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Major Fields of Interest: Italian Renaissance Art, Devotional practices, Private chapels, Drawings, Making process, Early Modern Embroidery

Graduate Experiences: 

M.A. Art history, University of Montreal, 2015.

Ph.D. Art history, University of Montreal, 2021 (with the highest distinction). Dissertation available on:

to be published by Brepols in 2025 under the title Le Château intérieur. Image, espace et dévotion chez les cardinaux de la Rome post-tridentine

Postdoctoral Fellowships :

• Niki (Dutch Institute for Art History), Florence, 2022-2023.
• British School at Rome, 2024.

Postdoctoral research project: Drawing and Praying: Rethinking Religious Sketches in Sixteenth-Century Italian Art

Supervisor: Una Roman D’Elia

Publications:

• « “con obligo di celebrare ogn’anno messe cinquanta per l’anima mia” : La Madonna della Ghiara entre Reggio Emilia et Rome », Images re-vues. Hors-série 12, 2024 : «Comprendre les images pré-industrielles comme des médias multimodaux : agentivité, performance et médialogie dans l’étude des objets visuels », (dir. Marianne Cailloux e Claudia Quattrocchi), Online: .
• « Icône publique, dévotion privée : la Madonna della Clemenza dans le palais du cardinal Altemps à Rome », Anne Friederike Delouis et coll. (dir.), Rituels de la vie publique et privée, du Moyen Âge à nos jours, Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2021, p. 51-79.
• « L’immagine della purezza : Ippolito II d’Este e la costruzione della figura del cardinale devoto », in I cardinali protettori delle corone e le arti in età moderna (dir. Émilie Corswarem e Aldo Roma), Roma, Viella, forthcoming.
• « Devozione in villa », Valentina Burgassi, Claudio Castelletti, Alessandro Spila (dir.), Ville e giardini della Tuscia nel Cinquecento. Storia, arte, architettura, Rome : Casa Editrice Quasar, forthcoming.

Stream: Treatment

Specialization: Painting

Areas of interest: pigments, Oil paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th century

Nerine Cavadias graduated from the University of Guelph in 2023 with a Bachelor of Arts Honours, majoring in Studio Art and minoring in Art History. During her studies she developed her own artistic practice, specializing in painting and drawing. Before coming to �鶹����s, Nerine completed an internship at Toronto Art Restoration INC. where she digitized an archive of yearbooks and completed the digital restoration of photographic media. 

Major Fields of Interest: Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee cultural creations, stone materialities, decolonial methodologies and techniques of material analysis

Undergraduate Experience: B.A.H. Art History, �鶹���� (2016)

Graduate Experiences:

M.Sc. Cultural Heritage Materials and Technologies (2019); University of the Peloponnese - Kalamata, Greece.

M.A.C. Art Conservation – Treatment Steam (2018); �鶹����

PhD Research Project: Stories in Stone: Multi-level analysis of ground stone tools at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

Supervisor: Dr. Norman Vorano

Major Fields of Interest: contemporary art, curating art, biennials

Undergraduate Experience: Bachelor of Arts Honours �鶹����, Art History Major, History Minor

MA Research Project Topic: Quasi-Embassies and the Advantages of Historic Visibility at the 60th Venice Biennale

Supervisor: Dr. Jen Kennedy

Major Fields of Interest: Baroque Art

Undergraduate Experience: �鶹����, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) with Art History Minor.

MA Topic: Italian Baroque Paintings

Supervisor: Dr. Gauvin Bailey

Major Fields of Interest: Canadian history & visual culture, critical heritage studies, conservation of heritage sites and objects, museum & tourism programming

Undergraduate Experience: BAH in Art History at �鶹����'s University

Major Fields of Interest: Indian traditional narrative arts; traditional crafts; intangible cultural heritage; transition of tradition into commodity culture; role of a museum in preservation of tradition, stories, memories and other intangible heritage; communication between the museum and artisan communities.

Undergraduate Experience: BFA in Art History, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India (2012)

Graduate Experience: MFA in Art History, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India (2014).

MA Thesis Title: “Revisiting the Era of the Pan-Asian Ideals: 1900-1950”

MA Research Project Topic: The thesis reflects on the nationalist movement that influenced the art and education of Bengal and the collaboration among the Indian and Japanese thinkers paving the way towards a profound ideal of Pan-Asianism.

Supervisor: Dr. Antonia Behan

Major Fields of Interest: Symbolism, Metaphysics, the traditional sciences (astrology, alchemy, etc.) and such as it relates to religious art of eastern and western cultures

Undergraduate Experience: Bachelor of Science from Northeastern University in Music/Music Industry

Major Fields of Interest: Research Creation (Painting & Printmaking), Creating en plein air (outdoors), Canadian Art

Undergraduate Experience: B.F.A. (Honours), minor Art History, �鶹����

Graduate Experience: M.F.A. Visual Art, University of Regina

Supervisor: Dr. Norman Vorano

Major Fields of Interest: Renaissance Polychrome Sculpture, Gendered Piety, Performance in the Renaissance

Undergraduate Experience: BFAH focused on Painting, �鶹����

Supervisor: Dr. Una D’Elia