Michele Bacci

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Michele Bacci (born June 17, 1970 in Pisa ) is an Italian art historian . He is professor of medieval art history at the University of Friborg and a member of the Academia Europaea

Michele Bacci

biography

Michele Bacci studied art history at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and received her doctorate there in 1999. Between 2002 and 2011 he was Associate Professor of Medieval Art History at the Université di Siena ; In 2011 he was appointed to the chair of medieval art history at the University of Friborg , which he has held since then. Visiting professorships and teaching and research stays led him a. a. to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (2009), to the University of Tokyo (2010), to the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (since 2015), to the Masaryk University in Brno (2015, 2017) and to the University of Zurich (2019 ). Bacci has been a member of the international consortium for the restoration of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem , Palestine, since 2010 .

Research priorities

In his research, Bacci deals in general with the art of the Middle Ages from a cultural-historical perspective, looking in detail at the Middle Ages West, but also Byzantium and Late Antiquity. One focus is the Mediterranean studies, especially an investigation of the dynamics of cultural exchange in art. This aspect also plays an important role in his consideration of the art of the Christian communities of the Middle East and Asia. Questions of religious practice are also frequently considered in his work; so in the case of cult objects and religious materiality as well as the topic of site-specific worship practice and religious experience or their reflex in works of art. From the beginning of his research, there was a general interest in the history of the image and image theory .

Exhibitions, projects, conferences (selection)

  • San Nicola. Splendori d'arte d'Oriente e d'Occidente , (Castello Svevo, Bari), 2007
  • Forme e caratteri della santità in Toscana nell'età dei Comuni agiografia, iconografia, istituzioni (Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (Rome)), 2004–2006
  • The Holy Portulane. The Sacred Geography of Navigation in the Middle Ages (Swiss National Science Foundation), 2013
  • From Venice to the Holy Land. Equipment and perception of pilgrimage sites on the Mediterranean coast (1300–1550) (Swiss National Science Foundation), 2014–2018
  • Cultural Interactions in Medieval Giorgia (Swiss National Science Foundation), 2017
  • Royal Epiphanies. The King's Body as Image and Its Mise-en-scène in the Medieval Mediterranean (12th – 14th c.) (Swiss National Science Foundation), 2017–2021

Publications

Monographs

  • Il pennello dell'evangelista. Storia delle immagini sacre attribuite a san Luca , Gisem-Ets, Pisa: Gisem-ETS, 1998 ('Piccola Biblioteca Gisem' 14).
  • «Pro ​​remedio animae». Immagini sacre e pratiche devozionali in Italia centrale (secoli XIII e XIV) , Pisa: Gisem-ETS, 2000 ('Piccola Biblioteca Gisem' 15).
  • Investimenti per l'aldilà. Arte e raccomandazione dell'anima nel Medioevo , Bari-Roma: Laterza, 2003.
  • Lo spazio dell'anima. Vita di una chiesa medievale , Bari-Roma: Laterza, 2005.
  • San Nicola. Il Grande Taumaturgo , Bari-Roma: Laterza, 2009.
  • The Many Faces of Christ. Portraying the Holy in the East and the West from 300 to 1300 , London: Reaction Books, 2014.
  • The Mystic Cave. A History of the Nativity Church in Bethlehem , Brno-Rome: Masaryk University Press-Viella, 2017.

Editorships, essays

  • Editor of Iconographica magazine (since 2003)
  • Co-editor of MAH - Mediterranean Art Histories (since 2019)

Detailed list of publications on the Academia Europaea website: [1]

Memberships and honors (selection)

  • Hanno and Ilse Hahn Prize (2016)
  • Honorary member of the Christian Archaeological Society (ΧΑΕ) (since 2014), the Academia Europaea (since 2015), the International Center of Medieval Art (since 2016)
  • Editorial Board of Frankokratia (since 2019), Convivium (since 2014)
  • Advisory Board of the journals Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique (since 2020), Roman yearbook of the Bibliotheca Hertziana (since 2020), Codex Aquilarensis (since 2012), Perspective (since 2012), Carte semiotiche (since 2011), Memorie domenicane (since 2008)
  • Advisory Board in the project Magistri mediterranei.Movilidad y transferencia artística en el Mediterráneo medieval (1187–1388) , Universitat autònoma, Barcelona, ​​and Government of Spain (since 2016)

Web links, sources

personal data
SURNAME Bacci, Michele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 17th June 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Pisa