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Péter Bokody

Dr Péter Bokody joined the Art History team at the University of Plymouth in 2014. Péter is a specialist of the Italian Renaissance, his interests include gender studies, metapainting, contemporary visual theory and political iconography as well. He held research fellowships at BildEvidenz (Freie Universität, Berlin, 2018), Niki-Istituto Universitario Olandese (Florence, 2016), Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max Planck Institut, Florence, 2009) and the Index of Christian Art (Princeton University, Princeton (2009). Before coming to Plymouth, Péter taught art history at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Budapest, 2013) and McDaniel College (Budapest, 2007-13).
Péter's research focus is the emergence of painting as a complex and political medium in Italy around 1300 and the aftermath of this transformation in the Renaissance. He curated the exhibition Image and Christianity in 2014 at the Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma (Hungary). He has published several articles on early Italian metapainting, and he is the author of Images-within-Images in Italian Painting (1250–1350): Reality and Reflexivity (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015). Péter co-edited with Alexander Nagel the collected volume Renaissance Metapainting (Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2020), which examines self-reflexive pictorial tendencies in Northern and Southern Europe before the Reformation. His current project looks at the political iconography of tyranny, war and sexual violence in the Italian peninsula. His monograph on The Politics and Imagery of Sexual Violence in Early Renaissance Italy will appear at Cambridge University Press in 2022.