ASSOCIATE LECTURER
Licia Buttà is an associate professor of History of Medieval Art, where she has taught postgraduate and undergraduate courses since 2005.
She has a doctorate in Medieval Art History from the University of Barcelona, a specialist in Archeology and Art History from the University of Siena and a degree in Classical Studies from the University of Palermo.
Her research focuses on the study of the text / image relationship, visual culture and the mobility of artists and works in the medieval Mediterranean, as well as the cultural history of dance from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. She has been she is a member of the Advisory Board and responsible for the historical-artistic research for the restoration of the painted ceiling of the Sala Magna of the Steri-Chiaromonte Palace in Palermo (2017-2019).
She coordinates the international research group Iconodanza and is the Principal Investigator of the project "Hterotopías coréuticas, danza y representación en la cultura visual y literaria del Mediterráneo desde la Antigüedad tardía hasta la Edad Media HAR2017-85625-P". (2017-2021)
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Latests works:
- Licia Buttà, Peregrinus et exorcista: el nacimiento legendario de San Bartolomé en la hagiografía y la cultura visual de la Edad Media, Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 51, 2 2021
- Licia Buttà et Adrien Belgrano, La danse immobile : iconographie et geste chorégraphique au Moyen Âge, Perspective /Danser, 2020, 2
- Schemata, formae e rituali coreutici tra Antichità, Medioevo ed Età moderna, Licia Buttà, Luigi Canetti, Donatella Tronca (dir.), Mantichora, Italian Journal of Performance Studies, 10, 2020.
- Licia Buttà, Dalla Valenza Internazionale a Siracusa: un'aggiunta al catalogo del Maestro di Santa Maria, Urso, P. Vitolo, E. Piazza (eds.) Un isola nel contesto mediterraneo. Politica, cultura e arte nella Sicilia e nell'Italia meridionale in età medievale e moderna, Bari, 2018
- Licia Buttà, "Mudéjar", Islamic Influence or Memory of the Past? Some Considerations on the Wooden Painted Ceiling of the Palazzo Chiaromonte-Steri in Palermo, Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies, 2017, 4