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Rebecca Arnheim is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of History of Art & Architecture. Rebecca has received her B.A and M.A from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a diploma in Curatorial and Museum Studies from Tel Aviv University. For her dissertation research, Rebecca has conducted research visits to several museums in the USA and Europe. She has lived for the past year in Italy, where she visited museums, libraries, and archives and served as a fellow at the Medici Archive Project in Florence. In her research, Rebecca will resituate portrait drawings from the Italian Renaissance in sixteenth-century collections and reconstruct networks of patrons, artists, and collectors by examining the circumstances of the creation, commission, purchase, collection, and display of portrait drawings. Rebecca has also worked and interned in several museums, such as the Israel Museum, The Museum of Holocaust Art at Yad Vashem, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she shared her passion for art with visitors and curators alike.