Prof. Ziva Amishai-Maisels
A researcher of Modern Art and Modern Jewish Art. Israel Prize winner for Art History in 2004.>>>
For an appointment, contact: maisels@huji.ac.il.
A researcher of Modern Art and Modern Jewish Art. Israel Prize winner for Art History in 2004.>>>
For an appointment, contact: maisels@huji.ac.il.
(1920-2004)
Alexander is a third year B.A student in the Department of Art History and the History Department. He is especially interested in Late Antiquity and Medieval Art. Alexander is a teaching assistant in two introductory courses.
Prof. Cohen-Mushlin is an expert on Latin and Hebrew illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, and researches Jewish architecture from Antiquity to Modern times.>>>
She received her doctorate from the Warburg Institute in London and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From 1981 until she retired in 2006 she taught in the Department of Art History, and published 3 books on Latin illuminated manuscripts and many articles. She collaborated with other scholars on producing facsimile editions of Jewish illuminated manuscripts, and during 12 years edited the annual Jewish Art. From 1991 to 2006 she was the head of the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University, and founded its section for Architecture, leading many delegations of researchers to document the Jewish Art which was falling into ruins throughout the world and led several important research projects. In 1994, Prof. Cohen-Mushlin founded the Bet Tfila Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe at the Technical University of Braunschweig "House of Prayer" and she remains its Director. In 2009 she was given a medal of honor by the President of Germany.
An art historian and archeologist who specializes in Islamic material culture. >>>
As an archeologist in Jerusalem Dr. Da'adli has studied the Mamila cemetery, the Al Qaymuriyya Mausoleum in Jerusalem, the quarters around the Cotton Merchants Market and the Beit HaBad Market. As an art historian he has written his doctorate on the school of painting that developed in the city of Herat in today's Afghanistan, in the time of Sultan Husayn, last of the Timurid rulers.
Recently he has been researching the wall paintings of the Ummayad Palace in Jericho, trying to reconstruct a series of paintings there that have never been properly published since the excavations done under the British Mandate. Another recent research project concerns Lod, where local excavations have been taking place for years. As part of that research, he is trying to understand the city's civic structure near the end of the Ottoman Period.
Dr. Da'adli was a Buber scholar from 2012 to 2015. In 2016, he received a fellowship from the Council of Higher Education to encourage young researchers who have been accepted to teach in Israel's universities.
Reception hour: By appointment only.
A researcher into Italian Art of the 15th and 16th centuries in Florence, Rome, Venice, Parma and Correggio.>>>
At the end of her high school studies in Moscow and even before her Aliya to Israel in 1972, Prof. Freedman understood that she wanted to specialize in the History of Italian Renaissance Art emphasizing its Classical heritage. Her M.A. and doctorate were completed at the Hebrew University under the supervision of the department's founder and Israel Prize winner, Prof. Moshe Barasch.
Reception hour: Tuesday and Wednesday around the hours of the taught courses (#7708); by appointment via email; no messages from Thursday to Sunday.
A researcher of visual culture from the discovery of photography to today.>>>
An expert in Modern, Contemporary and Israeli Art.>>>
For an appointment, contact: milly.heyd@mail.huji.ac.il
A researcher into the art and theory of art and architecture in the Renaissance and the early Modern period.>>>
Dr. Kantor-Kazovsky wrote her doctorate at the Hebrew University, under the supervision of Prof. Moshe Barasch, on the artist and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Antiquarian culture in Rome in the 18th century. Recently she has also been researching and writing on the cultural Cold War and the development of Modernism in Russia in the second half of the 20th century.
Reception hour: Tuesday 17:15-18:15 by previous appointment.
A scholar of Medieval Art.>>>