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Dr. Itay Sapir
Post-Doctoral Fellow

Fax: +39 055 24911-55
E-mail: sapir@khi.fi.it


Curriculum vitae:
Dr. Itay Sapir was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1973. He holds an MA in history from Tel Aviv University, and, since 2008, a PhD in art history and aesthetics from the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA, University of Amsterdam) and the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris. His doctoral dissertation was titled "Ténèbres sans leçons : the Aesthetics and Epistemology of Roman Tenebrist Painting, 1595-1610", and in connection with it he has published numerous articles on artists such as Caravaggio and Adam Elsheimer. Sapir had a 4-year doctoral fellowship at ASCA, where he taught several art history and cultural analysis courses; he has recently been teaching at the Liberal Studies Program of NYU in France. Since May 15, 2009 he is a post-doctoral fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, working on a project about the Port Scenes of Claude Lorrain.


 		 

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Claude Lorrain's Port Scenes: the Knowable, the Liminal and the Incommensurable

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