Notes on Contributors
Josip (JoÅ¡ko) BelamariÄ
is head of the Institute of Art History (Cvito FiskoviÄ Center) in Split and is Professor at the Department of Art History, University of Split. Between 1991 and 2009 he served as the director of the Regional Office for Monument Protection. He has published a number of books, studies, and articles on the urban history of art, architecture, and urbanism of early modern Dalmatia. He has directed conservation works in Dalmatia and also curated a number of exhibitions.
Diana Belci
is a lecturer at the Politehnica University TimiÅoara, Romania, Faculty of Architecture and City Planning where she teaches history of architecture and heritage conservation. She earned her PhD from the University of Architecture Ion Mincu in Bucharest and was a visiting PhD candidate at Ãcole Nationale Supérieure dâArchitecture de Paris-Belleville. Her work focuses on transregional and cross-cultural artistic exchanges between designed and vernacular architecture in the former Ottoman, Balkan-Eastern European region.
Darka BiliÄ
is a research associate at the Institute of Art History in Croatia. She received her MA in Art History and Italian Language and Literature from the University of Zagreb, where she also obtained her PhD. Her work focuses on the history of early modern architecture in the eastern Adriatic in a broader geographical and cultural context, with a special interest in exploring the role of the Venetian Republic in shaping the built environment.
Daniela Calciu
is Heritage Director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art and assistant professor of architectural design at the âIon Mincuâ University of Architecture and Urbanism. She also develops action research projects with the Association for Urban Transition to craft new modes of collaboration between academia, professionals, and urban communities. Her awards and recognitions include bursaries from UNESCO, CNRS, TATE Modern, and IWM Wien, and the Fulbright Junior Award as visiting researcher at the University of Cincinnati.
Ioli Kalavrezou
is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art History at Harvard University. Topics of special interest in her research include the relationship of Church and State, political and ideological history, sun imagery of the emperor, and the cult of the Virgin. Her book Byzantine Steatite Icons investigates private devotion in Byzantium. Her studies on the roles and place of Byzantine women produced the exhibition Byzantine Women and Their World. These questions led her to investigate material evidence, from wall paintings and mosaics to carved objects, icons, and manuscripts.
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari
is associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Design at Marmara University, Ä°stanbul. She is the author of several books, book chapters, and articles on Turkish and Islamic art and architecture. Her special interests include: the material culture of the Northern Black Sea Region with a special focus on the Golden Horde and Crimean Khanates; the culture of death in the Ottoman environment; and Islamic visual and architectural culture and its agency.
Gülru NecipoÄlu
is the Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Art at Harvard University and editor of Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World (Brill). She specializes in the arts/architecture of the early modern Mediterranean and Eastern Islamic lands. Her publications examine aesthetic cosmopolitanism, transregional connectivity between empires (Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal), architectural practice and drawings, and theories of ornament. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Anna Mária Nyárádi
is a research fellow of Special Collections, National Széchényi Library. Previously she was involved in the inventorization and documentation of the ecclesiastical cultural heritage in Hungary and research projects focused on goldsmithery. She holds a doctoral degree (PhD) in art history from Eötvös Loránd University. Her research interests pertain to Central-European decorative arts with a special attention on Hungarian goldsmithery and printmaking.
Alexandr Osipian
is a Research Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is a historian specialized in the cultural transfer between the Middle East and Eastern Europe. His research focuses on late medieval and early modern long-distance trade operated by Armenian merchant networks and on the formal and informal conditions of trade in the region. He is also interested in how oriental goods were consumed, appropriated, reinterpreted, and imitated in Eastern Europe.
Alina Payne
is Alexander P. Misheff Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and Paul E. Director of Villa I Tatti (Florence). Most recently she published Lâarchitecture parmi les arts. Matérialité, transferts et travail artistique dans lâItalie de la Renaissance (Hazan/Louvre 2016) and co-edited The Renaissance in the 19th Century. Revision, Revival and Return (I Tatti/HUP, 2018). She received the Max Planck and Alexander von Humboldt Prize in the Humanities and is Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Daniel Premerl
is a Research Associate at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb, Croatia. He is the author of the book Bolonjske slike hrvatske povijesti (2014), a study on the political iconography of wall paintings from 1700 in the Illyrian- Hungarian College in Bologna. His articles focus on the early modern Italian art commissioned by Croats either for their national institutions in Italy or for their churches in Croatia. Within ecclesiastical art he explores altarpieces in particular.
Mirko Sardelic
is a historian of medieval and early modern cross-cultural exchange, especially between the Mediterranean world and Eurasian steppe. He is a Research Associate at the Department of Historical Research of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and an Honorary Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (University of Western Australia). He is also founder and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Emotions in Cross-Cultural Exchange.
Vladimir SimiÄ
is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade. His research is focused on early modern art and culture in Southeastern Europe. He is the author and editor of several books and numerous published articles. Currently, he is editor in chief of Matica Srpska Journal for Fine Arts and Head of the Department of Fine Art of Matica Srpska.
Tatiana Sizonenko
earned her PhD in Art History at the University of California, San Diego. Her scholarship focuses on the transmission of Italian Renaissance art and architecture in the greater Mediterranean world. She has published on the art and culture of Renaissance Venice, Constantinople, Muscovy, and the Crimean Khanate. She is the recipient of a number of fellowships, multiple dissertation research fellowships from UCSD, and a national fellowship for distinguished scholarship in art history in Russia.
Ana Å verko
is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Art HistoryâCvito FiskoviÄ Center. She works part-time at the University of Split as a lecturer in the Architecture and Urban Planning graduate program. Her research focuses on the architectural and urban history of the Eastern Adriatic in a cross-cultural context, with particular emphasis on classical architecture and the study of travelogues. Her work brings together the history of the urban form and heritage conservation studies.
Iván Szántó
is Chair of the Department of Iranian Studies of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary, where he habilitated in 2014. Between 2010 and 2017 he was leader of a project at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna, Austria, aiming to contextualize Islamic, chiefly Persian, art objects in Central Europe. In 2018 he was scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California. His research interests cover diverse aspects of Iranian art history in the Islamic period, as well as Islamic artistic interactions with neighboring regions. His books include: The Shaping of Persian Art (ed., with Yuka Kadoi, Newcastle, 2013) and Honar-e Iran asr-e Qajar dar majmuâeha-ye Majarestan (Tehran, 2016).
MichaÅ WardzyÅski
is Assistant Professor at the Art History Institute, Warsaw University, Poland. His main fields of interest are material and technique studies in Central-European sculpture and small-scale architecture in the early modern era. He is currently working on a book on Flemish and Dutch high-baroque sculpture imports and on the reception of Netherlandish art culture in this region. He has participated in several research grants in the EU and worldwide and has taken part in dozens of international and national scientific congresses and conferences. He is the author and co-author of three scientific books as well as many articles and reviews in Polish and congress languages and is the co-editor of eleven collected volumes.