Tutor information
Andrea Mattiello
Dr Andrea Mattiello holds a PhD from the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies University of Birmingham, and another PhD from the School for Advanced Studies in Venice. He has published and lectured on Medieval, Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture, queer art in Antiquity, female agency in Byzantium and Greek-Italian exchanges in fifteenth-century Humanism. He has held a number of prestigious research fellowships and has lectured at Università IUAV of Venice, the University of Birmingham, Università di Salerno, Christie’s Education London and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He co-edited the volume Late Byzantium Reconsidered and is currently working on the queens at the late Palaiologan Byzantine court in Mystras.
Courses
Reassess the role of women in the Byzantine world by studying case studies where visual arts, architecture, and material culture reveal female agency.
The course will examine a broad selection of artistic case studies to understand how societies, visual arts, culture, and artists have responded to climate changes in the context of the Mediterranean basin, from Antiquity to the present.
Fashion was employed across the Mediterranean to express agency, power, influence and wealth. We will examine material culture and the depiction of fashion in art to better understand of Medieval and early Modern Mediterranean societies.