Prof. Dr. Beate Fricke
Professor
Chair of Pre-Modern Art History
- Phone
- +41 31 631 47 44
- beate.fricke@ikg.unibe.ch
- Office
- 168
- Postal Address
- Institute of Art History
Mittelstrasse 43
3012 Bern - Consultation Hour
- by appointment
Research Interests
- Principal Investigator of the research project Global Horizons in Pre-Modern Art, Universität Bern, funded by the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant (2018-2024) (link: www.global-horizons.eu)
- Editor-in-chief of the journal 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und Visuellen Kultur (link: https://21-inquiries.eu/en)
- SNF Open Access Ambassador (https://oa100.snf.ch/de/engagement/open-access-botschafter/)
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- History of sculpture, image theory and the veneration of images in the Middle Ages
- Relics, reliquaries, and treasure objects in Early and High Medieval Art
- Objects as archives of a history of applied arts, materiality, knowledge transfer and trade in the global "Middle Ages"
- Art and Science in the Middle Ages
- Manuscript illuminations of Genesis
- Pictorial space and horizon - representation and perception in the Middle Ages
- Non-Western pre-modern objects in Swiss collections and their provenance