This research group, based in the art history department, includes members of staff working on art produced from the 14th through to the 16th centuries in a diverse group of territories, including Italy, the Low Countries, Spain and Byzantium. All deal with issues of artistic encounter and exchange.
Kim Woods works on art produced in the Low Countries, particularly sculpture, addressing its export network through Europe and its impact within Europe, particularly in the British Isles and Spain. She is in the process of establishing an interdisciplinary research group around the theme of ‘Locating cultural identities in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia c.1100–c.1600’. Her publications include Imported Images: Netherlandish Late Gothic Sculpture in England c.1400-c.1530 (Shaun Tyas, Donington, 2007).
Kathleen Christian specialises in Italian Renaissance art with a focus on the reception of antiquity in early modern Italy, the patronage, the display and collecting of sculpture, and garden history. After completing her dissertation at Harvard on antiquities collecting in Renaissance Rome, she was assistant professor of Italian Renaissance art for six years at the University of Pittsburgh. Her publications inlcude Patronage and Italian Renaissance Sculpture and Empire without End, which appeared with Yale University Press in 2010 and won the Society of Architectural Historians’ 2012 Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award.
Angeliki Lymberopoulou researches the art of Byzantium and Post Byzantium with particular focus on the late and post-Byzantine periods. Under her leadership, the department has hosted the Konstantinos Leventis Fellowship in post-Byzantine art held by Dr Diana Newall 2008-2010. The end result of this fellowship will be a publication with contributions from experts in both Byzantine and Western art. An important Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary project will run from 2010-2013, concerned with representations of hell in the frescoes of Venetian-dominated Crete (13th – 17th centuries). Her publications include The Church of the Archangel Michael at Kavalariana: Art and Society on Fourteenth-Century Venetian-dominated Crete (Pindar Press, London, 2006).
The group welcomes enquiries from students interested in research projects in these or related areas.
Potential supervisors:
Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou - Byzantine art.
Dr Kathleen Christian - Italian Renaissance, particularly the reception of antiquity in early modern Italy and the patronage, display and collecting of sculpture, and garden history.
Dr Kim Woods - Northern European art c.1350-c.1550, including the Netherlands, England and Spain. She particularly welcomes sculpture topics but ranges across different media.
If you have an enquiry specific to this research area please contact:
Email: arts-research-students@open.ac.uk
Phone:
+44 (0)1908 652479
