Gianluigi Viscione

At the University of Florence, in January 2023, he obtained his PhD in Art History, under the supervision of Guido Tigler, discussing a thesis entitled: Dynamics of material reuse and archaising recovery of early medieval sculpture in the Romanesque period. Spolia, pseudospolia and archaism in Tuscany and Abruzzo (forthcoming). She is currently a research fellow at the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna within the project ‘DAISI. Digital anastylosis and interactive interpretation of spaces: new methodologies for art history. Some exemplary cases of late-medieval Italian churches (13th-15th centuries)’, under the supervision of Fabio Massaccesi, for the reconstruction of the 13th-century layout of the church of San Domenico in Bologna. His research topics embrace the reuse and recovery of the abstract language of the Early Middle Ages in 12th and 13th century sculpture, sometimes leading to the creation of false spolia, the forms of liturgical space, funerary sculpture and artistic relations between the shores of the Mediterranean.