New member of the RIGG: Simone Piazza

Dr Simone Piazza is Professor of Medieval and Byzantine Art History at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, and formerly Maître de conférences HdR at Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3. He is a member, among others, of the Comité français d'études byzantines, as well as an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Mediterranean European History (CNR).

He mainly works on painting and mosaics, with a particular interest in the circulation of iconographic models, formal expressions, material components and modes of execution between Byzantium and the Latin Middle Ages.

For several years he has also been working on the documentation of the lost mosaic heritage, which is currently the subject of the research project ME.MO.R.I.A. (MEdieval mural MOsaics in Italy: Redescovering In Absentia - material, figurative and written traces), supported by Ca' Foscari.

He is the author of numerous scientific essays that have appeared in conference proceedings and journals of international relevance, as well as of two monographs, the first on medieval cave painting in central-southern Italy (Collection de l'École française de Rome, 2006), the second on the legacy of the oculus zenitale in Christian art in architectural and figurative contexts (Campisano Editore, 2018).

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