NAFSIKA-SOTIRIA LITSARDOPOULOU / Assistant Professor
Nafsika Litsardopoulou is Assistant Professor (tenured) at the Department of Theory and History of Art of the Athens School of Fine Arts.
She teaches Early Modern Art History from the Renaissance through the 17th century. Her field of expertise is the Flemish and Dutch theory and history of painting of the 17th century. Her special interests include the relationship of images to primary textual sources, theoretical and critical approaches, patronage and market issues, the question of national identities, the relationship between certain artistic genres and their ideological and social period contexts.
Her recent publications include “Karel van Mander. Σχετικά με την τοπιογραφία (1604)” (introduction, transl, comments). Ιστορία της Τέχνης, τεύχος 11 (Φθινόπωρο 2022), pp. 152-161, «Εικόνα χωρίς λόγο; Η περίπτωση της ιστορικής φωτογραφίας του Erwin Olaf», in Νίκος Ερηνάκης, Φανή Παραφόρου (ed.), Εικόνα/Λόγος. Ερευνητικά ζητήματα και σύγχρονες προσεγγίσεις. Αθήνα, Εκδόσεις Στιγμός, 2022, pp. 177-199, “Peter Paul Rubens De Imitatione Statuarum” (introduction, transl, comments). Ιστορία της Τέχνης, τεύχος 10 (Φθινόπωρο 2021), pp. 134-136, “The Animal as Agent of the Sublime in Rembrandt’s Narratives of Ovid’s Metamorphoses”, Philosophia (Springer) 2021, DOI 10.1007/s11406-021-00372-0. She is the author of the monographs Η Ζωγραφική Παραγωγή των Κάτω Χωρών κατά τον 17ο αιώνα. Athens, I. Sideris Publications, 2015, Τα Συναισθήματα και το Υψηλό. Η αντίληψη της έκφρασής τους στην ιστορική ζωγραφική του Rembrandt. Εκδόσεις Ευρασία, 2019, The Emotions and the Sublime in Rembrandt’s History Painting. Expression and Perception. Athens, I. Sideris Publications, 2021.
Email: nlitsardopoulou@asfa.gr
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