
Maria Alessia Rossi
Profile
Maria Alessia Rossi’s main research interests include medieval monumental art in the Byzantine and Slavic cultural spheres, cross-cultural contacts between the Eastern and Western Christian world, and the role of miracles in text and image. Her latest research project focuses on healing, water, and art in connection with the cult of the Zoodochos Pege.
Rossi joined the Index of Medieval Art initially as a Postdoctoral Researcher, and starting in September 2019, as an Art History Specialist. She is the co-founder, together with Alice I. Sullivan, of the initiative North of Byzantium, of the digital platform Mapping Eastern Europe, and is the co-editor of the Trivent book series Eastern European Visual Culture and Byzantium (13th–17th c.). Together with Julia Gearhart, they are working on a multi-year project titled Connecting Histories: The Princeton and Mount Athos Legacy.
Education
Ph.D., The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (UK) 2017
Selected Publications
Rossi M.A., Visualizing Christ's Miracles in Late Byzantium: Art, Theology, and Court Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Recipient of the Mary Jaharis Publication Grant.
Rossi M.A., Sullivan A. I., eds., The Routledge Handbook of Byzantine Visual Culture in the Danube Regions, 1300–1600 (Routledge, 2024).
Rossi M.A., Sullivan A. I., “Rethinking the Medieval Visual Culture of Eastern Europe: Two Case Studies in Dialogue (Serbia and Wallachia)” Arts 12 (2023) 233.
Rossi M.A., “Christ’s Miracles in the Palaiologan Period: Narratives of Salvation in Text and Image” in Brodbeck S., Poilpré A. – O., Rapti I., eds., Histoires chrétiennes en images: espace, temps et structure de la narration. Byzance et Moyen Âge occidental (Éditions de la Sorbonne, Byzantina Sorbonensia 32, 2022), 309–26.
Rossi M.A., Sullivan A. I., eds., Eclecticism in Late Medieval Visual Culture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Cultural Spheres (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021).
Co-authored with Giulia Puma, “Metapainting in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium and Italy: Performing Devotion Through Time and Space” Studies in Iconography 42 (2021) 95–116.
Rossi M.A., “Beyond the Serbo-Byzantine Identity of St George at Staro Nagoričino” in Afterlife of Byzantine Monuments in Post-Byzantine Times. Special issue Études Byzantines et Post-Byzantines, III (X) (2021), ed. Boeck E., 17–41.
Rossi M.A., “Monumental Art” in Curta F., ed., Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300 (New York: Routledge, 2021), 506–29.
Rossi M.A., Sullivan A. I., eds., Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020).
Mattiello, A., Rossi M. A. eds., Late Byzantium Reconsidered: The Arts of the Palaiologan Era in the Mediterranean (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019).
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