Ianthi Assimakopoulou is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Archaeology at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she teaches European Art History (14th-17th c.). Ianthi holds a PhD in Renaissance Art History from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, from where she has a BA and a MA. She has also completed postgraduate studies in Renaissance Studies and Curatorship at the Warburg Institute and the National Gallery of London. She worked as a researcher for the exhibition “Heads and Tails – Tales and Bodies: Engraving the Human Figure from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period”, held in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, 2016). In 2019 she curated the exhibition “Echoes of Antiquity in El Greco’s Oeuvre”, mounted in the basilica of Saint Mark in Heraklion, El Greco’s birthplace, and edited the accompanying volume. Her publications include the monographs The Offspring of the Medici, a Visual Dialectic between Myth and History, 1537-1609 (2020) and Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus: Aspects of Love and Strife in 16th c. Florence (2023), as well as 20 articles in collective volumes. Ianthi organized an international workshop on “Arion in European Art” (Lesvos, 2022) and co-edited the Thomas Puttfarken Workshops I & II Proceedings (2023) after having organized two Workshops on Italian Renaissance topics. Νow is preparing a workshop on the reception of Longinian ideas in the art of the early modern period and a workshop on issues concerning Studioli (2024). Her research seeks to explore and interpret the “anima” of images, as well as the way in which subjects of great symbolic, intellectual, and emotional power in antiquity reappear, often enriched with multiple layers of meaning, in the art of later periods.
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