Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Adolfo Venturi

Italian art historian1856 to 1941

Wikidata names Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle as doctoral advisor and lists 5 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

Adolfo Venturi, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught5

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Pietro Toesca

    born 1877
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Carlo Anti

    born 1889
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

The line above and below1 step

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Education and career1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.