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Danai Thomaidis

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. 



Education/Degrees

  • 2016-2021 PhD in Art History 
    • Ca’ Foscari University, Venice & Fribourg University, Switzerland  
    • Supervisors: Michela Agazzi (Ca’ Foscari Univ.), Michele Bacci (Fribourg Univ.) 
    • Project: The Life of Icons in Venice (13th - 17th centuries)  
    • Summa cum laude 
  • 2013- 2016 Master’s Degree in Byzantine and Medieval Art History 
    • Statale University, Milan & Ca’ Foscari University, Venice  
    • Thesis: The Illuminated Manuscript Gr. II 113 of the Marciana Library. Iconographic Analysis of the Miniatures in the Venetian Sociopolitical Context 
    • Degree: 110/110 
  • 2009- 2013 Bachelor’s Degree in Cultural Heritage 
    • Statale University, Milan 
    • Thesis: The Archaic Pediments of Athens Ekatompedon. The Iconographic Evolution of the Bull, the Lion and the Big Mother in the Greek Archaic SocietyÂ