Michele Bacci#
| Membership Number: | 3986 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MUSICOLOGY & ART HISTORY |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www3.unifr.ch/directory/fr/people/6925/a067e |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - today Full Professor of Medieval Art, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- 2002 - 2011 Associate Professor of Iconography and Iconology, University of Siena, Italy
- 1999 - 2002 Research fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Medieval art
- Late Antique and Byzantine studies
- Mediterranean studies
- Arts of the Christian communities of the Near East and Asia
- Dynamics of cultural interaction in the arts of the Middle Ages and the early modern period
- Cult-objects and religious materiality in the Middle Ages and the early modern period
- History of images and image theory
- Site-specific and devotional forms of religious experience as reflected in the arts
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Honorary member of the Society of Christian Archaeology (Χριστιανική Ἀρχαιολογική Ἑταιρεία) of Athens
- 2017 Hanno and Ilse Hahn Price for excellent research in Italian arts, Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana-Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
