Since 2015, she has worked at Cora Ginsburg LLC, where she researches 19th- and 20th-century textile design. She previously worked at the BGC as Curatorial Fellow for the exhibitions Visualizing 19th-Century New York (2014), The Interface Experience: Forty Years of Personal Computing (2015), and Design by the Book: Illustrating the Chinese Ritual Classics (2017), as well as at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; the Frick Collection; and the New-York Historical Society.