Michele Bacci - Biography#

Michele Bacci (Ph.D., Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 1999), is Professor of Medieval Art History in the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He was previously research maker in the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (1999-2002) and associate professor of Iconography and Iconology in the University of Siena (2002-2011). He has been visiting scholar in the University of Tokyo, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, the University of Zurich, and the Kunsthistorisches Institut-Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Florence. Since 2002 he is co-editor of the journal Iconographica and, since 2010, he is a member of the international team dealing with the restoration of the Nativity church in Bethlehem. Since 2014 he is honorary member of the Christian Archaeological Society (Athens). In 2017 he was awarded the Hanno and Ilse Hahn price in the Bibliotheca Hertziana-Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Rome.

Orcid-Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1251-6832