Profile

Biography

 BA, MA (Zagreb); PhD (York)

I have been researching early medieval sculpture since 2001, and I specialise in sculpture produced in the Adriatic basin (c. 750 to c.1100). My BA and MA dissertations focused on the earlier part of this period, predominantly ninth-century sculptures from Croatia including their liturgical function and architectural setting. I completed my PhD in July 2011, supervised by Dr Jane Hawkes. The thesis ‘Sermons in Stone’: Eleventh-century Figural Sculptures from Croatia analysed and interpreted this material from an iconographic and symbolical point of view, considering for the first time these hitherto neglected aspects from a region which does not often appear in art-historical publications. I am currently preparing the results of my doctoral research for publication as articles and I am developing a book proposal.

Research

Overview

My research interests include:

• Early medieval sculpture c. 700-1100
• Architectural setting of sculptures
• Late antique heritage
• Cross-cultural relationships between the East and West
• The Adriatic area
• Carolingian and Ottonian art and architecture

Conference papers

‘Eastern Poses, Western Props: Iconography of the Virgin in Eleventh-Century Sculpture in Croatia’ Global Middle Ages 2012, University of Edinburgh, accepted.

‘Heavenly guardians: representations of griffins in eleventh-century Croatian sculpture’, International Medieval Congress 2008, Leeds.

‘Early Christian fonts in Dalmatia’, International Medieval Congress 2005, Leeds.

Grants

2006   
Teaching scholarship, Department of History of Art, University of York

2006   
Scholarship for Overseas Students, University of York

2006   
Frankopan Fund grant from the Staples Trust

2004   
Scholarship of The British Scholarship Trust for the research project Anglo-Saxon figural sculpture, undertaken at the University of York and supervised by Dr Jane Hawkes

2003   
Scholarship C.I.S.A.M. (Centro Italiano degli Studi sull’Alto Medioevo)  for the International Congress on the Middle Ages, Spoleto2002    Scholarship Alpe-Adria for the research project Early Medieval monuments of Friuli, undertaken at the Università di Udine and supervised by Dr Andrea de Marchi

Publications

Selected publications

 Articles in Journals

‘Marble Relief With Enthroned Christ From Rab’, Starohrvatska prosvjeta (Journal of early Croatian studies) 39 (2012), submitted for peer review.

‘Early Christian basilica on the site of Jaz at Novalja’, Diadora 22 (2007), 159-171.

‘Contribution to the study of early medieval sculpture on the island of Krk’, Starohrvatska prosvjeta (Journal of early Croatian studies) 33 (2006), 59-89.

‘Examples of early Christian sculptures from Novalja’, Peristil 49 (2006), 27-34.

‘Early medieval ciborium from Novalja’, Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the History of Art Institute) 29 (2005), 7-16.

‘Fragments of pre-Romanesque and early Romanesque sculpture at Nin’, Adrias 11 (2004), 103-117.

 

Chapters in Books

‘Early medieval sculpture on the island of Pag’ in Fragmenta Sculpta: Early medieval stone sculpture of Quarnero (ed. M. Vicelja), exhibition catalogue, Rijeka 2009, forthcoming.