Dr Claudia Giupponi

My PhD (fully funded through the OOC DTP scheme) aims at assessing contemporary theories of art by considering the long-lost practice of intarsia — a technique that builds complex images using small pieces of intricately cut and coloured wood. Although previously classified as a craft, recent art historical studies have discovered intarsia’s relevance in the artistic setting of the Italian Renaissance and its links to the canonical arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture). This represents a challenge to modern and contemporary theories of art, especially the fine arts, from which intarsia has been excluded. 

The research is interdisciplinary, but strongly influenced by contemporary analytic philosophy. My supervisros are: Prof Derek Matravers and Dr Mark Pinder. Prior to my PhD I completed a BA and MA in Art History at the Open University.