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Caroline Clemente was born and
educated in Melbourne. After completing a B.A. at The University of
Melbourne, she lived in Europe for ten years during which time she
graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in Art History from the Courtauld Institute, London University. In Florence, she pursued postgraduate study and worked at the Uffizi
and Pitti Galleries and at the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies.
Back in Australia, she tutored in the Fine Arts Department at The
University of Melbourne followed by ten years as Curator of Prints and
Drawings at the National Gallery of Victoria.
She is
author of Australian Watercolours in the National Gallery of Victoria, 1802-1926, and the “Catalogue of Plates” for Brenda Niall’s biography of
Georgiana McCrae.
In
2006, Caroline Clemente was a State Library of Victoria Creative Fellow,
continuing research undertaken for her 2005 MA degree from the University
of Melbourne, entitled, The Private Face of Patronage: the Howitts,
Artistic and Intellectual Philanthropists in early Melbourne Society.
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