Lecture of Professor Michele Bacci postponed

The Institute for Balkan Studies of SASA is organizing a lecture of Michele Bacci, professor of Medieval Art at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and an ordinary member of Academia Europea at the SASA Hall 2, on Wednesday, 11 March, at 11 a.m. On that occasion, Prof. Michele Bacci will speak about fourteenth-century Italian and Byzantine art intertwining, through examples of altar paintings representing Holy Virgin, highlighting close artistic and cultural ties which existed among Venice, Crete and the Balkans.

Professor Michele Bacci is one of the most prominent authorities on the subject of medieval artistic interactions in the Mediterranean in the coupling of Byzantine and Italian cultural and spiritual spheres. He has written several monographs and papers in which he analysed historical phenomenology of holy sites, icons and other cult objects.

He has fostered close cooperation with our historians of Serbian, Byzantine and medieval art of Pomorje. He is a member of an international team for the restoration of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. He has received Hanno and Ilse Hahn Prize awarded by Bibliotheca Hertziana-Max-Planck-Gesellschaft from Rome.