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Erik Thunø
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director
Medieval Art
Ph.D, Johns Hopkins, 1999
Biographical Information:
Professor Thunø’s research area focuses on medieval Italy from Constantine
the
Great to the early modern period. His most recent publications are concerned
with the
medieval perception of the image by addressing such topics as the cult of relics,
materiality, and the interaction between image and word. Other interests are
Roman painting in the thirteenth century and late medieval miracle-working images
in Italy during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. His current research
concentrates on medieval apse mosaics.
Recent Publications:
Books:
 Decorating
the Lord’s Table. On the Dynamics between Image and Altar in the
Middle Ages, ed. Søren Kaspersen and Erik Thunø (Copenhagen:
Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006)
Image and Relic. Mediating the Sacred in Early Medieval Rome, Rome:
l’Erma
di Bretschneider, 2002
The Miraculous Image in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. E. Thunø and
G. Wolf, Rome: l’Erma di Bretschneider, 2004
Articles:
“The Golden Altar of St. Ambrose in Milan: Image and Materiality,” in
Decorating the Lord’s Table. On the Dynamics between Image and Altar
in the Middle Ages, ed. Søren Kaspersen and Erik Thunø (Copenhagen:
Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006), 63-79
"Materializing the Invisible in Early Medieval Art: The
Mosaic of Santa Maria in Domnica in Rome," in Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, ed. Giselle de Nie et al., Turnhout: Brepols, 2005
“The Miraculous Image and the Centralized Church. Santa Maria della
Consolazione in Todi,“ in The Miraculous Image in the Late Middle
Ages and Renaissance, ed. E. Thunø and G. Wolf, Rome: l’Erma
di Bretschneider, 2004, 29-57
“The Cult of the Virgin, Icons and Relics in Early Medieval Rome. A
Semiotic Approach,” Acta ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia 17 (2004): 79-98
“Decus suus splendet ceu Phoebus in orbe. Zum Verhältnins von Text
und Bild in der Apsis von Santa Maria in Domnica in Rom,” in Die
Sprache der Bilder. Zur Korrelation und Kontradiktion von Text und Bild im
Wirkungskreis
der Bibel, ed. B. Janowski and N. Zchomelidse, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft,
2003, 147-164
“Some Remarks on the Sta. Barbara Chapel at Ss. Quattro Coronati in Rome” Arte
Medievale 10, 2 (1996): 15-22
“
The Facade Mosaics of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome”
Analecta Romana Instituti Danici 23 (1996): 61-82
Reviews:
Alessandro Tomei: Pietro Cavallini, Milano: Silvana, 2000 in Journal für
Kunstgeschichte 5, 4 (2001): 309-31
Fellowships:
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Clark Art Institute
Carlsberg Foundation
Danish Research Council of the Humanities
Danish Research Academy
Queen Ingrid Foundation for Roman Studies at the Danish Academy in Rome
Fulbright Commission
Johns Hopkins University
Villa Spelman, Florence (Johns Hopkins University)
 Activities:
Session chair at the international conference:
"Interactions. Artistic Interchange between the Eastern and Western Worlds
in the Medieval Period," Princeton Index of Christian Art, Princeton
University, 8-9 April 2005.
Organized with Gerhard Wolf the international conference L’immagine
miracolosa nella cultura tardomedievale e rinascimentale as a collaboration
between the Danish Academy and The Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut
für Kunstgeschichte) in Rome, 31 May - 2 June 2002
Organized and chaired with Søren Kaspersen the double-session Image
and Altar: Interrelationships at the 36th International Congress on Medieval
Studies in Kalamazoo, 3-6 May 2001
Member of editorial board of Analecta Romana Instituti Danici and co-editor
of the volumes 27-30 (2000-2004)
Lectures:
“The Implied Viewer. The Case of Ss. Cosmas and Damian in Rome,” Claremont
Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 42nd International Congress
on Medieval Studies, May 2007, Kalamazoo MI
“Text Image and Time in some Early Christian Mosaics,” Visual
Representation and Cultural History Seminar, Harvard University, April 2006
“The Word made Flesh. Text as Image in Early Christian Rome,” Tensions
between Image and Text in Medieval Art, College Art Association, Boston,
February 2006
“From Neglect to Sacred Space. The Discovery and Institutionalization of the Miracle-Working Image of the Early Modern
Period,” The Sacred and Idolized Image, 28th International Colloquium of Art History, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de México, Instituto de
Investigaciones Estéticas, Campeche, 24-29 October 2004
“Transgressing the Sanctioned Space: The City Moves Closer to God,” Sites
et territoires de l’histoire de l’art, 31e Congrès du Comité international
d’histoire de l’art (CIHA), Montreal, August 2004
“The Miraculous Image in the Italian Renaissance,” Clark Art Institute,
Williamstown, March 2004
“Materializing the Invisible in Ealy Medieval Rome: The Case of S. Maria
in Domnica,” Verbal and Pictorial Imaging. Representing and Accessing
Experience of the Invisible 400-1000, University of Utrecht, December 2003
“The Enamelled Cross from the Sancta Sanctorum: Material and Iconography,” History
of Enamel from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, The Department of Medieval
and Later Antiquities, The British Museum, London, November 1999
“Image and Intercession: The Apse Mosaic of Sta. Maria in Domnica,” Bilder
in Texten - Texte in Bildern. Zur Korrelation und Kontradiktion von Text und
Bild im Wirkungskreis der Bibel, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen,
October 1999
“A Monumental Reliquary: Santa Prassede in Rome,” 33rd International
Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 1998
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