prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History

Head, Centre for Early Medieval Studies

correspondence Address:
Arna Nováka 1/1, 602 00 Brno

office: bldg. K/119
Veveří 470/28
602 00 Brno

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Field of study: History of art

Vessels of Salvation: The Reception and Uses of Late Antique Ivory Pyxides (4th–7th centuries CE) with Christian Decorations – ongoing study
Dividing plebs Dei: Ritual and Social Hierarchy of Early Christian Basilicas in the West (4th-6th centuries) and the Rite of Christian Initiation – ongoing study
Dmitrij Vlasevič Ajnalov – ongoing study
Early Medieval Art in Sardinia (6th-10th Century) – ongoing study
The Vachutian Patronage and The Sacralization of Landscape in 13th Century Armenia: K'asakhi Vank'er and other instances – ongoing study
Altar Space in Late Antiquity: The Creation of Christian Sacrifice. Rome and Ravenna 4th to 7th Centuries – ongoing study
Initiations to Late Antique cults: Isis, Christ, Magna Mater, and Mithra in fourth-centrury Rome – ongoing study
Deconstructing the Dark Century of Rome: Historiography Material Culture and Dynamics of Lay Patronage in the Tenth Century – graduate 2023
Rome 795–844: Ritual Spaces, Presbytery Mosaics, and Stational Liturgy – graduate 2022
'Lapides Omnes Muri Tui...' Use and Representation of Precious Stones in Religious Objects of the Latin West during the Early Middle Ages. – graduate 2021

Between Projecta and St. Agnes: Representation of Women in Rome from late 4th to 7th century – ongoing study
From global to local: the medieval pilgrimage in Tuscany. The Via Francigena. – graduate 2021

Arcae: Boxes with Christian Images. Historiography, cult of relics, uses (4th – 6th centuries) – graduate 2019
Milan without borders. Relics in the service of the diffusion of art and architecture in Late Antiquity – graduate 2017
Ravenna: Sedes Imperii and Artistic Trajectories in the Late Antique Mediterranean (402-476) – graduate 2017