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Dr Robert Maniura

Positions held:
  • Professor of History of Art, School of Historical Studies
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    After a previous career in financial management in industry, I studied the history of art at the Courtauld Institute, taking my PhD in 1998.

    I have held Fellowships at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and the Netherlands Inter-University Art History Institute in Florence, a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship and a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.

    I joined ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú in 2001. I lecture on the art of both Northern and Southern Europe in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance at BA and MA level. I welcome enquiries about potential research in Medieval and Renaissance art.

  • Research

    Research

    Research overview

    My recent research has concentrated on the role of the visual in devotion in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, with a special focus on images associated with miracles. I have pursued these interests in two books: Pilgrimage to Images in the Fifteenth Century: The Origins of the Cult of Our Lady of CzÄ™stochowa (2004) and Art and Miracle in Renaissance TuscanyÌý(2018).

    Much of my research has focused on the fifteenth century and my current project, begun with the support of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, explores the implications of taking a broader view of the art of that conventionally pivotal period.

    Research Centres and Institutes

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  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    Supervisions within ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú:
    3

    I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in undertaking research on any aspect of Late medieval or early Renaissance art.

    Current doctoral researchers

    • TORBEN LUND
      Nature of supervision:
      JOINT PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR
      Title of thesis:
      How portraiture can explore the fashioning of Protestant Identity in the sixteenth century: a comparative study of England, Denmark-Norway and Sweden.
    • FERRY LICHTENBERG
      Nature of supervision:
      PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
      Title of thesis:
      The Methodological Application of Semiotics and Social Factors in Visual Culture: Case Studies from Mediaeval Guelders
    • MORAG MCLINTOCK
      Nature of supervision:
      PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
      Title of thesis:
      Art, Family and Status in Fourteenth Century Italy: the Lupi in Parma, Padua and Florence.

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • European Art in the Fifteenth Century: Beyond Autumn and Rebirth
    • The Artwork in History
    • MA Dissertation
    • Frameworks: Histories and Theories of Art, Architecture, Photography
    • Dissertation
    • Debates in Art History
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Maniura, Robert (2024) . Art History 47 (3), pp. 462-491. ISSN 0141-6790.
    • Maniura, Robert (2020) . Oxford Art Journal ISSN 0142-6540.
    • Maniura, Robert (2009) . Oxford Art Journal 32 (3), pp. 409-425. ISSN 0142-6540.
    • Maniura, Robert (2009) . Critical Inquiry 35 (3), pp. 629-654. ISSN 0093-1896.

    Book

    • Maniura, Robert (2018) . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108551649.
    • Maniura, Robert (2004) . Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. ISBN 1843830558.

    Book section

    • Maniura, Robert (2025) . In: Gerrits, R. and Liberman, A. (eds.) Reproducing Miracles: On Media and the Miraculous in Early Modern Europe. Poesis. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. pp. 149-166. ISBN 9783770568987.
    • Maniura, Robert (2022) . In: Wilson, K. and Clark, L. (eds.) Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700. Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. pp. 83-100. ISBN 9781800856349.
    • Maniura, Robert (2021) . In: Luxford, J. (ed.) Tributes to Paul Binski: Medieval Gothic: Art, Architecture and Ideas. Tributes. Brepols Publishers. pp. 366-371. ISBN 9781912554744.
    • Maniura, Robert (2020) . In: Leutrat, E. and Balzamo, N. (eds.) L’image miraculeuse dans le christianisme occidental (Moyen Âge - Temps moderne). Renaissance. Presses universitaires François-Rabelais. pp. 229-239. ISBN 9782869067349.
    • Maniura, Robert (2017) . In: Jurkowlaniec, G. and Matyjaszkiewicz, I. and Sarnecka, Z. (eds.) The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art: Materials, Power and Manipulation. Routledge Research in Art History. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 63. ISBN 9781138054226.
    • Maniura, Robert (2016) . In: Jurkowlaniec, G. and Matyjaszkiewicz, I. and Sarnecka, Z. (eds.) The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art: Materials, Power and Manipulation. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 63. ISBN 9781138054226.
    • Maniura, Robert (2013) . In: Davies, P. and Howard, D. and Pullan, W. (eds.) Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000–1500: Southern Europe and Beyond. Basingstoke, UK: Ashgate. pp. 213-230. ISBN 9781472410832.
    • Maniura, Robert (2011) . In: Opacic, Zoe and Timmermann, A. (eds.) Image, Memory and Devotion: Liber Amicorum Paul Crossley. Studies in Gothic Art. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. pp. 129-134. ISBN 9782503531687.

    Conference item

    • Maniura, Robert (2022) . L’or à la Renaissance en Europe occidentale. Approches interdisciplinaires, 2022, Paris, France
    • Maniura, Robert (2019) . Annual Lecture of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture, University of Durham, 2019, Durham, UK
    • Maniura, Robert Balzamo, Nicolas and Boltanski, Ariane and Leutrat, Estelle, eds. . L’image miraculeuse : théories, pratiques et représentations dans le monde chrétien XIVe-XVIIe s, Rennes, France
    • Maniura, Robert . Annual Conference of the British Archaeological Association. KoÅ¡ice: Medieval Art and Architecture in Eastern Slovakia, KoÅ¡ice, Slovakia
    • Maniura, Robert . Cult to Culture: The Artistic Impact of Miraculous Images, Florence, Italy