Danai Thomaidis
Lecturer
Lecturer
- Department: Art History and Fine Arts
Danai Thomadis graduated with a PHD in Art History and 2021. Her research interest include Venetian colonization and the arts of the Mediterranean; Miraculous images; Art history and criticism; Byzantine and medieval art and revivals in early modern and contemporary art practices; Italian Renaissance; global art history; cross-cultural exchanges; interconnectedness in religious art between the Mediterranean and Atlantic; Blue Humanities; materiality and performativity; cultural heritage and preservation; museology; digital humanities.聽
Education/Degrees
- 2016-2021 PhD in Art History聽
- Ca鈥� Foscari University, Venice & Fribourg University, Switzerland聽聽
- Supervisors: Michela Agazzi (Ca鈥� Foscari Univ.), Michele Bacci (Fribourg Univ.)聽
- Project: The Life of Icons in Venice (13th - 17th centuries)聽聽
- Summa cum laude聽
- 2013- 2016 Master鈥檚 Degree in Byzantine and Medieval Art History聽
- Statale University, Milan & Ca鈥� Foscari University, Venice聽聽
- Thesis: The Illuminated Manuscript Gr. II 113 of the Marciana Library. Iconographic Analysis of the Miniatures in the Venetian Sociopolitical Context聽
- Degree: 110/110聽
- 2009- 2013 Bachelor鈥檚 Degree in Cultural Heritage聽
- Statale University, Milan聽
- Thesis: The Archaic Pediments of Athens Ekatompedon. The Iconographic Evolution of the Bull, the Lion and the Big Mother in the Greek Archaic Society聽