The Department of of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca' Foscari University of Venice invites applications for a position in the field of History of Byzantine Art.

Research activity will concern medieval Byzantine art from the Mediterranean and Christian East. It relates in particular to the study of architecture, sculpture, paintings, drawings, miniatures and the applied arts, as well as medieval artisan production in the Adriatic area as well as in the eastern Mediterranean area, in north Africa, the Balkans and Caucasus; studies will be carried out using tools from the fields of iconography and iconology, literature and sociology of art, with reference to the history of the discipline and its epistemology, also with the aim of enhancing museum education.