Davide Ferri, M.A.
Postgraduate Research Assistant

Davide Ferri studied Art and Visual History, Classical Archaeology and Image Theory in Berlin and Basel, from 2011 to 2016 with a DAAD scholarship. In 2018, he completed his M.A. with the thesis "City, Image, Body. 'Mary as the Queen of the City' in the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, 1637–1652", supervised by Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf. He worked as Student Assistant at the Cluster of Excellence "Image Knowledge Gestaltung" (2013–16), at the "Census of Antique Works of Arts and Architecture Known in the Renaissance" (2016–17), and, from 2017 to January 2019, in the General Direction of the Humboldt Forum Foundation in Berlin. 2014–15 Student Assistant and since February 2019 Postgraduate Research Assistant at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Department Gerhard Wolf.
- Visual history of urban spaces
- Political iconology
- Image, nature, territoriality