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Research Insterests

Early modern art in Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Latin America; reception aesthetics; the history of art history; theories of embodiment and embodied perception; materials and materiality; sculpture as an artform; ekphrasis; synagonism and intermediality.

Projects

Ecologies of Marble: A Diachronic Perspective (2025–2028)

The network explores the interdependences between marble used in art and architecture and the ecological system. This relationship is conceptualized in a very broad sense: an environment of the highest complexity that correlates with the organisms – including humans – that live in this system and generate it at the same time. web

Heinrich Wölfflin: Collected Works (2021–2024)

The publication of the collected works of the Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin (1864–1945) will make both the published and unpublished works of one of the most influentual scholars of modernity newly accessible with an extensive critical apparatus. web

Synagonism in the Visual Arts (2017–2020)

The network seeks to explore the productive exchange between early modern painting, sculpture, and architecture. web

Editorial activities

  • Editorial board: Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani web

Memberships

  • Renaissance Society of America (RSA) web
  • The International Council of Museums (ICOM) web
  • Latin American Center Zurich web
  • Zentrum für historische Mediologie web
  • Zentrum Künste und Kulturtheorie web

Additional Information

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