Address book
Contacts
CHIARA PONCHIA
Position
Professoressa Associata
Structure
Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali: archeologia, storia dell'arte, del cinema e della musica (DBC)
Address
PIAZZA CAPITANIATO, 7 - PALAZZO LIVIANO - PADOVA
Telephone
0498274621
Current Appointment
19th April 2021 – now Associate Professor, University of Padua, Department of Cultural Heritage.
Previous Appointment
19th February 2018 – 18th April 2021 Assistant professor (tenure-track, RTD/b), University of Padua, Department of Cultural Heritage.
1st March 2015 - 28th February 2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padua, with the project Word and Image in the Illuminated Manuscripts of the Padua University Library.
1st May 2013 – 30th April 2014 Research Grant at DEI – Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, with the project Study and digital documentation of the illuminated illustration of the Divine Comedy in Northern Italy in the 14th century.
2nd May 2011 – 30th April 2013 Research collaborator at DEI – Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua. Main activities: selection, cataloguing and analysis of the illustration of the Divine Comedy manuscripts (14th-15th centuries) to create a digital archive of text and images.
Education
4th April 2014 PhD with Doctor Europaeus label at the University of Padua, with a thesis entitled: Frammenti dell’Aldilà. Immagini nella Divina Commedia nell’Italia settentrionale del Trecento, under the supervision of prof. F. Toniolo.
9th July 2010 MA Degree in History of Art magna cum laude at the University of Padua, with a thesis entitled Per la storia dell’illustrazione della Divina Commedia: il codice It.IX.276 della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, under the supervision of prof. G. Mariani Canova.
12th July 2007 BA Degree in History and Conservation of Cultural Heritage magna cum laude at the University of Padua, with a thesis entitled Il commento di Jacopo della Lana alla Commedia dantesca (Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, It. Z. 55): tre inedite miniature veneziane della prima metà del Trecento, under the supervision of prof. F. Toniolo.
International experience
18th – 25th February 2019 Kennedy Family Visiting Scholar, University of South Florida, Tampa.
16th September 2012 – 18th December 2012 Visiting PhD student, Trinity College, Dublin.
15th September 2008 – 15th March 2009 Erasmus student, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca.
Main participation in national and international research project
7th January 2021 – now Dipingere Tito Livio: manoscritti miniati delle Decadi in Italia settentrionale (Secoli XIV-XV), “BIRD - Budget Integrato per la ricerca interdipartimentale”, Department for Cultural Heritage, University of Padua.
1st January – 31st December 2019 Arte e devozione. Miniature per la liturgia del Museo Civico Correr di Venezia, “PRD - Progetto di Ricerca dipartimentale 2019”, Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Padua.
1st January – 31st December 2018 Citazione, riuso e revival nella pittura e nella miniatura di area veneta tra Trecento e Quattrocento, “PRD - Progetto di Ricerca dipartimentale 2018, Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Padua.
15th May 2018 – 15th May 2019 Renaissance Manuscripts and Modern Memory, “Nexus Initiative (UNI) Award”, University of South Florida.
1st February 2011 – 31st January 2014 “CULTURA – CULTivating Understanding and Research through Adaptivity”, European project co-funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission.
Notices
Teachings
INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART HISTORY: CONCEPTS AND METHODS, AA 2025 (SUQ1098759)
MEDIEVAL ROUTES, AA 2025 (SUQ1095267)
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE RESEARCH AND TEACHING OF ART HISTORY: FROM THE MINIATURE BOOK TO DIGITAL LIBRARIES, AA 2025 (SUQ2100839)
INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART HISTORY: CONCEPTS AND METHODS, AA 2024 (SUQ1098759)
INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART HISTORY: CONCEPTS AND METHODS, AA 2023 (SUQ1098759)
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ART, AA 2023 (LE33108198)
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE RESEARCH AND TEACHING OF ART HISTORY: FROM THE MINIATURE BOOK TO DIGITAL LIBRARIES, AA 2023 (SUQ2100839)
Area di ricerca
My research focuses on illuminated manuscripts as a key to medieval culture, which in manuscripts is revealed in the text-image relationship and in the stylistic and iconographic analysis of miniatures. I have been particularly interested in the genesis and development of illuminated illustrations of the Divine Comedy in the Po Valley in the 14th and 15th centuries, a subject to which I have devoted two monographs (("Frammenti dell’Aldilà. Miniature trecentesche della Divina Commedia", 2015; D. Guernelli-C. Ponchia, "La Divina Commedia ms. 9 della Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile di Padova", 2018) and other studies (such as "Le fonti illustrative delle miniature del Dante Egerton", 2015; "La vita nascosta delle immagini. L’influenza dell’antico sulle prime illustrazioni della Divina Commedia", 2016). I have also taken part in major cataloguing projects of illuminated manuscripts resulting in valuable exhibitions and catalogues, such as"La bellezza nei libri. Cultura e devozione nei manoscritti miniati della Biblioteca Universitaria di Padova", exhibition catalogue edited by C. Ponchia (2017) and "Le miniature della Fondazione Giorgio Cini", edited by M. Medica-F. Toniolo(2016), to which I contributed with 13 catalogue entries.
Thanks to my participation in the European project CULTURA (2011-2014) I extended my research to the area of Digital Humanities, dealing in particular with the use of digital resources to support art-historical research ("Dante. A web-application for the History of Art", 2014) and user studies ("Engaging the User: Elaboration and Execution of Trials with a Database of Illuminated Images", 2013; M. AGOSTI-N. IRON-N. ORIO-C. PONCHIA, "CULTURA Outcomes for Improving the User's Engagement with Cultural Heritage Collections," 2014).
