Art History Department
Subject: Allegorical Narrative in Monumental Art in Italy and in North Europe 1250-1450
Supervisor: Dr. Lola Kantor-Kazovsky
Abstract: My research focuses on the visual aspects of the allegorical flourishing in late medieval Europe and analyses its rhetorical role in relation to its context – the physical and intellectual environment in which it was created. I believe that allegorical images are not merely translating the allegorical texts, but uses the visual language in order to construct a layered narrative; and by doing so, demands from the artists different skills of encoding, and from the viewers different skills of decoding than the ones used for written allegories.
Bio: I finished my bachelor’s degree in the departments of Archeology and Art History, and my master’s degree in the department of Art History in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My interest lies within the sphere of Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italian artistic tradition, especially pertaining to the art of the Franciscan order; literary and visual allegories; and cognitive history of art. In addition to my research, I work at the Israel Museum.
President Stipend 2021/22