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).
Carol Richardson has done extensive research on cardinals in Rome, and their cultural networks. She also works on the English College in Rome. She leads the Rome Research Group, an interdisciplinary group that includes art historians, classicists and historians, which is open to those working on all aspects of the culture and history of Rome – ancient, Renaissance and modern. To date they have run a research day hosted by Dulwich Picture Gallery (11-12 December 2009), and a major international conference, hosted by the British School at Rome on Old St Peter’s (22-26 March 2010). Carol Richardson’s publications include Reclaiming Rome: Cardinals in the Fifteenth Century (E.J.Brill, 2009) and Possessions (Penn State University Press, 2010)
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 Carol Richardson - Italian Renaissance, particularly art patronage in Rome (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries).
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
