Jakub Adamski
is an art historian and medievalist. He graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and, since 2012, has been assistant and associate professor at the Institute of Art History of the University of Warsaw. His main areas of research are the history of medieval, especially Gothic, architecture and sculpture. He is interested in 13th- to 16th-century church architecture in Poland, the German Empire, France, and England, especially its style, the history of rib vaulting, and the development of spatial types in late Gothic architecture. His research focuses on issues of “architecture around 1300.”
Flaminia Bardati
is Associate Professor in Architectural History at Sapienza University of Rome. She studies artistic and cultural exchanges between Italy and France during the Renaissance; the transmission and reception of functional, formal, and constructional models; and the role of clients in the genesis of architectural projects. Her research focuses on some of the major buildings of the French Renaissance (Gaillon, Chambord, Fontainebleau, Hôtel de Ville in Paris) and on a number of Italian architects and artists working in France in the 16th century (Pacherot, the Giusti family, Domenico da Cortona, Leonardo da Vinci, Primaticcio, Vignola). She is the author of numerous essays and the monographs, including “Il bel palatio in forma di castello”: Gaillon tra Flamboyant e Rinascimento (Campisano, 2009); and Hommes du roi et princes de l’Église romaine: Les cardinaux français et l’art italien (1495–1560) (Rome, 2015).
Costanza Beltrami
is Departmental Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Art History at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on Gothic architecture in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. She is particularly interested in the representation of buildings in accounts, ornamental prints, and other media. Her book Building a Crossing Tower: A Design for Rouen Cathedral of 1516 (Paul Holberton, 2016) explores a newly discovered drawing of monumental scale, placing it in the context of architectural aspirations and conflicts in the northern French city of Rouen. Her current project focuses on the master mason Juan Guas (active 1453–96) and on craft networks, collaboration, and exchange in late 15th-century Castile.
Robert Bork
is Professor of Art History at the University of Iowa, specializing in the study of Gothic architecture. His research has received support from the American
Jana Gajdošová
completed her doctoral thesis at the University of London in 2015, focusing on the iconography and building history of the Charles Bridge in Prague. She has since taught at Cambridge University and at Christies Education. Currently, she is a medieval art specialist at Sam Fogg Gallery in London and teaches a variety of courses for the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Maile S. Hutterer
is Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. Her work focuses on the reception of Gothic architecture in high and late medieval France, with a particular emphasis on how audiences understood architectural and structural innovations. Her first book, Framing the Church: The Social, Contextual, and Artistic Power of Gothic Buttresses, was published by Penn State University Press in 2020.
Jacqueline E. Jung
is Professor in the department of History of Art and the Medieval Studies program at Yale University. She is the author of The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, ca. 1200–1400 (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and Eloquent Bodies: Movement, Expression, and the Human Figure in Gothic Sculpture (Yale University Press, 2020).
Alice Klima
received her Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Brown University. Currently, she teaches medieval architecture and visual culture and the history of architecture at the University of Georgia, Athens. Her research focuses on the late medieval Central European built environment and highlights Bohemian architecture within the broader European context. She is also interested in the meaning of architecture as generated through daily use and function of space, especially in monastic communities, in addition to the process
Abby McGehee
is an art historian and arts educator who lives and works in Portland, OR. From 1997 to 2019, she taught art and craft history at the now-closed Oregon College of Art and Craft. Her work focuses on late Gothic parish church architecture in France.
Paul Niell
focuses primarily on the art, architecture, and material culture of the Hispanophone Caribbean in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He is interested in a wide range of critical and theoretical literatures, including colonial theory, material culture theory, cultural landscape studies, and critical heritage studies. He teaches courses in the Visual Cultures of the Americas program in the Department of Art History at Florida State University, where he is Associate Professor. He is the author of Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba: Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754–1828 (University of Texas Press, 2015) and co-editor with Stacie G. Widdifield of Buen Gusto and Classicism in the Visual Cultures of Latin American, 1780–1910 (University of New Mexico Press, 2013). His work appears in The Art Bulletin, Colonial Latin American Review, The Latin Americanist, and the Bulletin of Latin American Research.
Michalis Olympios
received his Ph.D. at the Courtauld Institute of Art and is now Associate Professor in the History of Western Art at the University of Cyprus. His research interests encompass the history of medieval art and architecture in Northern Europe and the Latin East, with a particular focus on the intersections between artistic form, use of space, and collective identities. He has published widely on Gothic architecture and sculpture in France, Cyprus, and Greece. His current projects include the editing of a collected essay volume on the medieval/early modern Greek cathedral of the Panagia Hodegetria (present-day Bedestan) in Nicosia and the study of the 14th-century architectural history of the Collège des Bernardins in Paris. He is also co-founder and current co-editor (with Chris Schabel) of Frankokratia: A Journal for the Study of Greek Lands under Latin Rule, which is published biannually by Brill.
Zachary Stewart
is Associate Professor of Architectural History and Theory in the Department of Architecture at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on the buildings,
Alice Isabella Sullivan
received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and is now Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies at Tufts University. She is a historian of medieval art, architecture, and visual culture, specializing in the artistic production of Eastern Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres. She is the author of award-winning articles in The Art Bulletin (2017) and Speculum (2019), and the co-author of a study in Gesta (2021), among other peer-reviewed publications. She is author of The Eclectic Visual Culture of Medieval Moldavia (Brill, 2023), and co-editor of the volumes: Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages (Brill, 2020), Eclecticism in Late Medieval Visual Culture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Traditions (De Gruyter, 2022), and Natural Light in Medieval Churches (Brill, 2023). She is also co-founder of North of Byzantium and Mapping Eastern Europe—two initiatives that explore the history, art, and culture of the northern frontiers of the Byzantine Empire in Eastern Europe during the medieval and early modern periods.
Kyle G. Sweeney
is Assistant Professor of Art History at Winthrop University. A specialist in the architectural and urban history of late medieval France, his research has been supported by the Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Study of Medieval Science, Technology, and Art (AVISTA), International Center of Medieval Art/Kress Foundation Research and Publication Grant, the Brown Foundation, and the Humanities Research Center (HRC) at Rice University. He is currently preparing a book on architecture and society in Normandy that examines how churches, chapels, and châteaux shaped the experience of urban space, rituals, and class interactions in the early sixteenth century.
Marek Walczak
specializes in the medieval art of Central Europe, with particular emphasis on painting and sculpture in the 14th and 15th centuries. He is the director of the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University and head of the Department of Medieval Art.