Laura Pasquini

Laura Pasquini is an art historian at the University of Bologna. Particularly interested in the iconological results of the artistic production of the late ancient and medieval period, she has dealt in various publications with the topics of Christian Art and Archaeology, partly collected in her first volume Decorazione a stucco in Italia fra Tardo Antico e Alto Medioevo (Longo 2002). She then turned more decidedly toward Medieval iconography topics, studied from an iconological perspective, with particular regard to the mosaic image, that is, the medieval floor of the 11th and 12th centuries (Bobbio, Cremona, Aosta, Venice, Pavia and Otranto in particular) understood as a vehicle of symbolic motifs. Several of his contributions are published in the Proceedings of the Colloquia of the Associazione italiana per lo studio e la conservazione del mosaico (AISCOM). His most recent work and research deal with Dante's iconography, the figurative representation of the city of Bologna, the iconography of the Afterlife, of the devil and of the hell. Author of numerous publications, she has curated the setup of museums and temporary exhibitions.