My research is dedicated to the historical and semantic interpretation of codified hand gestures signs in Early Modern painting, (http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503584836-1). I study the origins and the meanings of every single chirogram (graphical representation of a hand gesture), as well as the way they combine among them, in order to form chirographic accords. More broadly, I aim to put the pictorial gesture language in the general history of co-speech gestures and sign languages.

Currently, I conduct the project “Following the Festaiuolo” (https://crea.univie.ac.at/projects/following-the-festaiuolo/), dedicated to the multicultural perception of deictic chirograms. Eye tracking methods will be used to determine how beholders with various backgrounds react to simple and complex deictic compositions in Early Modern painting.

Another part of my research interests concerns the digital methods in art history. I am currently involved in the Jacques-Edouard Berger foundation project – the Vasari Diagram – an open access platform exploring the Wikipedia networks of Old and Modern Masters - http://vasari.li/

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