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Dr Georgios Markou
Georgios Markou is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of History of Art. He specializes in the art of Renaissance Venice and the Early Modern Mediterranean.
Academic interests
Georgios Markou鈥檚 academic interests include:
- Renaissance Venice
- Early Modern Mediterranean
- Cultural exchange
- Exilic art
- Artist biographies.
Degrees obtained
- BA, Athens.
- MA, Warwick.
- PhD, Cantab.
Awards and prizes
- Rome Fellow, British School at Rome, 2019-2020.
- Hannah Seeger Davis Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University, 2018-2019.
Biography
Georgios Markou read Archaeology and History of Art at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, before going to the University of Warwick, where he took an MA on Venice and Its Legacies. In 2018, he obtained his PhD at 水果派AV College, and subsequently held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton University and at the British School at Rome. Georgios returned to Cambridge in Autumn 2021 as Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of History of Art.
His project proposes an alternative artistic history of the Early Modern Mediterranean. Foregrounding the fundamental role of exiled artists as agents of artistic innovation, it questions recent models of cultural exchange, and brings marginalized traditions and geographies into relation with major artistic centres.
His research has been supported by the American Philosophical Society, Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Francis Haskell Memorial Fund and the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art at the University of Cambridge.
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Publications, links and resources
- Markou, G.E. (2021) 鈥淛acopo Tintoretto, his heirs and the family enterprise鈥, The Burlington Magazine 163, pp. 718-723.
- Markou, G.E. (2020) 鈥淎n early owner of a Virgin and Child by Giovanni Bellini: the testament of Hieremia Voltera鈥, Arte Veneta 77, pp. 228-231
- Markou, G.E. (2020) 鈥淭addeo Zuccaro and the Pucci Chapel in Santissima Trinit脿 dei Monti, Rome鈥, Source: Notes in the History of Art 39, pp. 241-251.
- Markou, G.E. (2019) 鈥淭he inventory of the Sadeler Venetian Printing shop鈥, Print Quarterly 36, pp. 379-389.
- Markou, G.E. (2019) 鈥淣egotiating Identity and Status: The silverware of the Cypriot nobles in Renaissance Venice鈥, in M. Olympios and M. Parani eds, The art and archaeology of Lusignan and Venetian Cyprus (1192-1571): Recent research and new discoveries. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 301-320.
- Markou, G.E. (2017) 鈥淏onifacio de鈥 Pitati鈥檚 Triumphs of Petrarch and their Cypriot Patron鈥, The Burlington Magazine 159, pp. 600-609.
