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Prof. Dr. Bianca Kühnel

Jack Cotton Professor Emerita of Architecture and Fine Arts, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Departments of the History of Art and The European Forum at the Hebrew University)

  

  

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Prof. Bianca Kühnel

+49 228 73-7364

Raum 4.031

Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Rabinstraße 8

53111 Bonn

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Research Interests

  • Early Christian and Medieval Art
  • Jewish and Christian Art and Iconography
  • The Holy Land and Europe - Spiritual and Material Bridges
  • The Medieval Image of the World - Visual Dimensions of Medieval Science
  • Visual Translations of Jerusalem.

Career

  • Director of the History of Art Department (1990-1993)
  • Chair, The Central Admission Committee of the HU (1999/2003)
  • Head of the Hebrew University's Promotions Committee in the Non‐Experimental Sciences (2004/7)
  • Founder and Director of the European Forum (2005/12)
  • Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1982/7, 2010)
  • Alexander von Humboldt‐Stiftung Fellowship (1983/5)
  • Paul Mellon Senior Fellowship at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (1990)
  • Alexander von Humboldt and Max Planck Research Award (2007/8)
  • ERC Advanced Research Grant (2010/15)
  • The Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class.

Publications

  • Icons of Jerusalem in the European Space (Leuven: Peeters, 2022) (Art & Religion, 12)
  • Projections of Jerusalem in Europe. A collection of studies, ed. by Bianca Kühnel, Neta Bodner, and Renana Bartal (Leuven: Peeters, 2022) (Art & Religion, 14), in print
  • (mit Gustav Kühnel) Die Geburtskirche in Bethlehem: die kreuzfahrerzeitliche Auskleidung einer früchristlichen Basilika, mit einer neuen Edition der Mosaikinschriften von Erich Lamberz (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2019)
  • (with Gustav Kühnel) The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem: The Crusader Lining of an Early Christian Basilica. With a new edition of the mosaic inscriptions in appendix by Erich Lamberz (Regensburg: Schnell&Steiner, 2019)
  • Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500, ed. with R. Bartal and N. Bodner (London: Routledge, 2017) (An Ashgate Book)
  • Visual Constructs of Jerusalem, ed. with G. Noga-Banai and H. Vorholt (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2014)
  • The End of Time in the Order of Things: Science and Eschatology in Early Medieval Art (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2003)
  • The Real and Ideal Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Art, Special double issue of the annual Jewish Art 23/24, 1997/1998 (Editor and author of the introduction: 'The Use and Abuse of Jerusalem')
  • Crusader Art of the Twelfth Century: A Geographical, an Historical, or an Art‐Historical Notion? (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1994)
  • From the Earthly to the Heavenly Jerusalem; Representations of the Holy City in Christian Art of the First Millennium (Rome‐ Freiburg/Br.‐Vienna: Herder, 1987) (Römische Quartalschrift für christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte, 42. Supplementheft)