Harvard – Stefania Santos, Assistant Professor of Art History at the Bocconi University, has recently obtained a summer scholarship at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, an institute of Harvard University and major research center in the field the Byzantine and medieval art studies. “My research concerns the relationship between arts and politics, focusing on issues of artistic interaction, conflict and public memory in the medieval Mediterranean,” explains the professor. At Dumbarton Oaks, she will research “visualizing politics research in the baptistery of San Marco and chapel of St Isidore in Venice”, part of a larger project that considers the selective appropriation of the Byzantine visual vocabulary in Venice in the fourteenth century in the context of complex institutional challenges and policies addressed by the city in the late Middle Ages. (9Colonne)
