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Artistic networks, 1300-1550

Course details

University Name
The Open University
Department
Department of Art History
Course Title
Artistic networks, 1300-1550
Qualification, duration, mode
PhD 36FT 72PT variableDL*MPhil 15FT 24PT variableDL
Months of entry
October
Entry requirements
PhD: The normal minimum entrance requirement is an upper second class honours degree or master's degree, relevant to the proposed area of study, from a recognised higher education institution in the UK. You should also have experience of academic research in the previous four years, normally in the form of either a master's degree in research methods, an undergraduate degree with a research element in the final year, or work-related experience with evidence through research reports. If you're not sure if you meet the entry requirements, please contact us (research-degrees-team@open.ac.uk).
MPhil: see http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/ for more information.
Funding
Please see The Open University website http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/ for more information.
Course description
Artistic networks, 1300-1550 is a research group based in the Department of Art History. It includes members of staff working on art produced from the 14th through to the 16th centuries in a diverse group of territories, including Italy, the Low Countries, Spain and Byzantium. All deal with issues of artistic encounter and exchange.

Dr Kim Woods works on art produced in the Low Countries, particularly sculpture, addressing its export network through Europe and its impact within Europe, particularly in the British Isles and Spain. She has established an interdisciplinary research group around the theme of 'Locating cultural identities in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia c.1100-c.1600'. Her publications include Imported Images: Netherlandish Late Gothic Sculpture in England c.1400-c.1530 (Shaun Tyas, Donington, 2007).

Dr Carol Richardson has done extensive research on cardinals in Rome, and their cultural networks. She also works on the English College in Rome. She leads the Rome Research Group, an interdisciplinary group that includes art historians, classicists and historians, which is open to those working on all aspects of the culture and history of Rome - ancient, Renaissance and modern. They have run a research day hosted by Dulwich Picture Gallery (11-12 December 2009), and a major international conference, hosted by the British School at Rome on Old St Peter's (22-26 March 2010). Carol Richardson's publications include Reclaiming Rome: Cardinals in the Fifteenth Century (E.J.Brill, 2009) and The Possessions of a Cardinal: Art, Piety, and Politics 1450-1700(Penn State University Press, 2010)

Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou researches the art of Byzantium and post-Byzantium with particular focus on the late and post-Byzantine periods. Under her leadership, the department hosted the Konstantinos Leventis Fellowship in post-Byzantine art held by Dr Diana Newall 2008-2010. The end result of this fellowship will be a publication with contributions from experts in both Byzantine and Western art. An important Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary project is running from 2010-2013, concerned with representations of hell in the frescoes of Venetian-dominated Crete (13th - 17th centuries). Her publications include The Church of the Archangel Michael at Kavalariana: Art and Society on Fourteenth-Century Venetian-dominated Crete (Pindar Press, London, 2006).

Potential research projects
The group welcomes enquiries from students interested in research projects in these or related areas.

Current / recent research projects
- Culture, Humanism and Intellect: Cardinal Bessarion as Patron of the Arts.
- Giotto's Enterprise: Art, Avarice and Ambition in Trecento Italy.
- The Critical Reception of the Wall Paintings at the Villa Dei Misteri, Pompeii, Italy.

Potential supervisors
- Angeliki Lymberopoulou -
Byzantine art.

- Dr Carol Richardson -
Italian Renaissance, particularly art patronage in Rome (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries).

- Dr Kim Woods -
Northern European art c.1350-c.1550, including the Netherlands, England and Spain. She particularly welcomes sculpture topics but ranges across different media.
Contact name
Arts Research
Telephone
+44 (0)1908 652479
Email
arts-research-students@open.ac.uk
Web
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/

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