Departments, Research Groups and Research Facilities
In the departments, research groups and research facilities of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, academics investigate in international collaborations the history of art and visual cultures from the 4th century to the present day.
Image, Object, Site. Mediterranean / Transcultural Art Histories
Department Gerhard Wolf
Transregional Art Histories. Actors, Spaces, Ecologies from the 13th Century to the Present
Research Group Hannah Baader
Etho-Ästhetiken des Visuellen
Research Group Hana Gründler
Coded Objects
Lise Meitner Research Group Anna-Maria Meister
Empires of Faith
External Scientific Member Jaś Elsner
Completed Research Groups and Programs:
Art, Dialogue, History. Sources and Practice Discourses of Italian Art from a Historical Perspective
Juniorprofessur Wolf-Dietrich Löhr (until 2021)
The Nomos of Images. Manifestation and Iconology of Law
Minerva Research Group Carolin Behrmann (until 2019)
Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices. Kunstgeschichte und ästhetische Praktiken
Research and fellowship program (until 2019)
Connecting Art Histories in the Museum. Africa, Asia, the Mediterranean and Europe
Research and fellowship program (until 2019)
Objects in the Contact Zone. The Cross-Cultural Lives of Things
Max Planck Research Group Eva-Maria Troelenberg (until 2018)
Crossing Boundaries, Creating Images. In Search of the Prophet Muhammad in Literary and Visual Traditions
Max Planck Fellow Avinoam Shalem (until 2015)
Das wissende Bild. Epistemologische Grundlagen profaner Bildlichkeit vom 15. bis 19. Jahrhundert
Max Planck Research Group Michael Thimann (until 2011)