Phd in HISTORY OF ART

email: antonio.iacobini@uniroma1.it
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Antonio Iacobini is a graduate of "La Sapienza" University, Rome (MA in History of Art), where he also furthered his studies (Postgraduate School in Medieval and Modern Art History). He was Lecturer and Associated Professor in History of Byzantine Art and Medieval Art at Urbino University (1988-1998); in November 2000 he became Full Professor for History of Book Illumination and Byzantine Art at Sapienza Università di Roma. He taught History of Byzantine Art at Palackého University, Olomouc, and at the Postgraduate Schools in Florence, Bologna, Palermo and Milan (Cattolica del Sacro Cuore). On behalf of the "International Committee for the Restoration of the Tower of Pisa", he supervised documentary research on the monument (1991-1995). He presided over several study missions on Byzantine Art, on behalf of Universities “La Sapienza” of Rome, Padua and Urbino, in Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Greece. From 2004 he is member of the International Committee for the restoration of the wall paintings of Voskopoje in Albania, a site in the list of the World Monument Watch, a collaboration between the Institut National du Patrimoine and Patrimoine sans Frontières, Paris. He has been general supervisor of the editorial staff of "Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale" Treccani directed by A.M. Romanini (1984-2002); he is currently member of the scientific board of academic journals such as "Arte Medievale", "Nea Rhome", "Rivista di Storia della Miniatura", "teCLa.Temi di Critica e Letteratura artistica" and editor-in-chief of the series "Milion. Studi e ricerche d'arte bizantina". He is vice-president of the Associazione Italiana degli Storici dell’Arte Medievale; member of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia; member of the Istituto Siciliano di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici; member of the Società Internazionale di Storia della Miniatura; member of the Italian delegation in the CIHA–Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art; member of the Associazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico. He has been member of the Directing Board and Secretary of the Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini (2007-2012); member of the Universitary Commission of the Swiss Institute in Rome (2005-2014); Director of the Phd Program in History of Art, Sapienza Università di Roma (2010-2013). He took part to the scientific planning of several international congresses and exhibitions. His scientific interests deal with Early Christian, Byzantine and medieval visual culture, art and technology in the medieval Mediterranean world, History of Byzantine and medieval art historiography and collecting. He undertook a considerable body of research (1989-2018) for Urbino University, Sapienza Università di Roma, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca, receiving fundings PRIN–Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale, Research Projects of National Interest (1994; 1995; 1996; 1998; 2000; 2004; 2009; 2017).