ASSOCIATE LECTURER
Licia Buttà is an associate professor of Medieval Art History at Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, holds a PhD in Medieval Art History from the University of Barcelona, is a specialist in Archaeology and Art History from the University of Siena and has a degree in Classical Studies from the University of Palermo.
She has carried out postdoctoral stays at the Warburg Institute in London (BE-DGR postdoctoral grant (2009 BE-1 00275), and José Castillejo grant (CAS14 / 00441)) in 2010, 2015 and, recently, in 2024; has participated as a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris in 2021, thanks to the "Salvador de Madariaga" 2019 Programme (PRX19/00603) and has taught at other institutions such as the Universities of Barcelona, Copenhagen, Trento, Agadir, among others.
Not only that, but she is the author of Immaginare il potere. Il soffitto dipinto della Sala Magna di Palazzo Chiaromonte Steri e la cultura letteraria e artistica a Palermo nel Trecento (2022), co-funded by the ICMA-Kress Foundation Grant for Research and Publication and winner of the AFCEMS Book Prize as Best book on Medieval Art 2023-Center for Early Medieval Studies (Brno). Is the co-author of El retaule-tabernacle de Santa Maria de l'Estrella de la Catedral de Tortosa. Memoria Artium 31, 2023, El teatre del cos. Dansa, espectacle i rituals a la Corona d'Aragó / Il teatro del corpo. Danza, spettacolo e rituali nella Corona d'Aragona (2022) and editor of Narrazione, exempla, retorica, Studi sull'iconografia dei soffitti dipinti nel Medioevo Mediterraneo (Palermo, 2013), as well as several monographic issues in specialized journals. Also, has also had a number of articles published in indexed journals such as Storia dell'arte, Ricerche di Storia dell'arte, Paragone, Goya, Anuario de Estudios Medievales, Perspective: Actualité en Histoire de l'Art, etc.
Since 2010, coordinates the URV ICONODANSA research group and has been PI of the research projects: Trazas y figura de la danza en la larga Edad Media: corpus iconográfico, textual y etnográfico en la Península Ibérica y su proyección iberoamericana (2014-2017, FFI2013-42939-P) and Heterotopías coreúticas, danza y performance en la cultura visual y literaria del Mediterráneo desde la Antigüedad Tardía hasta la Edad Media (HAR2017-85625-P, 2018-2021). In addition, belongs to the interdisciplinary group (consolidated and financed Research group SGR 2021 00970) NEXUS/LAIREM: Literatura, Art i Representació a la llarga Edat Mitjana (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/Universitat Rovira i Virgili). She is currently leading the project: MUDANZA. Mujeres danzantes. Idolatría y ritos: cultura visual e historia cultural de la danza durante la larga Edad Media (PID2022-140028NB-100, 2023-2026), funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
Since 2022, has been collaborating with the Scientific and Technical Coordination, Evaluation and Monitoring Division, as manager of the scientific area: Culture: Philology, Literature and Art (FLA) of the State Research Agency.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8263-0107
Research lines:
The main lines of research are focused on the study of the relationship between text and image, visual culture and the mobility of artists and works of art in the medieval Mediterranean, as well as the cultural history of dance from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
Important publications (2017-2021):
- Licia Buttà, Peregrinus et exorcista: el nacimiento legendario de San Bartolomé en la hagiografía y la cultura visual de la Edad Media, Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 51, 2 2021
- Licia Buttà et Adrien Belgrano, La danse immobile : iconographie et geste chorégraphique au Moyen Âge, Perspective /Danser, 2020, 2
- Schemata, formae e rituali coreutici tra Antichità, Medioevo ed Età moderna, Licia Buttà, Luigi Canetti, Donatella Tronca (dir.), Mantichora, Italian Journal of Performance Studies, 10, 2020.
- Licia Buttà, Dalla Valenza Internazionale a Siracusa: un'aggiunta al catalogo del Maestro di Santa Maria, Urso, P. Vitolo, E. Piazza (eds.) Un isola nel contesto mediterraneo. Politica, cultura e arte nella Sicilia e nell'Italia meridionale in età medievale e moderna, Bari, 2018
- Licia Buttà, "Mudéjar", Islamic Influence or Memory of the Past? Some Considerations on the Wooden Painted Ceiling of the Palazzo Chiaromonte-Steri in Palermo, Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies, 2017, 4