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Antonio Iacobini is a graduate of La Sapienza University, Rome (MA in History of Art), where he also furthered his studies (Postgraduate School in Medieval and Modern Art History). In 1984-85 he was awarded the Fondazione “R. Longhi” scholarship, Florence. He was Lecturer and Associated Professor in History of Byzantine Art and Medieval Art at Urbino University (1988-98); in November 2000 he became Full Professor for History of Book Illumination and Byzantine Art at La Sapienza University. He taught at Palackého University, Olomouc, and at the Postgraduate Schools in Florence, Bologna, Palermo and Milan Cattolica.

On behalf of the "International Committee for the Restoration of the Tower of Pisa", he supervised documentary research on the monument (1991-95). He presided over several study missions on Byzantine Art, on behalf of Universities La Sapienza of Rome, Padua and Urbino, in Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Greece. He has been general supervisor of the editorial staff of "Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale" Treccani directed by A.M. Romanini (1984-2002); he is currently member of the scientific board of academic journals such as "Arte Medievale" (co-Director), "Nea Rhome", "Rivista di Storia della Miniatura", and editor-in-chief of the series "Milion. Studi e ricerche d'arte bizantina" and “Corpus della pittura monumentale bizantina in Italia”. He is member of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia, of the Istituto Siciliano di Studi Bizantini, of the Società Internazionale di Storia della Miniatura, of the Italian delegation in the CIHA, of the Centro Studi Longobardi. He has been member of the Directing Board of the Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini (2007-12); member of the Universitary Commission of the Swiss Institute in Rome (2005-14); Director of the Phd Program in History of Art, La Sapienza University, Rome (2010-13).

He took part to the scientific planning of several international congresses and exhibitions, such as: “Fragmenta picta. Affreschi e mosaici staccati del Medioevo romano” (exhibition: Roma, Castel S. Angelo, 1989); “L’arte profana a Bisanzio” (congress: Roma, CNR, 1990); “Ratio fecit diversum. San Bernardo e le arti” (congress: Roma, Accademia dei Lincei, 1991); “Anno 1300, il primo Giubileo: Bonifacio VIII e il suo tempo” (exhibition: Roma, Palazzo Venezia, 2000); “Il Trionfo sul Tempo. Manoscritti illustrati dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei” (exhibition: Roma, Calcografia Nazionale, 2002); “Le porte del Paradiso. Arte e tecnologia bizantina tra Italia e Mediterraneo” (congress: Istituto Svizzero di Roma, 2006); “Voyages et conscience patrimoniale. Aubin-Louis Millin (1759-1818) entre France et Italie” (congress: Paris, Institut National du Patrimoine–Roma, Sapienza, 2008); “La Sapienza bizantina. Un secolo di ricerche sulla civiltà di Bisanzio all’Università di Roma” (congress: Roma, Sapienza, 2008); “La mosaïque byzantine et sa diffusion (XI^e-XII^e siècles): travail, techniques et matériaux, restauration” (round table: XXII^e Congrès International des Études Byzantines, Sofia 2011); “Medioevo tra Occidente e Mediterraneo” (congress: Sapienza, 2014); “Medioevo Ritrovato. Il patrimonio artistico della Puglia e dell'Italia meridionale prima e dopo Aubin-Louis Millin” (congress: Sapienza, 2017); “Picturing a Lost Empire. An Italian Lens on Byzantine Art in Anatolia, 1960-2000” (exhibition: Istanbul, ANAMED, 2018); “Incontri mediterranei. Arte e artisti tra l’Europa e Bisanzio dopo la Quarta Crociata (1204-1430)” (congress: Sapienza - Real Academia de España, 2019).

His scientific interests deal with Early Christian, Byzantine and medieval visual culture, Art and Technology in the medieval Mediterranean world, History of Byzantine and medieval art historiography and collecting.

He undertook a considerable body of research (1989-2018) for Urbino University, La Sapienza University, CNR and MUR, receiving fundings PRIN-Research Projects of National Interest (1994; 1995; 1996; 1998; 2000; 2004; 2009; 2017).
 

KEYWORDS: Early Christian, Byzantine and medieval visual culture (painting, mosaic, book illumination); Byzantine and medieval iconography; Art and technology in the medieval Mediterranean world; History of Byzantine and medieval art historiography (18th-20th cc.)