Ethics and Architecture

The spectrum of questions posed by the relation between ethics and architecture is broad. It spans all the way from the reception of Vitruvius and Aristotle in the Trecento, to reflections on the moral dimension of architecture in the eighteenth century, right down to current theories and practices of building.

Languages of Art History

How did conventions of art historical writing come into being across various linguistic traditions, and how have they survived and developed out of inter-linguistic exchange?

Piazza e monumento

Der Platz gilt seit der Antike als Paradigma der Stadt und des Öffentlichen, dessen politische und soziale Bedeutung sich bis in die Gegenwart fortsch...

Rinascimento conteso

'Rinascimento conteso' aims to construct a dialogue with challenges to the historiographical paradigm of a supposedly triumphant Renaissance, responding to sound criticisms of the term’s elitist connotations.

Vasaris Welten und die deutsche kommentierte Ausgabe der 'Vite' in den beiden Editionen von 1550 und 1568

Das Werk und Denken Giorgio Vasaris bildet für die europäische Kunstwissenschaft bis heute das wichtigste Referenzmodell und einen konstanten methodol...

Ecology and Aesthetics. Environmental Approaches in Art History (e/ae)

Ecological and aesthetic theories are intertwined in multiple ways. The project opens a dialogue with archeology, anthropology and history of science concerned with the "anthropocene", rethinking the nature/culture divide in a transcultural perspective, including notions of heritage and sustainability, creation and consumption.

Aesthetics, Art, and Architecture in the Caucasus (Georgia Project)

While most debates regarding intercultural dynamics between Christianity, Islam and Judaism are concerned with the Mediterranean, this project is concentrating on the art and architecture of South Caucasus, an under these premises hardly studied region comprising Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as Georgian and Armenian heritage in Eastern Turkey.

Pompeii Arch&Lab

Eine natur- und geisteswissenschaftliche Untersuchung der Restaurierungs- und Musealisierungsgeschichte Pompejis verbunden mit dem Ziel der Entwicklung innovativer, nachhaltiger Restaurierungsmaterialien und Verfahren.

Storia dell'arte e catastrofi: L'italia sismica (sta-sis)

Un progetto transdisciplinare incentrato sul ruolo della storia dell’arte negli scenari post-catastrofe, con un’attenzione particolare al paesaggio e al patrimonio culturale italiani.

The Art of Containment

The Art of Containment is a recently started long-term collaborative research and exhibition project. It is concerned with all kinds of vessels and containers, their materiality, shape and decoration, their functions and agency, their biographies and itineraries. The project is the next step in the research focus on concepts and theories, relations and constellations of image and object (Ding/Bild).

Sacred Landscapes:
Between Materiality, Transportability and Narration (Jerusalem Project)

Sacred Landscapes, in particular deserts and mountains are liminal spaces and also places of aesthetic production or response. Their dimensions are material, narrative and iconic, and they are connected to monumental sacred sites. The long-term Jerusalem project is concerned with all these aspects and analyses the ways in which they are intertwined.

Storia dell'arte transregionale. Attori, spazi, ecologie dal XIII secolo ad oggi

In questa unità la ricerca è focalizzata sulla storia dell'arte e delle pratiche estetiche in una prospettiva transregionale ed ecologica. Ponendo l'accento sulla materialità dell'arte e delle pratiche artistiche, essa va ad investigare le opere d'arte in relazione al loro luogo, spazio, ambiente.

Arte, discorso, storia. Fonti e prassi dell'arte italiana in una prospettiva storica

Per comprendere i complessi oggetti della storia dell'arte nella loro costituzione e funzionalità materiale e tecnica occorre analizzare le condi...

Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology

Der Forschungsverbund hat zum Ziel, die Migration von Bildern, Artefakten und Ideen aus einer interdisziplinären Perspektive zu erforschen. Dabei geht es besonders um Beziehungen zwischen Kulturen, die sich in Zeit und Ort, Sprache, Religion und politischer Ordnung unterscheiden, und um die theoretischen Implikationen von solchen Migrations-, Transformations- und Interaktionsprozessen.

Convivencia: Iberian to Global Dynamics (500–1750)

Using the term CONVIVENCIA with a question mark, the project investigates the cooperative and conflictual interactions of different cultural and religious communities in the Iberian "world" from the sixth to the eighteenth centuries, also including comparative studies in other areas.

Il Progetto EUPLOOS

Il Progetto Euploos intende promuovere un dialogo internazionale tra la comunità dei ricercatori e degli studiosi offrendo uno strumento di ricerca in...

CENOBIUM - Un progetto per la rappresentazione multimediale dei capitelli di chiostro romanici nell’ambito mediterraneo

CENOBIUM intende contribuire all'analisi delle complesse dinamiche degli scambi artistici nel XII e XIII secolo avvalendosi di fotografie digitali in alta definizione, video, scansioni in 3D nonché di una pagina web interattiva.

La Fotografia come strumento e medium della storia dell'arte

Collezioni fotografiche storiche create con l’intento della documentazione storico-artistica costituiscono anche importanti documenti per una storia dei metodi della disciplina.

Photo Archives

'Photo Archives' è una serie aperta di convegni che esplorano le interazioni tra archivi fotografici, fotografia e discipline accademiche.

Etho-Ästhetiken des Visuellen

Die weitreichenden Beziehungen zwischen Kunst, Visualität und Ethik benötigen eine grundlegende Untersuchung. Die Kunst- und Bildgeschichte hat sich d...

Progetti di dottorato

Progetti di post-dottorato

4A Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics

4A_Lab attempts to create a dialog between art history, archaeology, anthropology/ethnology, and aesthetic practices (4A), as well as other disciplines concerned with objects, practices, ecologies, and narratives.