Giulia Anna Bianca BORDI

Giulia Bordi (Giulia Anna Bianca Bordi in publications) studied History of Art (BA; MA) at Sapienza University of Rome with Prof. Manuela Gianandrea, under whose guidance she obtained her PhD in History of Art (33rd cycle) in 2022, with a thesis on "The liturgical furnishings of central-northern Apulia in the Middle Ages (11th-14th century): from Bari to Terra di Bari".

In the academic year 2022-2023, she was a research fellow for the SPIN project "ME.MO.R.I.A." (MEdieval mural MOsaics in Italy: Rediscovering In Absentia - material figurative and written traces), directed by Prof. Simone Piazza at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, on which she continues to work. He is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the same University as part of the PNRR project (Spoke 8) "Sacra Absentia: The lost furnishings of the mediaeval churches of Venice: researching the sources, analysing the surviving elements and cataloguing the evidence", still under the guidance of Prof. Piazza.

She is also a lecturer for Prof. Manuela Gianandrea's History of Medieval Art chair at Sapienza University of Rome, and for Prof. Simone Piazza's History of Medieval Art chair at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, assignments in which she has gained teaching experience.

Since 2020 she has been a scientific collaborator, responsible for Puglia, of the project "Mapping Sacred Spaces. Forms, Functions, and Aesthetics in Medieval Southern Italy" (Bibliotheca Hertziana ̶ Max-Planck Institute for Art History and Sapienza University of Rome), directed by Manuela Gianandrea, Ruggero Longo, Tanja Michalsky and Elisabetta Scirocco.

Since 2018, she has been collaborating with the Istituto Internazionale di Studi Cateriniani (CISC) in Rome for the digitisation and online cataloguing of the series of the photographic fund concerning the iconography of St. Catherine of Siena, kept at the same Institute.

She has participated in national (Rieti 2018; Rome 2021; Padua 2021; Bari 2022; Rome 2023; Ostia Antica 2023; Conversano 2023; Venafro 2024) and international conferences (Farfa 2015; Leeds 2019; IRCLAMA 2020; Amalfi 2021; Rome 2022; Los Angeles 2022; Rome 2023; Venice 2024; Bologna 2024) with papers mainly focusing on the medieval liturgical furnishings of central-northern Latium, Apulia and Venice, and on the lost medieval mosaics in Apulia and Rome (St. Peter's in the Vatican), whose respective written contributions have already appeared or are forthcoming.

In February 2023 she was the organiser, together with her colleague Arch. PhD Arianna Carannante (Sapienza University of Rome), of the research seminar "Costruire ed esperire lo spazio sacro. Architettura, storia e cultura scritta nei complessi ecclesiastici apulo-lucani del Medioevo centrale (secoli XI-XIII)", held at the SARAS Department of Sapienza University of Rome, and is co-curating the publication of the proceedings volume.