Phd in HISTORY OF ART

email: manuela.gianandrea@uniroma1.it
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Manuela Gianandrea is professor of Medieval Art History at the University of Rome La Sapienza; in addition, manuela is currently coordinator of the Ph.D. in Art History and deputy director of the Department of History, Anthropology, Religions, Art, and Scenical Disciplines, Sapienza. She is also curator of the Dominican Museum of Santa Sabina all’Aventino, Rome. She organized several international conferences (Fondi nel Medioevo 2013; L’apogeo di Ravello nel Mediterraneo 2015; Gaeta medievale e la sua cattedrale 2016; Re-thinking, Re-making, Re-living Christian Origins 2016; Pietro Toesca a Roma e la sua eredità 2017) and the exhibition La lupa e la sfinge. L’Egitto a Roma dalla storia al mito (Rome, Castel Sant’Angelo, 2008). Manuela Gianandrea is the coordinator of the international projects Mapping Sacred Spaces. Form, Functions, and Aesthetics in Medieval Southern Italy, with Ruggero Longo and Elisabetta Scirocco, in collaboration with Bibliotheca Hertziana–Max Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte, and La scultura altomedievale romana: da ornamento a documento. Studio e catalogazione del Fondo Mazzanti, supported by Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo and della Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna di Roma. She is the editorial chief, with Pio Pistilli, of the series Medioevo Mediterraneo (Campisano Editore, Rome). She is also member of the scientific board of the periodical Storia dell’Arte and of the series Corpus della Scultura Altomedievale in Italia, Quaderni napoletani di Storia dell’arte medievale, and Quaderni di Sassovivo. Storia, arte, archeologia.
Manuela Gianandrea published studies on medieval Rome and Southern Italy. Her researches are mainly focusing on the reinterpretation of the artistic phenomena through the analysis of textual sources and the reassessment of traditional historiography.